Mandela to spend birthday quietly

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• Mandela celebrated his 89th birthday with the founding of a "council of elders"
  
• When crises break out, South Africans expect to hear from Mandela
  
• Mandela has given no interview in years
  
• Mandela will spend his birthday privately with family in Qunu, his boyhood village
  
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