'Nelson
Mandela Day', Noordwyk said, is a global call-to-action for people to change the world.
While highlighting Pakistan's support, Noordwyk said Pakistan provided invaluable and principled support during the Liberation Struggle of Nelson
Mandela, and also assisted South Africa in its transformation process.
As we remember and celebrate
Mandela, his long walk to freedom offers hope to Africa overcoming myriads of challenges its population faces.
Sisulu arranged for
Mandela to study law, and in 1949
Mandela became one of the A.N.C.'s leaders.
Speaking to community members and schoolchildren in Toxteth, Dr
Mandela, 65, said: "We are different, but in our differences there is unity, there is camaraderie amongst all of us.
The Nelson
Mandela Centenary Exhibition opened at London's Southbank Centre in July, attended by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, after various successful iterations of the exhibition around the world.
"We Indians consider Madiba (Nelson
Mandela) to be one of our own.
Nelson
Mandela was born in 1918 to the chief of the Madiba clan.
Various civic tributes were made to honor Nelson
Mandela and in this regard, an honorary poem was read by eminent Pakistani poet, Kishwar Naheed, who has also received the
Mandela Prize for her work on apartheid.
The Nelson
Mandela Annual lecture is one of the Foundation's flagship programs to honor its founder Nelson
Mandela.Every year since 2003, global leaders have used the lecture to raise issues affecting South Africa, Africa and the rest of the world.
Born on July 18, 1918, South African revolutionary Nelson
Mandela would have celebrated 100 hundred years today.
United Nations Information Center (UNIC) would organize special celebrations at Pakistan Sweet Home (PSH) to mark 100 years since the birth of Nelson
Mandela (18 July 1918).