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{{South Africans are marking the first Mandela Day since the anti-apartheid icon’s death with a government call to clean up their country.}}<\/p>\n

Events are also being held around the world, with people urged to spend 67 minutes helping others, to mark Nelson Mandela’s 67 years of public service.<\/p>\n

Friday 18 July would have been his 96th birthday.<\/p>\n

Mr Mandela, who died last December, was revered around the world for fighting white-minority rule in South Africa.<\/p>\n

He spent 27 years in prison, before becoming the country’s first black president in 1994.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, an auction of memorabilia he signed was auctioned for charity, raising about $160,000 (\u00a393,000) for charity – less than anticipated.<\/p>\n

President Jacob Zuma has urged people to take brooms and mops and take part in “Operation Clean-Up for Madiba” campaign, using Mr Mandela’s clan name.<\/p>\n

However, some tax-payers have complained that should be the government’s job, reporters said.<\/p>\n

Other people volunteered to help in homes for the elderly and orphanages, or made blankets to give to help homeless people in the southern hemisphere’s winter.<\/p>\n

While Google has an elaborate Mandela-themed design on its home page, using some of his quotes.<\/p>\n

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