FILE - In this March 23, 1999 file photo, South African President Nelson Mandela, left, stands with American pop singer Michael Jackson at a news conference in Cape Town where Jackson announced dates for two concerts in June of which profits will go to various funds including the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund. Heroic in his deeds, graceful in his manner, sainted in his image, Nelson Mandela long served as both cause and muse in the entertainment community. From the 1960s, when he was a political prisoner and South Africa was under the laws of apartheid, right up to recent times, when the racist laws of the land had fallen and he was among the world’s most admired people, Mandela inspired concerts, songs, poems, fiction and movies.(AP Photo /Obed Zilwa, File)