News – Exhibitions

Remember Africa, remember Sobukwe exhibition in photos

Exhibition honours Robert Sobukwe, an icon of the anti-apartheid Struggle

February 26, 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

February 26, 2011 – This week, a photographic exhibition entitled Remember Africa, remember Sobukwe, which honours anti-apartheid activist Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, opened at the Nelson Mandela Foundation.

Remember Africa, remember Sobukwe – a photo essay

The life and times of Robert Sobukwe told through a photographic exhibition

February 25, 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

February 25, 2011 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation, in collaboration with the Robert Sobukwe Trust, officially opened a photographic exhibition entitled Remember Africa, remember Sobukwe, which honours anti-apartheid activist Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe.

The exhibition is on display at the Nelson Mandela Foundation offices in Houghton.

Jacob Dlamini’s address at the launch of the Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe exhibition

Embittered Histories: The Other Sharpeville and the Making of South African Pasts

February 25, 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

February 25, 2011 – Established author and historian Jacob Dlamini was a keynote speaker last night at the launch of the Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe exhibition at the Nelson Mandela Foundation offices.

Robert Sobukwe exhibition launches at the Nelson Mandela Foundation

Sobukwe’s oft-uttered phrase “Remember Africa” offers starting point for dialogue

February 24, 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Dialogue for Justice

February 24, 2011 – The Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe exhibition launch this evening, hosted by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, marks the opening of the 10th in a series of exhibitions created by the organisation as a means of engaging members of the public in open dialogue.

Cyril Ramaphosa’s address at opening of Nelson Mandela exhibitions

Ramaphosa’s keynote address delivered on the eve of the 20th anniversary of Mr Mandela’s release from prison

February 17, 2010 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

February 17, 2010 – Two major exhibitions, Mandela: Character, comrade, leader, prisoner, negotiator, statesman; and Drawing on Madiba by Zapiro, opened at the Iziko Museums’ Slave Lodge in Cape Town on February 10, 2010, on the eve of the 20th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s release from prison, on February 11, 1990.

Ahmed Kathrada exhibition celebrates 20 years of freedom

Nelson Mandela Foundation and Ahmed Kathrada Foundation launch exhibition

October 17, 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

October 17, 2009 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation and the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation partnered to launch an exhibition about South African freedom struggle hero Ahmed “Kathy” Kathrada last night at the former Women’s Prison at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg.

New exhibition honours photo-journalist GR Naidoo

Foundation celebrates the work and life of a man who lived non-racialism

October 01, 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

October 1, 2009 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation has launched a new exhibition in Johannesburg. Entitled GR Naidoo: A Generous Eye it celebrates the work and life of GR Naidoo, a newshound who was committed to reporting on South Africa’s freedom struggle and who, himself, lived the non-racialism he worked to help create.

Zapiro leaves his mark

South Africa’s premier political cartoonist pays tribute to Madiba

November 18, 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Publications

November 19, 2008 – An exhibition of cartoons of Nelson Mandela by Zapiro has opened as the last of six exhibitions to commemorate Mr Mandela’s 90th birthday celebrations.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation’s CEO, Achmat Dangor, launched the exhibition at the Foundation offices. Jonathan Shapiro (Zapiro) talked about his interactions with Madiba, both in print and in person.

New, extensive exhibition opens on Nelson Mandela

Apartheid Museum exhibition took more than a year to put together, and will travel extensively

November 08, 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

November 8, 2008 – Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu opened the exhibition Mandela, focusing on Nelson Mandela as a leader, comrade, negotiator, prisoner and statesman, at the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg today.

The exhibition, which was developed in partnership between the Nelson Mandela Foundation, the Apartheid Museum and the Nelson Mandela Museum in Mthatha, is made up of photographs, videos and artifacts, which include the car that Mercedes Benz workers made for Mandela while he was president of South Africa.

Online exhibition marks UDF anniversary

Archivists use posters to recall formation of United Democratic Front 25 years ago

August 20, 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

Aug 20, 2008 – On this day in 1983, the United Democratic Front was formed to mobilise South Africans in the struggle for a democratic, united, non-racial and non-sexist country.

The UDF drew together hundreds of organisations representing “freedom-loving people” and became a vital link with the banned ANC.

Twenty-five years later, the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the South African History Archive (SAHA)  have developed a virtual exhibition of struggle art and photographs of that time.

The exhibition uses archival materials to explore the vital role the UDF played in bringing democracy to South Africa, and commemorates the sacrifices made by members of the organisation, which was disbanded on August 20, 1991.