All across Pretoria, businesses, families, celebrities, friends and just individuals all around, joined together to help the less fortunate communities in South Africa. International Nelson Mandela Day 2015 was on Saturday 18 July and was considered to be a tremendous success.
Charity groups in and around Pretoria were involved with feeding programmes, dance classes, cleaning projects, animal programmes and much more this past weekend.
To view what some of Pretoria’s most loving residents were up to, to give their 67 minutes of good will, click through these images.
Pro-Russian militants shoot their rifles in the air in memory of fallen comrades near Donetsk airport on March 21, 2015 | © AFP | Dimitar Dilkoff
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin has seven days after receiving the election results to make his decision on to appoint as prime minister | © Pool/AFP/File | Bryan Pace
A member of a local armed resistance group supporting the Yemeni president mans a checkpoint in the southern city of Aden on March 21, 2015 | © AFP | Saleh Al-Obeidi
Fighters of the Ukrainian volonteer battalion ‘Donbass’ attend a farewell ceremony in Kiev on March 17, 2015 before departing to eastern Ukraine on operations against pro-Russia militants | © AFP | Sergei Supinsky
Fighters from Fajr Libya (Libya Dawn), an alliance of Islamist-backed militias, take positions during clashes with an opposing militia in Bir al-Ghanam, around 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the capital, on March 19, 2015 | © AFP/File | Mahmud Turkia
“Definitely there were three,” Tunisia’s president told Itele television and Europe 1 radio, adding that the third attacker was “still” at large | © AFP/File |
US Marines board a plane to Kandahar as British and US forces withdraw from the Camp Bastion-Leatherneck complex in Afghanistan’s Helmand province in October 2014 | © AFP/File | Wakil Kohsar
The families of a group of British medical students have travelled to the Turkey-Syria border in a desperate appeal for them to return home before it is too late, a Turkish opposition MP said | © AFP/File | Ilyas Akengin
Coffins bearing the remains of French citizens killed in a helicopter crash are moved on March 17, 2015 in La Rioja, Argentina, in preparation for their repatriation | © AFP | Natalia Diaz
Afghan women carry the coffin of Farkhunda, 27, who was lynched by an angry mob for allegedly burning the Koran, in central Kabul on March 22, 2015 | © AFP | Wakil Kohsar
A woman casts her ballot during regional elections in Sevilla on March 22, 2015 | © AFP | Cristina Quicler
A Syrian army helicopter was forced to land in the Al-Nusra Front bastion of Jabal al-Zawiya in the northwest of the country | © AFP/File | Tauseef Mustafa
The dispute hinges on Lufthansa’s plans to scrap an arrangement under which pilots can retire at 55 and receive up to 60 percent of their pay until they reach the statutory retirement age of 65 | © AFP/File | Christof Stache
File photo shows a parade of floats on Nuclear Remembrance Day in the Marshall Islands on March 1, 2001, the 47th anniversary of the “Bravo” hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll that exposed thousands of Marshall Islands to radioactive fallout | © AFP/File | Giff Johnson
Polling station staff count votes after the first round of the French departementales elections on March 22, 2015 in Ortaffa, southern France | © AFP | Raymond Roig
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said a meeting between the government and pro-Kurdish lawmakers to announce a call for disarmament was “not appropriate” | © Turkish Presidential Press Office/AFP/File | Kayhan Ozer
People attend a festive concert in central Simferopol on March 18, 2015, to mark one year since Russia’s President Vladimir Putin signed off on the annexation of Crimea in a epochal shift that ruptured ties with Ukraine and the West | © AFP/File | Max Vetrov
The Golden Heart’s Ball inaugural event on Mandela day.From left: Yots.K_Julie Smit, Linda Nel Director of Child Welfare, Matthew Fincham, Nicole Hoffman from Divine Style. Zumba warm up for Mandela Day at Hirsch’s Centurion.
Utah became the only US state to restore the firing squad as a method of execution on Monday, as its governor Gary Herbert, seen here in Washington, DC, signed a bill on the emotive issue into law | © AFP/File | Jim Watson
A Tunisian policeman stands guard in front of the Bardo National Museum on March 23, 2015 in Tunis | © AFP | Fadel Senna
A phenomenon gaining popularity in the United States involves “swatting” pranks, whereby a call is made to the emergency services claiming a crisis that does not exist, putting a strain on law enforcement | © Getty/AFP/File | Chip Somodevilla
A woman who spent 23 years on death row in the United States over the killing of her young son saw her murder charge dismissed and the case against her closed | © AFP/File | Chantal Valery
Shanghai rose on March 23, 2015 for a ninth straight session to a near seven year high | © AFP/File | Johannes Eisele
Members of the Libya Dawn, an alliance of Islamist-backed militias, stand by a crater on the ground following a reported air raid by Libyan pro-government forces in Tarhuna on March 23 2015 | © AFP | Mahmud Turkia
Boxers Manny Pacquiao (R) and Floyd Mayweather launch the countdown to their May 2 fight, on March 11, 2015 | © AFP/File | Frederic J. Brown
Guinean President Alpha Conde speaks during a press conference in Conakry on March 17, 2015 | © AFP/File | Cellou Binani
Hungary’s central bank MNB cut its main interest rate to a record low of 1.95 percent on Tuesday, the first reduction in eight months, in a move seen as staving off further deflation | © AFP/File | Attila Kisbenedek
Yemeni pro-regime militants arrive to reinforce the southern city of Aden, on March 23, 2015 | © AFP/File | Saleh Al-Obeidi
The Cunha canal, which flows into the heavily polluted Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro | © AFP/File | Christophe Simon
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve (2nd R) speaks with firefighters involved in rescue operations in Seyne, south-eastern France, on March 24, 2015, near the site where a Germanwings Airbus A320 crashed in the Alps | © AFP | Boris Horvat
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (L) talks with German Foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier during a meeting in Berlin, on March 24, 2015 | © Pool/AFP | Michael Gottschalk
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