Nelson Mandela’s widow Graca Machel, former U.S. President Barack Obama and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, right, dance as singer Thandiswa Mazwai performs at an event marking the 100th anniversary of the anti-apartheid leader’s birth, in Johannesburg on July 17.
Obama delivered the Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture, urging young people to fight to defend democracy, human rights and peace, to a crowd of 15,000 people at the club as the centerpiece of the celebrations.
Obama has made relatively few public appearances since leaving the White House in 2017, but he has often credited Mandela for being one of the great inspirations in his life.