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Making headlines: UN pays tribute to Mandela’s legacy, protesters challenge Zille to spend 67 minutes for Mandela Day inside erected shack And, Kenya's Lumumba says SA will never know peace unless it resolves land question

UN pays tribute to Mandela’s legacy

As the world prepares to mark the legacy of Nelson Mandela today on the 100th anniversary of his birth the United Nations has paid tribute to the legacy left for mankind by the anti-apartheid activist.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres in his video message for Nelson Mandela International Day said Nelson Mandela was a towering global advocate for justice and equality.

Mandela, who died in 2013, was the first democratically-elected president of South Africa and the country’s first black head of State.

Nelson Mandela International Day was inaugurated by the UN General Assembly in November 2009, in recognition of Madiba’s global contribution to the culture of peace and freedom.

Protesters challenge Zille to spend 67 minutes for Mandela Day inside erected shack

Today, about 15 protesters built a shack outside Leeuwenhof, the official residence of Western Cape Premier Helen Zille challenging her to spend her 67 minutes for Mandela Day "inside of the shack, in an effort to demonstrate the protestors’ frustrations at having to live in a shack every day.

The activists arrived with building materials in a bakkie and, within 10 minutes, a shack with two portable toilets had been erected.

Meanwhile, Zille released a statement that she would be spending Mandela Day by taking part "in the annual LEAP Science & Maths Schools Mandela Day programme".

Kenya's Lumumba says SA will never know peace unless it resolves land question

South Africa will never know peace until it resolves its longstanding land question, Kenyan academic Professor Patrick Lumumba has said.

Land has come to the fore ahead of next year's national elections as the ruling ANC grapples with how to transfer large tracts of prime agricultural land owned by the white minority to millions of blacks from whose ancestors it was wrested by white settlers centuries ago.

Speaking at a lecture to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of global icon Nelson Mandela at Walter Sisulu University in Mthatha yesterday night, Lumumba said land was the last colonial question the country needed to tackle, and that the solution was dialogue.

That’s a roundup of news making headlines today

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