The Dialogue Programme

About the Dialogue Programme

The Nelson Mandela Foundation seeks to contribute to a just society by promoting the vision and work of its Founder and convening dialogue around critical social issues. 

Our Founder, Mr Nelson Mandela, based his entire life on the principle of dialogue and the art of listening and speaking to others; it is also the art of getting others to listen and speak to each other. 

Drawing on the contribution that he, his colleagues and his comrades made towards creating our fledgling democracy, the NMF’s Centre of Memory and Dialogue encourages people to enter into dialogue – often about difficult subjects – in order to address the challenges we face today. 

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Dr Makaziwe Mandela

In Conversation With Makaziwe Mandela

April 25, 2008 – In the third of our “In Conversation With” series to commemorate Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday, Tara Turkington interviews Dr Makaziwe Mandela, daughter of Nelson Mandela and Evelyn Mase.

Professor Ali Mazuri

In Conversation With Ali Mazrui

March 30, 2008 – In the second of our “In Conversation With” series to commemorate Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday, Ali Mazrui talks with Tara Turkington about racial and religious intolerance, and current-day politics in the United States, Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa.

The Dignity and Justice for All booklet

Foundation publishes human rights dialogue booklet

March 27, 2008 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation has just published a booklet recording the Human Rights Lecture and Roundtable Discussion held in conjunction with the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNOHCHR) on December 10, 2007.

Some of the audience at the dialogue

Veteran activists remember apartheid trial

March 14, 2008 – Three of Nelson Mandela’s co-trialists in the Defiance, Treason and Rivonia Trials in the 1950s and 1960s shared their memories of standing trial in South Africa for fighting against apartheid this afternoon.

Their memories were supplemented by recollections from Swedish activists who supported them morally and financially, in a dialogue at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg entitled “The Sweden and the South African Liberation Struggle ‒ Legal Aid in Perspective”.

Rural businesswoman inspires success in others

March 8, 2008 – “At some time, African women need to write their stories. The first of those stories will be Ma Qwabe’s,” said MC Sibongile Mkhabela at the event to mark International Women’s Day held today at the Presidential Guesthouse in Pretoria as she introduced businesswoman and community leader Agnes Qwabe.

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