MADIBA

90th BIRTHDAY!!!

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Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday Mr Nelson Mandela, happy birthday to you!!!!

Here are some of the ways that South Africans are celebrating Madiba´s birthday!!

• All you can eat at Nando's, who join in the celebrations by dishing out food and presents on Madiba's behalf to every citizen over the age of 90!!
• Postage stamps depicting Madiba - intended to be collector's items - were launched by the South African Post Office
• The central bank said five million of the R5 coins, featuring a smiling portrait of Mandela, would go into circulation as part of celebrations
• Eastern Cape MEC for Agriculture, Gugile Nkwinti hand over 150 goats to the impoverished communities of Adelaide, Bedford and Mt Pleasant.
• Eastern Cape MEC for Agriculture, Gugile Nkwinti will tomorrow, 18 July 2008 celebrate the birthday of the former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela by handing over 150 goats to the impoverished communities of Adelaide, Bedford and Mt Pleasant.
• The FIFA-organised celebratory match to honour former President Nelson Mandela's birthday ended in a three-all draw on Wednesday night
• A Mandela comic book
• 46664 Mandela Bangle, the bangles are made with South African precious metals and hand finished by skilled craftsmen infected or affected by HIV or Aids. All bangles are individually numbered and will also be engraved with Nelson Mandela’s historic prison number whilst he was imprisoned on Robben Island.

To wish Madiba happy birthday personally via South African Tourism, go to: http://www.happybirthdaymandela.com/