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Scholarship and leadership seal a deal
Sep 2, 2008 – The Mandela Rhodes Foundation today acquired 25.1% of the shares of Oxford University Press South Africa which will help fund its scholarship programme.
Nelson Mandela and the Vice Chancellor of Oxford University, Dr John Hood, signed the deal which will help to ensure that there are “100 Rhodes scholars a year by 2012”, said Professor Jakes Gerwel, chairperson of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation. The Foundation exists to build leadership capacity throughout Africa, through scholarships and training.
Galeshewe Community Conversation
Aug 28, 2008 – “They were crying for help from me and I ignored them.” Words of anguish and regret were the first step towards healing and change at a community meeting in Galeshewe last month. “If you don’t cry, you will fall down on the ground with pain some day,” said another of the community members.
Silence quietly shatters in Soshanguve
Aug 27, 2008 – Breaking the silence by telling a roomful of people that you’re HIV-positive, in a community that still vilifies those who are positive, requires an enormous amount of courage.
This is precisely what happened today in Soshanguve, a large township outside Tshwane, when members of the community convened as part of the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s Community Conversation series. The series has visited a number of communities throughout the country to discuss the issues surrounding HIV/AIDS.
The aim of the Community Conversations is to provide a safe space and platform for people to discuss the particular challenges they face around HIV/AIDS and to try to find ways forward together.
Nelson Mandela meets with U-12 soccer team
Aug 27, 2008 – Nelson Mandela today met young South African soccer champions from Bree Primary School in Mayfair, Johannesburg, ahead of their trip to France to represent South Africa.
The 15 members of the Danone Under-12 team met Mr Mandela at his offices in Johannesburg.
Women unite to accept responsibility
Aug 22, 2008 – Women need to empower one another, to raise themselves and society as a whole. This was the message from the Malibongwe Dialogue held at the Sandton Convention Centre this morning.
Women of different ages and walks of life from all over South Africa joined together to discuss the challenges women face in the new South Africa – and ways to solve them.
Nelson Mandela statue unveiled in Cape Town
Nelson Mandela, his family, friends and supporters, braved a downpour to witness the unveiling of a statue of him at the prison from which he was released in 1990.
The 3.2m bronze statue weighing 460kg was donated by the Sexwale Family Foundation to honour the anti-apartheid icon in his 90th year.
It stands at the entrance to Drakenstein Prison.