JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, July 18 (UPI) -- Former South African President Nelson Mandela is determined to keep a low profile Saturday as the world celebrates his 91st birthday, a spokesman said.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner, who fought the country's apartheid regime and become South Africa's first black president in 1994, would spend the day quietly, "with friends, family and comrades," as his backers marked with the launch of a new charitable initiative called Mandela Day, a spokesman told the British newspaper The Guardian.