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Community conversations
Dec 1, 2008 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation has published a booklet describing the series of 10 community conversations on HIV/AIDS around South Africa in 2008.
In his foreword to the booklet, Foundation CEO Achmat Dangor writes: “The 2008 dialogues held in 10 community settings have created a body of knowledge that policy makers, scientists and activists will certainly find useful. Most importantly, these dialogues have helped the local participants to confront that “unspeakable” presence in their midst: HIV prevalence and AIDS mortality. They now have the potential to be empowered and to act decisively.”
Questions now, answers in 2031
Dec 2, 2008 – “It’s an enormous responsibility, but there’s an opportunity to strategically influence the course of the epidemic [HIV/AIDS] in the future.”
Nelson Mandela Foundation CEO Achmat Dangor was speaking at an aids2031 strategy meeting today, aimed at finding ways to change the future for SADC countries with extremely high HIV prevalence rates.
Foundation mourns the loss of Dr Motlana
Dec 1, 2008 – One of the trustees of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, Dr Nthato Motlana, a businessman and close friend and physician of the Mandela family, has died.
He passed away last night at his home in Johannesburg after a long battle with cancer.
Memory by the megabyte
Nov 28, 2008 – The importance of the internet as a digital space to store, source and find archival material was one of the main points that was made at a consultative forum convened by the Nelson Mandela Foundation on Friday.
The forum provided a space for South African institutions having a direct stake in the Nelson Mandela Archive to understand the work of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, ask questions about the Foundation and its work, and offer advice to the Foundation moving forward.
Mr Mandela witnesses handover of historical collections
Nov 28, 2008 – Mr Nelson Mandela witnessed the handover of two valuable collections related to his contribution to the anti-apartheid struggle today.
At the ceremony at his office in Houghton, Johannesburg, the Rivonia Trial records were returned to the state and 100 hours of recorded conversations were given to the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory.
World AIDS Day December 1, 2008
Nov 24, 2008 – The theme for World AIDS Day 2008 is LEADERSHIP AND UNITY!
“Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings are oppressed, there is more work to be done…After nearly 90 years of life, it is time for new hands to lift the burdens. It’s in your hands now” (Nelson Mandela, London, June 2008)