The all star AIDS awareness concert in South Africa will not happen as Nelson Mandela planned. The concert that was scheduled to happen on February 2nd at Cape Town’s Robben Island (the apartheid jailhouse where Nelson Mandela was held for 18 years) has been canceled by the Nelson Mandela Foundation due to broadcasting rights and sponsorship problems.
The concert was supposed to be broadcast on several national television stations around the world, could possibly happen at another time. The aim of the whole thing was to broadcast this concert across the world, and to tell people that the world was standing together to fight HIV/AIDS because they see the impact it has had on human rights,” Nelson Mandela’s spokesperson Zelda La Grange said.
“We could probably pull off the concert…but at the end of the day you don’t just want to have a concert and not reach the aim of it all,” La Grange continued. Hip-hop artists that were scheduled to perform are Ludacris, Eve, P.Diddy( was possibly scheduled to perform)Nelly Furtado, Shaggy and Deborah Cox.
