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A look at the personality and the struggle of Nelson Mandela is these days, when the South African leader is about to meet 92 years, a must for those who now advocate a just world. African diplomatic corps accredited in Havana defined to the South African leader as a living legend of the struggle for peace and African unity.

During a symposium held on Friday at the House of Africa, located in the Historic Center of Havana, Pascal Onguemby, Ambassador of the Republic of Congo, branded Mandela as a giant of this and of all time, examples and references necessary for both old and new generations of Africans and the world, in the current struggle against capitalism, and the construction of a world of peace and social justice.

The day was also the occasion to thank the leader of Cuba and its revolution, Fidel Castro, for his solidarity with Africa. Onguemby, dean among the ambassadors of the continent, said on behalf of his colleagues, the joy of recent public appearances by the Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz. Fidel is again seeing a "antibiotic injection in our blood," he said.

Onguemby hailed the decision of the Cuban Parliament to celebrate every year on July 18 as "International Day of Nelson Mandela." The provision, passed the 15th of this month, responding to the call of the UN General Assembly on 10 November 2009, to mark internationally the birth of the famous South African patriot, for his outstanding contribution to the elimination of the apartheid regime in his country, and the liberation and unity of Africa.

A Mandela and Fidel, two of contemporary history, is especially dedicated XVII World Festival of Youth and Students, based in Pretoria, South Africa from 13 to 21 December.

ambassador to Zimbabwe, John Zumba Mvundura, this Sunday, marking the birthday of South African leader should be a day to "remember and work hard" for the future of our people because this fighter then be 92 years old, spent his life to creating the foundations of the national liberation struggle across the continent.

A short journey through the life of Mandela, the ambassador of Ghana, David Sarpong Boateng, stressed his deep humanism, resistance of iron during the 27 years he spent in prison for fighting against the shameful apartheid regime, and the right personal appreciation of Cuba's leading supporters of both the struggle of the African National Congress (ANC), despite the U.S. and England, looked with disfavor the South African revolutionary visit to the island

Meanwhile, Abdellah Laouari, chief Algeria's diplomatic mission, said the support from his country to Mandela and the ANC from first moments of their struggle against white racist dictatorship. In the Algerian nation, Madiba, an honorary title they gave to the elders of his tribe, and which is also known, received military training.

For Rodolfo Puente Ferro, president of the Cuba-Africa, which like the aphorisms, the confluence of Nelson Mandela with José Martí, is imposed. Since its strength in jail, Madiba showed that "a just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army."

sentenced the Cuban National Hero "man is more than white, more than mulatto, more than black." Mandela, in his plea defense when he went to trial for opposing the white dictatorship, said the struggle against white domination and black "is an ideal which I hope to live. But it is also an ideal for which I am prepared to die. "

that morning full of memories was also a worthy evocation of Patrice Lumumba, Agostinho Neto, Samora Machel, Amilcar Cabral, Sekou Toure, Kwame Nkrumah, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Oliver Tambo, Walter Susulu, Pierre Mulele, Kenneth Kaunda and other leaders African spears broke their homelands and the unity of the continent.

After the symposium presented the novel the narrator and essayist South African Nadine Gordimer (Nobel Prize in Literature 1991), Capricho nature, deals with the upheavals caused by his people because of apartheid and the many forms of resistance to the racist regime.

The image, taken by Raul Pupo, photojournalist of the Cuban newspaper Juventud Rebelde , shown from left to right, Puente Ferro, Pascal Onguemby (Republic of the Congo), Abdellah Laouari (Algeria), John Zumba Mvundura (Zimbabwe) .