Former US president Barack Obama is coming to SA to deliver the 2018 Nelson Mandela annual lecture‚ which is just one of the many events planned to mark what would have been Madiba’s 100th birthday. The Obama announcement was made by the Nelson Mandela Foundation at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg on Monday morning. Obama will deliver the lecture on July 17 at the Ellis Park Arena in Johannesburg‚ a day before Madiba’s birthday‚ which has been named Nelson Mandela Day by the UN. Nelson Mandela Foundation CEO Sello Hatang said the theme for this year was developed in recognition of the recent the death of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. The theme is around renewing the Mandela legacy and promoting active citizenship in a changing world. Hatang those who had delivered the previous 15 lectures had been invited and most would attend. “This year we thought: who can [better to] represent the legacy of Madiba than the person whom we believe took … the baton when he became president of his own...
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