Music Stars Perform to Support Mandela AIDS Drive

[Rose Siding]

GEORGE, South Africa (Reuters) - Nelson Mandela joined movie and music stars on Saturday at an international concert to raise funds for women in South Africa suffering from HIV/AIDS.

Film star Will Smith was master of ceremonies, and Annie Lennox and Queen were among those entertaining more than 15,000 fans sprawled across the lawns of the exclusive Fancourt golf estate near George, about 250 miles from Cape Town.

Mandela, 86, was given a thunderous reception when he joined the crowd — many of them youths brought in from a nearby township — at the concert, named 46664 after Mandela's prison number during his 27 years in apartheid-era jails.

"I would love to enjoy the peace and quiet of retirement, but I know that like many of you, I cannot rest easily while our beloved continent is ravaged by a deadly epidemic," said Mandela, who has retired from public life but launched the 46664 drive to raise funds for live-prolonging anti-retroviral drugs....

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=596207

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1. Good for them..using their

talent and good hearts to reach out to victims of Aids in South Africa.