News – Memory

Nelson Mandela’s authorised book of quotations published in Spanish

Spanish version is now available on Amazon

February 14, 2012 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Publications

Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations has been published in Spanish. The book titled Nelson Mandela Por Si Mismo has been published by Plataforma Editorial in association with PQ Blackwell.

Nelson Mandela’s authorised book of quotations published in French

September 07, 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Publications

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

Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory interventions

August 18, 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

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

August 18, 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

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

August 15, 2011

August 18, 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

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”

By Chris Saunders

August 18, 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

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

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.