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Media statement on President Mandela

27 January 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

January 27, 2011 – The Presidency calls for calm and restraint amid reports that the media is camping outside a Johannesburg hospital where former President Nelson Mandela is hospitalised.

The Harmony Gold Mining Award scam

26 January 2011 |

The Nelson Mandela Foundation has been made aware of a scam being circulated via email. The fraudulent correspondence makes mention of a cash prize promotion organised by the Harmony Gold Mining Development Company Award Board South Africa and the Nelson Mandela Foundation.

Nelson Mandela’s book, Conversations with Myself, nominated for NAACP Image Award

26 January 2011 |

January 25, 2011 – Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux has advised that Nelson Mandela’s book, Conversations with Myself, has been nominated for a NAACP Image Award, in the field of outstanding literary work for a biography or autobiography.

Nelson Mandela Foundation uncovers new email scam

13 January 2011 |

The scammer states that he has recently been appointed as the director general of First National Bank of Africa and has discovered a fixed deposit of US$155 000 made in 2008 by Dana Kirk, a former basketball head coach for the Memphis Tigers men’s team.

Nelson Mandela Foundation publishes booklet on social cohesion

Community conversations programme on social cohesion captured in print

10 January 2011 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

January 10, 2011 – Following the outbreak of xenophobic violence in South Africa in 2008, the Nelson Mandela Foundation started a series of facilitated dialogues in those communities most affected, in an effort to build social cohesion and understanding between South Africans and foreign nationals. The Foundation has just released a book capturing this two-year-long process, its achievements and challenges.

The office of Nelson Mandela Charity Organisation scam

15 December 2010 |

The Nelson Mandela Foundation has recently been made aware of another email scam doing the rounds.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation concludes community conversations on World AIDS Day

Dialogues hosted in partnership with the Department of Social Development around World AIDS Day

13 December 2010 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

December 13, 2010 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation completed the third and final year of the HIV/AIDS community conversations programme with a series of World AIDS Day dialogues. This year the South African theme for World AIDS Day was “I am responsible. We are responsible. South Africa is taking responsibility,” and the Foundation commemorated the day by hosting community conversations in all nine provinces.

Nelson Mandela Foundation charity scam

13 December 2010 |

The Nelson Mandela Foundation has learnt of an email scam that is currently doing the rounds. The email, which claims to come from the Nelson Mandela Foundation, asks people to donate money to support Mr Mandela’s work.

Nelson Mandela as life-long archivist

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

8 December 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.

KwaMakhutha community commits to taking responsibility on World AIDS Day

Community takes ownership of HIV/AIDS challenges

3 December 2010 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

December 3, 2010 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation Dialogue Programme hosted an HIV/AIDS community conversation in KwaMakhutha in KwaZulu-Natal to commemorate World AIDS Day.