Nelson Mandela Foundation

Malibongwe book released

December 7, 2009 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation has released a book celebrating the three Malibongwe Dialogues that the Foundation has convened over the last three years.

Malibongwe speakers focus on need for economic empowerment of poor women

August 27, 2009 – The issue of poverty and how it affects women in South Africa was the key topic of the first session of the third Malibongwe Dialogue, held today by the Nelson Mandela Foundation at the Turbine Hall in Johannesburg.

Generations of women must speak up

August 27, 2009 – Sibongile Mkhabela, CEO of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund, said today that the most important thing that needed to come out of the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s Malibongwe Dialogue was to take the discussion into communities.

She was speaking at the third Malibongwe Dialogue, held at the Turbine Hall in Johannesburg on the theme of women’s economic development and poverty eradication.

Women the key to eradicating poverty

August 27, 2009 – Putting money into the hands of women is key to eradicating poverty, but there is a disparity, worldwide, between policies and the practice of actually investing in women.

This was the argument that Ruth Kagia, World Bank Country Director for Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mauritius, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland, put forward in the second session of the third Malibongwe Dialogue, hosted by the Nelson Mandela Foundation at the Turbine Hall in Johannesburg today.

Women discuss empowering others

August 27, 2009 – The delegates at the third Malibongwe Dialogue, hosted by the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg today, were asked to share their experiences of empowering women, following presentations by South African Minister of Trade and Industry Rob Davies and the World Bank’s Ruth Kagia.

Malibongwe dialogue to explore women’s economic development

August 19, 2009 – The third and final Malibongwe dialogue held by the Nelson Mandela Foundation is set to take place on August 27, 2009 at the Turbine Hall in Newtown, Johannesburg.

This dialogue series has been used as a forum for women to discuss issues of political and economic emancipation and how best to support the development of women in local communities post-1994.