(20 Jul 2003) SHOTLIST
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1. Archbishop Desmond Tutu arrives with his wife
2. South African President Thabo Mbeki arrives
3. Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands arrives
4. British Businessman Richard Branson arrives
5. Former US president Bill Clinton, wife Hillary and daughter Chelsea arrive
6. Rock star Bono and wife arrive
7. Talk show host Oprah Winfrey arrives
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Oprah Winfrey, Talk show host:
"I have deep love for you Mathiba, deep, deep, deep love for him."
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9. Close-up actor Robert de Niro
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10. Supermodel Naomi Campbell arrives with child
11. Former South African president FW de Klerk arrives
12. Former South African president Nelson Mandela and wife Graca Machel arrive1.
STARS ATTEND BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR NELSON MANDELS
Hollywood stars, royalty and politicians joined former South African president Nelson Mandela at a banquet on Saturday to celebrate his 85th birthday in Johannesburg.
Former US President Bill Clinton, his wife Hillary and their daughter Chelsea were among the 16-hundred guests from around the world at the highlight of a series events to honour the former South African president.
Walking up the red carpet were stars of the stage and screen including Robert De Niro, Naomi Campbell and Oprah Winfrey who came to the Sandton Convention Centre for what has been described as "the party of the millennium". Ophrah Winfrey, the world 's most famous chatshow host spoke to APTN : "I have deep love for you Mathiba, deep, deep, deep love for him."
Sporting heroes rubbed shoulders with former political prisoners, musicians and millionaires.
South African president Thabo Mbeki and his wife Zanele arrived shortly before Mandela and his third wife, Graca Machel who celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary on Mandela's birthday.
While Mandela is respected and admired across the world, to South Africans he is a superstar of near-mythic proportions.
He is revered as a hero who preached racial reconciliation to the apartheid-scarred nation despite the 27 years he spent imprisoned by the white, racist regime.
Mandela, who won the nation's first all-race elections after the fall of apartheid in 1994, retired in 1999.
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