Stars perform at Mandela AIDS concert

[KiwiCoromandel]

Stars perform at Mandela AIDS concert

GEORGE: Nelson Mandela has joined movie and music stars at an international concert to raise funds for women in South Africa suffering from HIV/AIDS.

Film star Will Smith was master of ceremonies, and Annie Lennox and Queen were among those entertaining more than 15,000 fans sprawled across the lawns of the exclusive Fancourt golf estate near George, about 400 km (250 miles) from Cape Town on Saturday.

Mandela, 86, was given a thunderous reception when he joined the crowd – many of them youths brought in from a nearby township – at the concert, named 46664 after Mandela's prison number during his 27 years in apartheid-era jails.

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[slum_goddess]

i really admire mandela--27 years in prison, for fuck's sake (if i spent like a day or so, i'd come out like so totally hateful and bitter). oh, wait.