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South Africa's ANC to visit Mandela, do public service on anti-apartheid icon's 92nd birthday

Nelson Mandela's African National Congress is preparing to celebrate his 92nd birthday.

In a statement Thursday, South Africa's governing party said President Jacob Zuma and other ANC officials will visit Mandela on Saturday, the eve of his birthday, at his Johannesburg home.

On Mandela's birthday, ANC leaders will renovate a school in Mvezo, the southern South African village where Mandela was born....

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