Improving Mandela to mark 95th birthday in hospital

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MADIBA! A file picture dated 02 July 2005 shows South African former president Nelson Mandela waving to the crowd at the Africa Standing Tall Against Poverty concert linked to Live 8 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Photo by EPA/Jon Hrusa
Former South African president Nelson Mandela will spend his 95th birthday in the hospital Thursday, July 18, but was said to be making “remarkable” progress. As admirers around the world prepared to honor his legacy through a tidal wave of charitable acts, Mandela’s youngest daughter said her father was now able to communicate and watch television. After 6 often fraught weeks in hospital for South Africa’s national icon, that was welcome news to South Africans planning to mark his 95 years. Children in schools around the country will kick off the day by singing “Happy Birthday” to the former statesman, who also marks 15 years since he married his third wife Graca Machel. Meanwhile biker gangs will clean streets, volunteers will paint schools and politicians will spend 67 minutes on worthy projects — to mark Mandela’s 67 years of public service.

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