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In 2009, the UN made Mandela’s birthday “International Mandela Day,” a day meant for service and outreach across the globe. In 2011, MSNBC reports, Mandela was honored by the nation’s young.

“Millions of children around South Africa are singing Happy Birthday to former president Nelson Mandela, who is turning 93 today. More than 12 million students sang a special version of the song written for the anti-apartheid leader before class started."

People are encouraged to spend 67 minutes making a difference for those less fortunate -- in honor of Mandela’s 67 years working for change in South Africa. CNN has one example.

“Revved up and ready to spread a message of change. These are the unlikely road warriors for Nelson Mandela -- a multiracial, multilingual group of South Africans. They’ve ridden in the highways and byways of the country for the past week, doing good along the way.”

Mandela has been largely out of the public spotlight recently, but U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama and her daughters met him in Johannesburg last month to commemorate his birthday.

CBS notes -- this year’s Nelson Mandela Day falls during souring relations between the United States and South Africa.

“Not tainting the day, U.S.-South Africa relations have soured recently over the issue of Libya and have been particularly edgy with the participation of South Africa as a non-permanent member of the U.N. Security Council.”

A writer for The Atlantic says -- despite all the great things Mandela did for his country, South Africa still has a lot of work to do.

“Its vaunted economy has failed to meet the human needs of too many of its people. More than a quarter of its total population is unemployed in the formal economy...Since the end of apartheid, the country has moved from having one of the poorest distributions of income in the international community to having the absolute worst...”

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