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MANDELA DAY: Madiba legacy lives on | Africanews

The Nelson Mandela Day this year is under the theme “Acting to bring about change”. The UN secretary general Antonio Guterres believes that it is important to work together – governments and citizens – to build a peaceful, sustainable and equitable world.

Nelson Mandela reminded us that, “As long as gross poverty, injustice and gross inequalities persist in our world, none of us will have a real rest” end of quote!

So let’s go now to his country South Africa where some of the people there are giving their time for the good of the poor.

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