Nelson Mandela's birthday will be celebrated globally tomorrow.
Johnny Moloto, deputy ambassador at the SA Embassy in Washington DC, said officials would prepare and serve breakfast at a homeless shelter.
The SA Mission at the United Nations will be hosting a conference where the movie Invictus, about Mandela and the 1995 rugby World Cup, will be screened for university students. SA's consul general in New York, George Monyemangene, will receive the students. (The movie is also being shown by the SA embassy in Prague, in the Czech Republic.)
The deputy ambassador to the UN, Doctor Mashabane, will lead volunteers to paint benches in New York's Central Park.
The Madiba Restaurant in Brooklyn will have volunteers getting down and dirty in a rooftop vegetable patch, which supports a nearby school.
Americans are also embracing the spirit of Mandela Day, with the Shiloh Baptist Church of Washington today hosting a reception that celebrates the cultures of different countries.
Actress Alfre Woodard, who co-founded Artists for a New South Africa in 1989, told the Sunday Times: "It's time for each of us to be Madiba. We don't get to be children forever, we have to carry on his work."
The SA consulate in Kenya has raised thousands for a children's centre in Nairobi.
In Tokyo, SA embassy staff will spend time with volunteers for the visually impaired .
In Brazil, SA embassy staff will work at the Association for People with Impaired Vision of Brasilia. Embassy staff in Thailand will plant trees . The SA mission in Norway has partnered with the Salvation Army to work at a drug rehab centre.
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