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South Africans honoured the 67 years of former president Nelson Mandela's service to the country with 67 minutes of charity and community action around the country on his birthday on Saturday.
Established in 2009, the day is meant to encourage South Africans to emulate Mandela's humanitarian legacy and recognise the decades he spent fighting apartheid.
All over the country, volunteers handed out blankets and books, distributed toys at orphanages, and cleaned up public areas, before reporting their activities on social media.
His former wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela held a lunch for elderly, needy women at the Mandela family restaurant near the family's home in Soweto, which is now a museum.
Madikizela-Mandela said the day was a chance for South Africans to recommit themselves to Mandela's values, "bettering the lives of our people," as she handed out blankets.
Dozens of elderly women wrapped in coats and scarves against the crisp winter weather filled a marquee set up on a cordoned off road.
"It makes me happy but it reminds me of the past, of the apartheid years," said Elizabeth Khoba, 77, who had just received a fleecy purple blanket. She lived near the late statesman and remembered him "as a very tall chap" who would chide misbehaving children in the neighbourhood.
Retired archbishop Desmond Tutu, who once lived a few doors away from Mandela, described his fellow Nobel laureate's work as "a lifetime of selflessness an example of humanity for the ages."
At the University of Johannesburg, Mandela's widow Graca Machel gave out food parcels and blankets knitted specifically for the occasion.
"Knowing my man as I know, wherever he is up there, he is with a bright bright smile blessing you all, blessing our nation and saying thank you," said Machel.
Mandela died in December 2013.
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