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90th Birthday Promotion scam

12 May 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

The Foundation would like to warn people about emailed certificates which claim that the recipient has won the 90th Birthday Promotion.

Residents map out a way to live together in harmony

Yeoville community conversation continues the dialogue on social cohesion

6 May 2009 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

May 6, 2009– “If a person belongs to a different tribe or party, or if they express a different opinion, it doesn’t mean that they are your enemy. We need to understand one another,” said one of the participants at a community conversations workshop in Yeoville, Johannesburg today.

This conversation was the second held in Yeoville, a multicultural suburb where many immigrants live. It forms part of a series of conversations about social cohesion that will be convened around South Africa by the Nelson Mandela Foundation. The facilitators and community members took up issues that were raised at the previous conversation and explored them further.

Activities leading up to the Seventh Annual Lecture by Prof Muhammad Yunus

Seventh Annual Lecture programme

1 May 2009 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

Please find below a programme of activities involving Prof Muhammad Yunus which will culminate in his presentation of the Seventh Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture.

Prof Yunus is a Nobel Peace Prize winner who founded Grameen Bank. He is an activist for human and women’s rights, a founding member of the Global Elders, an economist, a prolific writer and a champion of the poor.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation and 46664 call for the establishment of a global ‘Mandela Day’

28 April 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

April 28, 2009 – 46664 and the Nelson Mandela Foundation are calling on people around the world to support the creation of an official Mandela Day, to be held annually on July 18, Nelson Mandela’s birthday.

This celebration of Mr Mandela’s life will serve as a global call to action for people to recognise their individual power to help to change the world around them for the better.

Nelson Mandela meets top debaters

Learners from around Africa compete in prestigious tournament

21 April 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

April 21, 2009 – Nelson Mandela today met with the finalists and winners from the fourth annual African Schools Debating Championships (ASDC), which held its finals at the Nelson Mandela Foundation on Monday.

The week-long competition saw top debaters from South Africa, Botswana, Nigeria, Rwanda, Angola and Kenya pitting their skills against each other.

Foundation hosts young debating leaders

African Schools Debating Championships finals held at Foundation

20 April 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

April 20, 2009 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation hosted the finals of the African Schools Debating Championships today.

The international championships, which include teams made up selected of students from a number of African countries, are held annually to bring together the top regional schools debating teams. The competition, organised by the South African Schools Debating Board, has two finals, one a debate open to schools from South Africa and the other a debate contested between national teams.

Foreigner language: sensitising the police and media

Dialogue highlights the need for organisations to work together to avoid fuelling xenophobic violence

9 April 2009 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

April 9, 2008 – A need for sensitivity around the use of language when reporting on foreigners in South Africa was highlighted after a short but intense dialogue held at the Nelson Mandela Foundation today.

The Foundation convened a one-hour discussion, in collaboration with the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), to discuss the use of language when reporting on foreigners in South Africa.

Foundation contributes to truth commission in Kenya

Kenyans and South Africans explore the documentary work of truth commissions

8 April 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

April 8, 2009 – On Saturday April 4 the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s Centre of Memory and Dialogue co-convened, with the Goethe Institute, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and the South African History Archive (SAHA), a workshop entitled “Truth, Reconciliation and Transparency in South Africa and Kenya – Lessons Learned”. The workshop was facilitated by former Foundation staffer Shadrack Katuu.

Foundation mourns the death of Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri

Minister’s contribution in transforming the country remembered

8 April 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

April 8, 2009 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation mourns the passing of Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri.

The Foundation remembers her role in the struggle for democracy in South Africa and her contribution towards transforming the country.

Debate gets a second wind

Dialogue explores justice, rights, race and power in post-apartheid South Africa

7 April 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

April 7, 2009 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation’s Memory Programme, in association with the South African History Archive and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, held a two-day dialogue event last week which explored issues around reconciliation and memory in post-apartheid South Africa.

Over 100 people from civil society, government, academia, business and the memory sectors assembled to discuss the topic of memory and the themes of justice, rights, race and power.