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Custodians of memory discuss personal information law

Nelson Mandela Foundation hosts workshop on proposed Protection of Personal Information Act

30 September 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

September 30, 2009 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation hosted a workshop on the proposed Protection of Personal Information Act this morning at the Foundation’s offices.

The aim of the workshop, said the Foundation’s Head of Memory, Verne Harris, was “to determine what impact the proposed Act will have on archival and memory institutions”.

South African political archive gets new home

Nelson Mandela Foundation website to host Padraig O’Malley online resource, The Heart of Hope

25 September 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

September 25, 2009 – The Heart of Hope website, an archival resource which is the product of almost two decades of research by the Irish writer and academic Padraig O’Malley, is now being hosted on the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s website.

African history shines light on community life

Nkomazi community talks about migration pressures, identity and building new relationships

15 September 2009 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

September 14, 2009 – “They need to come and cough out what really hurts them.” These words, from a participant in the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s community conversations on social cohesion, aptly express what the series is for. It creates a safe space where ordinary people can open up and talk – and start to act constructively. 

Nelson Mandela urges children to read

Madiba receives copies of children’s version of his autobiography

10 September 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

September 10, 2009 – Nelson Mandela today received copies of the official children’s version of his best-selling autobiography Long Walk to Freedom.

Madiba’s life story published for children

Macmillan launches children’s version of Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom in celebration of International Literacy Week

9 September 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Publications

September 9, 2009 – To mark International Literacy Week, Macmillan in association with the READ Trust and the Nelson Mandela Foundation have launched a children’s version of Mr Mandela’s autobiography Long Walk to Freedom.

Artist presents sculpture to Foundation

Travelling artwork comes home to the man who inspired it, Nelson Mandela

1 September 2009 |

September 1, 2009 – The first day of spring brought forth gifts to the Nelson Mandela Foundation: South African artist Lungelo Gumede presented the Foundation with a sculpture of Nelson Mandela today.

City of Johannesburg and Nelson Mandela Foundation team up

Mandela Day initiative to help the homeless builds trust between community and emergency services

28 August 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Mandela Day

August 28, 2009 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation’s Centre of Memory and Dialogue met with the City of Johannesburg Emergency Management Services (EMS) today at the Foundation’s offices, to discuss working together for next year’s Mandela Day.

Malibongwe speakers focus on need for economic empowerment of poor women

Micro-financing key to fighting poverty and unemployment

27 August 2009 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

August 27, 2009 – The issue of poverty and how it affects women in South Africa was the key topic of the first session of the third Malibongwe Dialogue, held today by the Nelson Mandela Foundation at the Turbine Hall in Johannesburg.

Generations of women must speak up

Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund CEO calls for Malibongwe Dialogue to reach further into communities

27 August 2009 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

August 27, 2009 – Sibongile Mkhabela, CEO of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund, said today that the most important thing that needed to come out of the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s Malibongwe Dialogue was to take the discussion into communities.

She was speaking at the third Malibongwe Dialogue, held at the Turbine Hall in Johannesburg on the theme of women’s economic development and poverty eradication.

Women the key to eradicating poverty

Second session of 2009 Malibongwe Dialogue focuses on economic empowerment of women

27 August 2009 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

August 27, 2009 – Putting money into the hands of women is key to eradicating poverty, but there is a disparity, worldwide, between policies and the practice of actually investing in women.

This was the argument that Ruth Kagia, World Bank Country Director for Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mauritius, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland, put forward in the second session of the third Malibongwe Dialogue, hosted by the Nelson Mandela Foundation at the Turbine Hall in Johannesburg today.