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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — In a speech marking the 100th birthday of anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, former U.S. President Barack Obama will urge youths around the world to work for human rights and fair societies, highlighting the late South African leader's example of campaigning for democracy and equal rights.
The speech on Tuesday, one of Obama's most high-profile since leaving office, is meant to draw attention to values that today are under threat and to rally people in Africa and elsewhere to press for tolerance and justice. Obama is not expected to make any mention of his successor, President Donald Trump.
Obama will deliver the annual Nelson Mandela Lecture before thousands of South Africans and will highlight how Mandela sustained his campaign to end apartheid, South Africa's system of white minority rule.
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