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Well, the statue of Madiba at Nelson Mandela Square is all dressed up for the 2010 World Cup. As you can see below he is wearing a lovely yellow football jersey!

It might be something “small” in terms of marketing and promotion but I think it’s a fantastic idea considering the amount of people in general and tourists in specific who take their picture with the massive and interestingly proportioned Madiba Statue.

Good work I think. Very nice.

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I hope that Madiba is taking a day off today. He’s old and deserves to celebrate this day with people he loves and love him (yes we all respect the guy) away from the public hey.

First off have a read over at Virtual Africa where you can see how to take a virtual tour of Madiba’s Birthday Places.

Then below I’ve made a list of some of the posts featuring Nelson Mandela on SA Rocks!

Nelson Mandela features on Time magazine cover
Nelson Mandela – 90 years old with all the praise
Send Madiba birthday wishes
South African “Think to Thank”
Have you met Madiba?
46664 – Johannesburg concert review
Madiba’s humble home – Get to know the man

And for more posts featuring Madiba try our search option.

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Fantastic stuff. Time has such a great reputation and always manage to get their sources to rally around topical stuff.

Visit Time for their great photo-essay on Madiba. I would love to know where the narrator got the information for the piece? Such definitive language use: “Defined his life” “Changed him forever”.

I would suggest that you see more from this particular issue of the time, it’s always a good read!

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To quote Trevor Manuel:

“The coin is in celebration of your birthday, but as a country we will be celebrating your life.”

Image courtesy of southafrica.info and South African Reserve Bank

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I would like to draw your attention to the fact that it’s Nelson Mandela’s month of celebration. Let’s be honest, a man like Madiba can’t merely have a single day to celebrate his 90th birthday.

He held a 46664 concert in London, a friend of mine sat next to him on the plane back from that wearing shorts and a t-shirt and Mandela still spoke to him for a while. That’s incredible.

And now it seems as though the trend online is to create special reports, dedicated pages or homages to the man himself.

I have picked my favourite two and suggest that you visit them.

First off the gentlemen from Zoopy have once again impressed me with their incredible design touch and depth of content. Their Madiba page leaves little to the imagination, everything you could possibly want in multimedia content is there for your to see.

Their dedicated page is filled with pictures, video, photos and you are able to leave your comment to Mandela on the page. I suggest you do that! If you have a Zoopy profile and have content of Mandela that you would like to share be sure to tag the content with “madiba90″ and it will pull through to the page. If you don’t have a Zoopy account, get one.

Next is the News24 Mandela page.

This page screams of class, sophistication and honour. The perfect way to dedicate a page to Nelson Mandela.

Their content is much more historical and educational. You can read/listen to speeches from Madiba, you can view a timeline of his life, watch video, see photos and view soundslides of his past. All in all a fantastic tribute to Mandela on his 90th Birthday.

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For some reason there has been no publicity around this neat little website.

As many of you might know Nelson Mandela is turning 90 this year and the race is one to send him birthday wishes!

At the moment Tanzania is topping the charts with the most birthday wishes sent. South Africa is up there, but lagging behind and I think that we all need to show support for the man and his legacy. Go ahead, send him a wish.

And, and by the way, if you do send in your birthday greetings you will be rewarded with a free music download… Queen, ofcourse.

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I had an interesting debate with some friends a few days back. Out of five of us present, four of us had met Nelson Mandela.

I am really interested to find out how many people i know, or read this blog or know of who have met Madiba.

Personally I have met the incredible man 5 times and said a speech in front of and for him and 4000 people. That was a wonderful achievement for me.

There are people around the world whose last wish is to meet the man and I have. Have you?

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After some searching on YouTube I managed to find a video of Madiba’s speech at 46664. Here it is in all it’s astounding glory:

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Yes, it’s true. Live have been confirmed as another international act to play at Nelson Mandela’s 46664 concert. The concert will be held on the 1st of December at Ellis Park in Johannesburg.

For more info on the bands click here.

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