Nelson Mandela will take his "46664" campaign against Aids to the Arctic Circle this week to awaken youth in the world's far north to the disease that has ravaged sub-Saharan Africa.
"It will be the first concert on such a scale to take place in the Nordic region and has been deliberately sited to provide a platform ... to deliver a message to the youth of the northern hemisphere that the HIV/Aids threat now exists on their doorstep," organisers said.
A host of international stars, including Annie Lennox, former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant and Peter Gabriel will perform under the midnight sun in the third Mandela Aids concert in Tromsoe, northern Norway, on Saturday.
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Mandela launched the campaign - named "46664" after his prison number - in 2003 to raise funds for the battle against an epidemic that has hit Africa harder than anywhere else.
He has since hosted two 46664 concerts - one in Cape Town and one in George - and hopes now to spread further afield the message that there is an urgent need to fight HIV/Aids on the world's poorest continent and among the youth of the former Soviet states where millions of lives are in danger.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner, who is to leave for Norway today, also plans to use the concert to send a message to the leaders of the G8 group of industrialised countries who will meet in Scotland in July, that more needs to be done to fight the disease. - Reuters
- This article was originally published on page 2 of Cape Argus on June 07, 2005
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