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Resources in record time
April 16, 2008 – What do hummingbirds and records management have in common?
Here’s how: Hummingbirds quickly extract the rich nutrients they need while on the move. Similarly, the best records management systems are able to extract the necessary resources while the organisation continues its work.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation uses an electronic document and records management system called Hummingbird to manage the documents generated by the organisation daily.
Foundation honours the memory of Chris Hani
April 9, 2008 – We at the Nelson Mandela Foundation join the rest of our nation in honouring the memory of the late Martin Thembisile “Chris” Hani who was gunned down outside his home 15 years ago.
Young and energetic, Chris Hani had a bright future in the post-apartheid South Africa he was helping to build. But this future ended on the morning of 10 April 1993 when at the age of 50, he was shot and killed by a right-wing immigrant. Thanks to a quick-thinking neighbour the assailant was soon arrested.
My Way Foundation honours Nelson Mandela
April 1, 2008 - In the town of Hagenbrunn, Austria, an outdoor artwork a kilometre long is open, 24 hours a day, for people to visit. Its purpose is to encourage them to reflect on their way in life.
Commemorating Human Rights Day, 2008
March 21, 2008 – “… it is important that the legal system itself be made affordable, accessible and efficient. The most elegantly drafted Human Rights are worth nothing if only the wealthy can enforce them or if remedies are subject to inordinate delays.”
– Address by President Nelson Mandela to the Workshop for Human Rights Education (Durban, September 1994)
As we mark Human Rights Day on 21 March, 2008, 14 years after our country’s first truly democratic elections, we should indeed celebrate what we have achieved since then. For example, our country’s Constitution is one of the most progressive anywhere in the world.
Perhaps we should also pause to reflect on Nelson Mandela’s words in 1994. South Africa’s freedom did not come to us as a perfect gift, complete and eternal. It was worked at over years, even decades. Now, translating into reality elegant words and noble intentions, a reality that touches and enriches the lives of all South Africans, is going to require an effort from all of us.
Canadian educators visit Foundation
March 20, 2008 – A delegation of 25 Canadian educators who are passionate about South Africa and helping children realise their dreams visited the Nelson Mandela Foundation this week to learn more about the work of the Foundation’s Memory and Dialogue programmes.
Foundation remembers Robert Sobukwe
Feb 28, 2007 – Today the Nelson Mandela Foundation marks the 30th anniversary of the death of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe. This great South African was the first leader of the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) and a former Robben Island prisoner.
Nelson Mandela, in Long Walk to Freedom, wrote: “The founders of the PAC were all well known to me. Robert Sobukwe was an old friend. He was the proverbial gentleman and scholar (his colleagues called him ‘Prof’). His consistent willingness to pay the penalty for his principles earned my enduring respect.”