4 August, 2011 – PEPtxt is a mobile messaging service that aims to assist South Africans in communicating with their friends and family at no cost. On PEPtxt, a group titled “Support for Madiba” was set up as a platform from which users were given the opportunity to send birthday messages to Nelson Mandela.
The group honours the work that Nelson Mandela has done for South Africa and also aims to educate people about causes initiated by the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory. The group was inundated with birthday messages for Mr Mandela from people across South Africa and gathered an overwhelming 12 000 texts within just two weeks!
To view the texts sent, please download and search the following document.