The Memory Programme

About the Memory Programme

Memory resources documenting the life and times of Mr Nelson Mandela are to be found in an extraordinary range of locations, both within South Africa and internationally.

These resources are embedded in various legal and other jurisdictions.

The Memory Programme provides a unique facility which allows people access to this history.

Nelson Mandela’s authorised book of quotations published in French

7 September, 2011 – Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations has been published in French. The French version of the book Pensees Pour Moi-Meme: Le Livre Autorise de Citations is published by Editions de la Martiniere in association with PQ Blackwell.

The Protection of Information Bill

In the last three years the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory has made a number of interventions in relation to the Protection of Information Bill.

Recommendations in respect of the Protection of Information Bill

The dramatic surgery that the Protection of Information Bill has undergone during the course of the Parliamentary process has meant that it is now close to being an official secrets law of more or less conventional scope. Such a law must strike a balance between, on the one hand, the principle of state security and the necessity to protect the inhabitants of the country against harm, and on the other hand, the countervailing principles of freedom of information, freedom of the media and the constitutional obligations of governmental openness and transparency.

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Funding for the Memory Programme was generously provided by the Flanders Government in cooperation with UNESCO

Recent Publications

: Truth, Reconciliation and Transparency in South Africa and Kenya: Lessons Learned; The booklet details the outcomes and projected findings of a collaborative workshop held by The Goethe-Institut, in association with the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, for stakeholders in the Kenyan Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) and archivists and historians with experience of South Africa’s TRC.