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A new campaign has been launched by the Mandela family in memory of Nelson Mandela’s great-granddaughter Zenani Mandela, who died in a car crash, the family said on Wednesday.

The Zenani Campaign, to be led by Zenani’s mother Zoleka Mandela and grandmother Zindzi Mandela, aimed to improve road safety for children, the family said in a statement.

The campaign was unveiled in New York with mayor Michael Bloomberg and would contribute to the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety, especially in developing countries. New York is currently hosting the Commission for Global Road Safety.

Zenani Mandela was killed on June 11, 2010, when the car she was in hit a steel barrier along the M1 north in Johannesburg.

The campaign was also a Mandela Day initiative in honour of former president Nelson Mandela’s birthday. Members of the public were encouraged to wear the Zenani wristband and to call for better child road safety.

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Thu Jun 20 01:48:11 SAST 2013 ::

May 2, 2012

MsKinkyakaKamaSutra

Mhhh, it was Mandela Day now it is going to be (Zanani) Mandela Road Safety Day/Week/Month/Year


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May 2, 2012

TKay

Good for them
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May 2, 2012

iPhone4

MsKinkyakaKamaSutra

lol my thought exactly. Did they fail to launch it here or it's coz they know overseas if they say the name Madiba even the bee jumps and sponsor? Has Zindzi paid up her dept for her house?
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May 2, 2012

Abdulla-Saleeh

If they care so much about the safety of children maybe they should set one up in the name of Stompie Seipei.
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May 2, 2012

MsKinkyakaKamaSutra

@iPhone4

It is just getting too much....... how many kids have di.ed on the road.... but now that it is one of their own, the whole world must "be taught" about road safety.........

Not wishing ev.il on the fa.mily, with the r.ape crisis on our hands, what if ................................... maybe then it will be taken seriously
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May 2, 2012

Kasiologist

It laways takes a tragic thing for the who's who's of the country for an issue to be taken seriously. We will start to take things with a pinch of salt when pressing issues are addressed on a "It happened to us so it is real" basis.
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May 2, 2012

candilious

@MsKinkyakaKamaSutra- You hav a valid point
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May 2, 2012

Papage

Maybe only now Drivers will listen.
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May 2, 2012

MOSWA

she a mandela so what get use to it*blind*
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May 2, 2012

Chillis

I bet the Mandela females don't like to part with this surname when it comes to marriage neh,,, And those eyeing the boys, yoh they probably fighting tooth and nail just to have thier last names as MANDELA, yoh! What a name.....
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