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Media release: Nobel Peace Prize winners
From all of us at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory we would like to congratulate the three winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Yemeni Activist Tawakkul Karman.
Opening of the ninth Mandela Day container library
8 September, 2011 – The ninth Mandela Day container library officially opened on 7 September, 2011 in Valspan Primary School, Jan Kemp Dorp in the Northern Cape Province.
Mysterious Mandela photographs
April 7, 2011 – The Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory is appealing to the public to assist us in finding missing information to accompany many photographs we have in our collection.
Google to help digitise Madiba and Tutu archives
March 8, 2011 – Google has today announced a $1,25 million (ZAR 8,6 million rand) grant to the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, housed at the Nelson Mandela Foundation, that will help to preserve and give unprecedented digital access to thousands of archival documents, photographs, and audio-visual materials about the life and times of Nelson Mandela.
Children from Nelson Mandela’s villages wish him happy birthday
July 17, 2010 – Ninety-two children from two of Nelson Mandela’s childhood villages in the Transkei travelled to Johannesburg to wish him happy birthday today.
The children, 67 from Mr Mandela’s birthplace of Mvezo, and 25 from the village of Qunu, where he moved to later in his childhood, met him at his Houghton home, where they got to meet him and to sing happy birthday to him.
Nelson Mandela meets the Black Stars
July 3, 2010 – Nelson Mandela was introduced to members of the Black Stars football team and their manager, coach and technical team at his house in Houghton this afternoon.
The meeting followed an earlier one with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and other members of the family at her house in Soweto.
