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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.
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.
Message book has work to do
July 18, 2008 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF) is to publish an authorised book of messages for Mr Mandela’s birthday.
The 90th birthday celebration book will include rare archival material assembled by the NMF’s Centre of Memory and Dialogue and will serve to raise funds for the NMF’s work.
Nelson Mandela comic book launched
July 17, 2008 – Biographies are about great human beings, comic books are about heroes. And this is exactly what Nelson Mandela: the Authorised Comic is about – a hero.
Launched at the Department of Education in Pretoria yesterday, with Education Minister Naledi Pandor in attendance, the comic book tells the story of Madiba’s birth and childhood, his struggle against apartheid and oppression, his 27 years incarcerated in prison on Robben Island, and his eventual rise as the first democratically elected leader of South Africa.
Work party to beautify school
July 15, 2008 – The Nelson Mandela Institute (NMI), one of the four organisations established by Mr Mandela, is celebrating his birthday by organising a school work party in the Eastern Cape.
Kliptown Concerned Residents plan to deliver memorandum
July 12, 2008 – A civil society group called the Kliptown Concerned Residents is planning to deliver a memorandum today to Mr Nelson Mandela in Kliptown dealing with what they claim to be poor delivery of housing in the area.