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CBC NEWS: July 18, 2010: Dozens of children went to Nelson Mandela's home Sunday to sing to him for his 92nd birthday.

The 92 well-wishers, ages six to 12, were flown to Johannesburg from Mvezo, Mandela's birthplace, and Qunu, where he grew up.

People around the world have been asked to mark the anti-apartheid leader's birthday as Nelson Mandela International Day.

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The UN General Assembly approved a resolution last November setting aside July 18 as a day devoted to public service and to recognize the Nobel Peace Prize laureate's achievements.

Mandela is largely retired from public life and spent his birthday with family in Johannesburg. Early Sunday, his wife went to an orphanage in Soweto to help plant a vegetable garden.

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"Today is an opportunity for millions of people around the world to look inside themselves and find those beautiful qualities as any human being has and say: 'I am able to make a difference to my neighbour, to someone underprivileged, I can extend my goodness to other people,"' Mandela's wife, Graca Machel, said.

She said that while her husband is no longer so physically strong, "his spirit is strong as ever."

On Friday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called Mandela "a towering figure" who "embodies the highest values of humanity, and of the United Nations."

"His life, his strength and his decency are an example to us all," Ban said in a statement. "He fought his oppressors for years. And then, he forgave them."

Mandela led the fight against apartheid in South Africa as head of the African National Congress' armed wing. He was convicted of sabotage and other crimes and served 27 years in prison.

When he was freed in 1990, he supported reconciliation, helped lead South Africa's transition toward multiracial democracy, and became the country's first president to win in a fully democratic election, in 1994.

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