'Improving' Mandela marks 95th birthday

Updated: 2013-07-19 07:38

(Agencies)

'Improving' Mandela marks 95th birthday

Children hold placards as they gather to wish to former President Nelson Mandela happy birthday at a township school in Atteridgeville near Pretoria, July 18, 2013. Anti-apartheid hero Mandela is "steadily improving", South Africa's government said on Thursday as the former president celebrated his 95th birthday in hospital amid tributes from around the country and the world. [Photo/Agencies]

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