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Michelle Obama visits the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

21 June 2011 |

21 June, 2011 – The United States First Lady Michelle Obama today visited the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory in Johannesburg on the first leg of her trip to South Africa and Botswana.

Third Mandela International Day launch

20 June 2011 |

20 June, 2011 – Today saw the third official launch of Mandela International Day, which takes place annually on July 18, Mr Nelson Mandela’s birthday. The launch, which was held at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, saw Foundation Trustee Tokyo Sexwale give a keynote address, and words from Foundation Chairman Professor Jakes Gerwel, amongst others.

Ambassador of Thailand gives donation to support the work of the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

17 June 2011 |

Today His Excellency Mr Tharit Charungvat, Ambassador of Thailand to South Africa visited the Nelson Mandela Foundation to hand over a donation in support of the work of the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory.

Protection of Information Bill

Briefing Document released

17 June 2011 |

17 June, 2011 - On 8 June 2011 the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and the University of the Witwatersrand co-convened a dialogue between structures of the state and of civil society about the Protection of Information Bill in relation to other legislation. Read more

Exhibition opening: In Pursuit of Liberty: Legality vs. Justice

15 June 2011 |

15 June, 2011 Tuesday saw the opening of a new exhibition to mark 50 years since the formation of the Umkhonto weSizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress. -   In Pursuit of Liberty: Legality vs. Justice was was launched at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in association with Pambili Productions and South African History Online (SAHO).

Mandela International Day 2011 Launch

15 June 2011 |

15 June, 2011 – You are invited to the third Nelson Mandela Day 2011 media event, which takes place on Monday 20th of June at 11h00. Nelson Mandela Day was launched in 2009 on Nelson Mandela’s birthday – 18th July –  as a call to action for people everywhere to take responsibility for making the world a better place, one small step at a time, just as Nelson Mandela did.

Len Sak exhibition launches online

Digitised cartoons from 1990 - 1994 hosted on Foundation website

14 June 2011 |

14 June, 2011 – Today sees the launch of an online collection of Len Sak’s cartoons on the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s website. The cartoon collection, aptly titled “South Africa’s transition to democracy”, is a collection of some 70 editorial cartoons created by Len Sak during the period 1990 – 1994, a tumultuous time in the country’s political history.

Nelson Mandela Foundation publishes final 2010 community conversations booklet

14 June 2011 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

14 June, 2011 –  In 2007, the Nelson Mandela Foundation launched the community conversations programme, with the aim of facilitating discussions around the “burning issues” that concerned communities across the country. HIV/AIDS is without doubt one of the most serious challenges the country faces today, and this became the focus of the community conversations programme.

Speech at Albertina Sisulu’s funeral by Nelson Mandela, delivered by his wife, Graça Machel

11 June 2011 |

11 June 2011

Ntsiki, dear Sister

Your children and grandchildren came to inform me of your passing away and instead of me comforting them in this hour of loss and grief, they had to comfort and console me.

Focus group explores Protection of Information Bill

9 June 2011 |

8 June, 2011 – Today the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the University of the Witwatersrand’s School of Law co-convened a focus group on the Protection of Information Bill (POIB). It was designed as an exploratory conversation between representatives of key stakeholder structures of the state and of civil society.  The conversation was informed by a position paper prepared by Wits’ Iain Currie and Jon Klaaren.