South Africa marks Nelson Mandela's birthday with 67 minutes of good deeds South Africans celebrated Nelson Mandela's 94th birthday with giant cakes, mass renditions of "Happy Birthday" and 67 minutes of good deeds - one for each year of the anti-apartheid leader's struggle against white-minority rule. Above: Lutho Makhalima reads a book to Nobantu Mbhokodi, in Qunu, Eastern Cape. Picture: REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko