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Nelson Mandela speaks out about Zimbabwe
June 26, 2008 – A specially erected marquee in the heart of London’s Hyde Park was the unique and splendid setting for last night’s birthday dinner celebrating Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday. The private event was held in London to raise funds for Madiba’s global charity projects, the Nelson Mandela Foundation and 46664.
Birthday messages campaign launched
June 18, 2008 – Nelson Mandela’s global HIV/AIDS campaign, 46664, launched the South African leg of its “Text your Birthday Wishes” campaign at Mandela House in Houghton, Johannesburg today.
Foundation remembers Brian Bunting
June 19, 2008 – We at the Nelson Mandela Foundation mourn Brian Bunting, a journalist, author and long-time member of the South African Communist Party and Congress of Democrats, who passed away at the age of 88 on Wednesday June 18.
Endowment Fund receives donation
June 18, 2008 – Nelson Mandela today received an early birthday present, exactly a month before he turns 90. Mr Mandela accepted a cheque for R3-million from the Sanlam Ubuntu-Botho empowerment partnership.
Foundation joins call for free and fair elections in Zimbabwe
June 17, 2008 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation has signed an open letter from leaders, organisations and individuals in Africa calling for free and fair elections in Zimbabwe on June 27.
“We are profoundly concerned by the situation in Zimbabwe and would like to join all freedom-loving people who have added their voices to the growing world-wide call for true democracy there and urge others to do the same,” said Achmat Dangor, chief executive officer of the Nelson Mandela Foundation.
What does Youth Day mean to the people of Kliptown now?
June 16, 2008 – There is a stone outside the Hector Pieterson Museum in Orlando West, Soweto.
On it is a plaque. It reads:
“This precinct [is] ... a place of national significance ... [and] commemorates the student uprising against Bantu Education on 16 June 1976.