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Mandela marks 90th birthday

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1. International celebrations to mark the 90th birthday of Nelson Mandela have been going on for six months.
2. The man credited with ending apartheid in South Africa spent the day quietly at his village home.
3. The internationally iconic, elder statesman remains a tireless campaigner against the spread of HIV.
4. Age has not weakened his political drive.
5. "There are many people in South Africa who are rich, who can share those riches with people who are not so fortunate. Who have not been able to conquer poverty.
6. If you look around even in towns, not only in the countryside, even in towns, there’s a lot of poverty.
7. Mandela is hailed a shining example of the power of forgiveness and reconciliation after 27 years in jail because of his fight against apartheid.
8. "It’s a day we should celebrate because we are celebrating a person who’s done such an enormous amount of good for us as a people, for us as a country.