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Nelson Mandela’s authorised book of quotations published in French
7 September, 2011 – Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations has been published in French. The French version of the book Pensees Pour Moi-Meme: Le Livre Autorise de Citations is published by Editions de la Martiniere in association with PQ Blackwell.
The Protection of Information Bill
In the last three years the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory has made a number of interventions in relation to the Protection of Information Bill.
Recommendations in respect of the Protection of Information Bill
The dramatic surgery that the Protection of Information Bill has undergone during the course of the Parliamentary process has meant that it is now close to being an official secrets law of more or less conventional scope. Such a law must strike a balance between, on the one hand, the principle of state security and the necessity to protect the inhabitants of the country against harm, and on the other hand, the countervailing principles of freedom of information, freedom of the media and the constitutional obligations of governmental openness and transparency.
Submission on Protection of Information Bill
Submission on Protection of Information Bill by Verne Harris, head of the Memory Programme, addressed to the Chairperson of the Ad Hoc Portfolio Committee on the Protection of Information Bill, parliament.
“National Archives are a national disgrace”
Fifty years ago next month, Dag Hammarskjold, the secretary-general of the United Nations (UN), died in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia. He is widely recognised as the greatest secretary-general the UN has had. Most of his last year in office was taken up with the recently independent Congo. That he was also involved with SA has tended to be neglected.
Launch of Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Quotations Book
27 June, 2011 – The Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory is pleased to announce the launch of a new book Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Quotations Book.
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