{"id":135847,"date":"2015-07-19T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T06:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=135847"},"modified":"2015-07-19T07:00:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T07:00:31","slug":"mandela-day-twitter-users-honor-anti-apartheid-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/07\/mandela-day-twitter-users-honor-anti-apartheid-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandela Day: Twitter users honor anti-Apartheid hero"},"content":{"rendered":"
The United Nations General Assembly declared July 18 to be Nelson Mandela International Day in 2009. The late president of South Africa and anti-Apartheid activist, who died in 2013, was born on that day.<\/p>\n
“Mandela Day” is described as “more than a celebration of Madiba\u2019s life and legacy. It is a global movement to honour his life\u2019s work and act to change the world for the better.”<\/p>\n
The day also aims to promote acts of kindness that invoke Mandela’s spirit. Social media users are encouraged to use the hashtags #MandelaDay and #Time2Serve to pay tribute to the leader, and to share stories of others who are making a positive change in their community, respectively.<\/p>\n
Here’s what the Twitterverse had to say about #MandelaDay, which trended Saturday on the social network.<\/p>\n
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