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Recommendations in respect of the Protection of Information Bill

18 August 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

18 August 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

18 August 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.

PEPtxt sends birthday wishes to Nelson Mandela

Users text Madiba their birthday wishes

4 August 2011 |

4 August, 2011 – PEPtxt is a mobile messaging service that aims to assist South Africans in communicating with their friends and family at no cost. On PEPtxt, a group titled “Support for Madiba” was set up as a platform from which users were given the opportunity to send birthday messages to Nelson Mandela.

Event at the Nelson Mandela capture site outside Howick

3 August 2011 |

3 August, 2011 – You are invited to cover an event on 5 August, 2011 (from 10h00 to 12h00) hosted by the uMngeni municipality and the Apartheid Museum. The day marks the 49th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s arrest three kilometres outside Howick in 1962 on the R103, the main road to Johannesburg.

Inspiring 1-million youth to live Nelson Mandela’s legacy

28 July 2011 |

28 July, 2011 – The Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and Life College today announced a new programme Nelson Mandela – The Champion Within, with which they aim to reach 1-million youth by 2020, inspiring them to live Mr Mandela’s legacy and to make everyday a Mandela Day.

Nelson Mandela – The Champion Within photo essay

Champion mentality is the root of greatness

28 July 2011 |

28 July, 2011 – The Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and Life College today announced a new programme Nelson Mandela – The Champion Within, with which they aim to reach 1-million youth by 2020, inspiring them to live Mr Mandela’s legacy and to make everyday a Mandela Day.

Announcement: Nelson Mandela – The Champion Within: 1-million youth by 2020

Strategic partnership promotes Mr Mandela’s distinctive way of thinking

28 July 2011 |

28 July, 2011 – Beyond the complex, compelling principle-centred leadership that Nelson Mandela has come to represent, Mr Mandela’s distinctive way of thinking defined an age, inspired a nation and, indeed, the world. So much set him apart – his character, leadership, his mindset, consciousness, and so on. Could we learn not only to DO like Madiba, but also to begin to THINK like Madiba – and so begin to discover or refine our own principle-centred Champion Mentality? Could a generation of young leaders be inspired to think differently – and so shape their own character and contribution?

Professor Ismail Serageldin: Education and the knowledge revolution

26 July 2011 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

July 26, 2011 – A lecture theatre at the University of Cape Town (UCT) law school was packed to the hilt yesterday as Professor Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Library of Alexandria in Egypt, delivered the Vice-Chancellor’s Open Lecture here. Prof Serageldin’s lecture formed part of his journey to South Africa to present the Ninth Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture, which took place on July 23, 2011 at Johannesburg’s Linder Auditorium. The topic today was “Universities and the Unfolding Knowledge Revolution: Preparing for the 21st Century”.

[Video] Professor Ismail Serageldin

Learn more about this year’s Annual Lecture speaker

25 July 2011 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

25 July, 2011 – This year’s speaker for the Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture was Professor Ismail Serageldin, the Director of the Library of Alexandria. Prof Serageldin’s lecture addressed the topics of pluralism, social cohesion and social participation for social justice.