News – Memory

Launch of Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Quotations Book

Mr Mandela’s quote book is launched today

June 27, 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Publications

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.

For publicity information please contact Pan MacMillan publishers on tarryn@panmacmillan.co.za or call +27 (011) 731-3440/1.

“I am prepared to die”

Document recalls famous speech from the dock

April 20, 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

April 20, 2011 – April 20, 2011 marks the 47th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s speech from the dock in the Rivonia Trial in which he said he was prepared to die for a democratic, non-racial South Africa.

Nelson Mandela’s Authorised Book of Quotations

Collection of quotes to be launched

March 24, 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Publications

March 24, 2011 – The Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory is pleased to announce the upcoming launch of the first wholly accurate, fully referenced and authorised record of Nelson Mandela’s most inspiring and historically important quotations.

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.

A President discloses his health status

January 31, 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

January 31, 2011 — Mr Mandela has encountered health difficulties frequently over the years. 

Nelson Mandela as life-long archivist

A look at Nelson Mandela’s commitment to securing his personal archive

December 08, 2010 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

December 8, 2010 – Nelson Mandela is known for being meticulous in his notetaking and recordkeeping and while in prison would always write a draft copy of every letter that he sent in a series of exercise books. In late March 1971 two of these hardcover notebooks were taken from his cell on Robben Island by a warder.

Foreign language editions of Conversations with Myself a hit

Nelson Mandela’s latest book popular in France and Portugal

December 01, 2010 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Publications

December 1, 2010 – Nelson Mandela’s new book, Conversations with Myself, released on October 12, 2010, has taken readers in France and Portugal by storm.