GINûElder statesman and former president Nelson Mandela will celebrate his 90th birthday and raise money for AIDS awareness at a benefit concert in London next month, organizers have announced.
Precisely 46,664 tickets will go on sale for the threehour extravaganza on June 27, in support of the former president’s 46664 campaign against HIV/AIDS.
The campaign is named after Mandela’s prison number during his 27-year incarceration. Expected guests include Robert De Niro, Will Smith, Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey. Meanwhile, members of the U.S. Congress are vowing to remove Mandela’s name from a terrorist watch list that dates back to his militant days in the ANC.
South Africa is one of the countries worst-hit by HIV, with 5.41-million people living with the illness. Mandela lost a son to AIDS in January 2005. (AP)
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