Dedicate 6 minutes and 7 seven seconds to Mandela’s memory
JOBURG - South Africans are called to celebrate the memory of the late global icon and struggle hero Nelson Mandela by getting loud and then being silent on 5 November.
The government and the Nelson Mandela Foundation are calling on the public, businesses and religious institutions to spare a few minutes on the morning of 5 November in honour of Mandela on the first anniversary of his death.
As part of the national commemoration, South African should ring bells, sound sirens, hoot or use loud hailers to call the country to attention at three minutes and seven seconds before 10am – that is 09:56:53.
This will be followed by observing of a moment of silence at 10am until 10:03am.
The time from the onset of calling the country to attention until the end of the moment of silence will be exactly six minutes and seven seconds, symbolising the 67 years Mandela he devoted to fighting for freedom.
The national anthem will thereafter be sung at 10:03am across the country signifying the end of the moment of silence.
South Africans were also urged to wear their favourite Mandela T-shirt, shirt or other memorabilia on 5 December.
Those on social media were asked to participate in a campaign by using #RememberMandela to share their memories of Mandela and pictures of how they commemorated the day.
