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New exhibition highlights lesser-known roles of Walter and Albertina Sisulu

Walter and Albertina Sisulu: Parenting a Nation

12 March 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

March 12, 2008 ‒ “Walter and Albertina Sisulu: Parenting a Nation” is an intimate account of the private and political lives of the Sisulu family during the struggle against apartheid.

Rural businesswoman inspires success in others

Rags-to-riches story of rural women

8 March 2008 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

March 8, 2008 – “At some time, African women need to write their stories. The first of those stories will be Ma Qwabe’s,” said MC Sibongile Mkhabela at the event to mark International Women’s Day held today at the Presidential Guesthouse in Pretoria as she introduced businesswoman and community leader Agnes Qwabe.

Women use arts and crafts to make a difference

Craftwork has potential to fight poverty

8 March 2008 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

March 8, 2008 – Women crafters from around the country showcased their work in an arts and crafts fair at a two-day event at the Presidential Guesthouse in Pretoria in honour of International Women’s Day, hosted by the departments of arts and culture and trade and industry.

Celebrating International Women’s Day

South African women gather in Pretoria to discuss empowerment

8 March 2008 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

March 8, 2008 – Women from business, NGOs and government met on International Women’s Day under the auspices of the departments of trade and industry and arts and culture, to discuss empowerment of women and ways of fighting against poverty.

The meeting was held at the Presidential Guesthouse in Pretoria, and was opened last night by South African Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka. Guest speakers including government representatives and community leaders addressed an audience of a few hundred women – and a few men – who later broke away into discussion groups, where they were able to make individual inputs.

Mandela’s 90th birthday year celebrates diversity of ideas

Plans unveiled for a multitude of activities

6 March 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

March 5 2008 – Nelson Mandela’s charity organisations announced their plans in Johannesburg to celebrate the former South African president’s 90th birthday, which is on July 18 this year.

‘A celebration of ideas’

Remarks from Prof Jakes Gerwel at 90th celebrations announcement

5 March 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

March 5, 2008 - It’s not quite yet the birthday, I must say, before we start singing “happy birthday”.

Where we come from, there’s a superstition that you shouldn’t be wishing people happy birthday before their birthday, so it’s not quite time to celebrate the birthday but it’s time to make a couple of important announcements around this important year and this important date.

90th celebrations events programme

90th birthday celebrations

5 March 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

Sep 15, 2008 - Celebrations of Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday occurred throughout the year.

Events featured exhibitions, dialogues, a book launch and a 46664 concert.

Passports tell a story

Nelson Mandela’s early travels documented by Foundation archives

4 March 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

March 4, 2008 – In June 1961, on the instructions of the ANC, Nelson Mandela went underground and spent many months hiding out in different locations, including Liliesleaf farm in Rivonia, north of Johannesburg – on the pretext of being a ”houseboy” or caretaker. “I had taken the name of David Motsamayi, the name of one of my former clients,” he wrote in Long Walk to Freedom.

In Conversation With Njabulo Ndebele

The Nelson Mandela Foundation speaks to the University of Cape Town vice-chancellor and renowned South African thinker

1 March 2008 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

In the first of our “In Conversation With” series to commemorate Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday, Njabulo Ndebele talks with Tara Turkington on issues including leadership, citizenship, the level of public debate, and the role of creativity in post-apartheid South Africa.

Foundation remembers Robert Sobukwe

Man of principle earned Mandela’s respect

28 February 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

Feb 28, 2007 – Today the Nelson Mandela Foundation marks the 30th anniversary of the death of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe. This great South African was the first leader of the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) and a former Robben Island prisoner.

Nelson Mandela, in Long Walk to Freedom, wrote: “The founders of the PAC were all well known to me. Robert Sobukwe was an old friend. He was the proverbial gentleman and scholar (his colleagues called him ‘Prof’). His consistent willingness to pay the penalty for his principles earned my enduring respect.”