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Club of Madrid honours Nelson Mandela

Former prime ministers and presidents gather to present award

15 December 2008 |

Dec 15, 2008 – Former President Nelson Mandela received the first Club of Madrid Democratic Leadership Award earlier today.

The Club of Madrid is an organisation of 72 former presidents and prime ministers which was established in Madrid, Spain in October 2001.

Our year in review

World honours Nelson Mandela

12 December 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Dialogue for Justice

Dec 12, 2008 – In what was arguably the biggest world-wide birthday celebration of all time, Nelson Mandela turned 90 this year.

Anti-apartheid stalwart passes away

Foundation mourns the loss of Mike Terry

5 December 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

Dec 5, 2008 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation extends its deepest condolences to the family, friends and comrades of anti-apartheid stalwart Mike Terry, who passed away after a heart attack in London on Wednesday, December 3.

Questions now, answers in 2031

Foundation hosts aids2031 meeting to make an HIV/AIDS plan for Southern Africa

2 December 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Dialogue for Justice

Dec 2, 2008 – “It’s an enormous responsibility, but there’s an opportunity to strategically influence the course of the epidemic [HIV/AIDS] in the future.”

Nelson Mandela Foundation CEO Achmat Dangor was speaking at an aids2031 strategy meeting today, aimed at finding ways to change the future for SADC countries with extremely high HIV prevalence rates.

Foundation website to undergo changes

New-look site will be easier to use

1 December 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Dialogue for Justice

Feb 10, 2009 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation website will soon have a new look.

Originally launched on July 22, 2007, to coincide with the Annual Lecture delivered by Kofi Annan, the website is a resource for thousands of monthly visitors interested in news about Mr Mandela, as well as the work of the Foundation and its Centre of Dialogue and Memory.

The new site will make it easier for users to find information, splitting the news feeds into three areas: Organisation and Governance, Dialogue and Memory.

Foundation mourns the loss of Dr Motlana

Trustee loses his long battle with cancer

1 December 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

Dec 1, 2008 – One of the trustees of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, Dr Nthato Motlana, a businessman and close friend and physician of the Mandela family, has died.

He passed away last night at his home in Johannesburg after a long battle with cancer.

Memory by the megabyte

Consultative forum highlights the need to digitise archival material

1 December 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Dialogue for Justice

Nov 28, 2008 – The importance of the internet as a digital space to store, source and find archival material was one of the main points that was made at a consultative forum convened by the Nelson Mandela Foundation on Friday.

The forum provided a space for South African institutions having a direct stake in the Nelson Mandela Archive to understand the work of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, ask questions about the Foundation and its work, and offer advice to the Foundation moving forward.

Community conversations

Starting where communities are

1 December 2008 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

Dec 1, 2008 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation has published a booklet describing the series of 10 community conversations on HIV/AIDS around South Africa in 2008.

In his foreword to the booklet, Foundation CEO Achmat Dangor writes: “The 2008 dialogues held in 10 community settings have created a body of knowledge that policy makers, scientists and activists will certainly find useful. Most importantly, these dialogues have helped the local participants to confront that “unspeakable” presence in their midst: HIV prevalence and AIDS mortality. They now have the potential to be empowered and to act decisively.”

Mr Mandela witnesses handover of historical collections

State receives records of Rivonia Trial

28 November 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

Nov 28, 2008 – Mr Nelson Mandela witnessed the handover of two valuable collections related to his contribution to the anti-apartheid struggle today.

At the ceremony at his office in Houghton, Johannesburg, the Rivonia Trial records were returned to the state and 100 hours of recorded conversations were given to the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory.

World AIDS Day December 1, 2008

WE CAN STOP HIV. WE WILL STOP HIV. IT’S IN OUR HANDS!

24 November 2008 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

Nov 24, 2008 – The theme for World AIDS Day 2008 is LEADERSHIP AND UNITY!

“Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings are oppressed, there is more work to be done…After nearly 90 years of life, it is time for new hands to lift the burdens. It’s in your hands now” (Nelson Mandela, London, June 2008)