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Celebrating International Women’s Day
March 8, 2008 – Women from business, NGOs and government met on International Women’s Day under the auspices of the departments of trade and industry and arts and culture, to discuss empowerment of women and ways of fighting against poverty.
The meeting was held at the Presidential Guesthouse in Pretoria, and was opened last night by South African Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka. Guest speakers including government representatives and community leaders addressed an audience of a few hundred women – and a few men – who later broke away into discussion groups, where they were able to make individual inputs.
In Conversation With Njabulo Ndebele
In the first of our “In Conversation With” series to commemorate Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday, Njabulo Ndebele talks with Tara Turkington on issues including leadership, citizenship, the level of public debate, and the role of creativity in post-apartheid South Africa.
Caring Schools Dialogue continued through publication
Feb 28, 2008 – A booklet recording the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s Caring Schools dialogue has been published to promote further dialogue.
Children’s needs were at the centre of the dialogue, held in the Free State town of Clarens on November 26, 2007. The Foundation’s Centre of Memory & Dialogue convened the gathering to discuss and debate how schools can become centres of caring for orphans and vulnerable children.
Companies can help beat HIV/AIDS
Dec 18, 2007 – Companies in the private sector can do more to assist in the management of the AIDS epidemic. This was the message Dr Mothomang Diaho, head of the Dialogue Programme at the Nelson Mandela Foundation, conveyed recently at Personal Finance/Discovery Health Focus seminars.
Dignity and justice for all
Dec 10, 2007 – Sixty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, how far has Africa – and South Africa – come in converting human wrongs into human rights?
This issue and others central to the protection and promotion of human rights around the theme “Dignity and justice for all” were discussed by a panel and guests invited to a dialogue at the South African Human Rights Commission in Johannesburg today.
Towards dignity and justice
Dec 7, 2007 – In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the SA Human Rights Commission in collaboration with the Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF) and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, will host the Annual Human Rights Lecture and Roundtable Discussion.