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Caring Schools Dialogue continued through publication

Caring Schools Dialogue booklet published

28 February 2008 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

Feb 28, 2008 – A booklet recording the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s Caring Schools dialogue has been published to promote further dialogue.

Children’s needs were at the centre of the dialogue, held in the Free State town of Clarens on November 26, 2007. The Foundation’s Centre of Memory & Dialogue convened the gathering to discuss and debate how schools can become centres of caring for orphans and vulnerable children.

Nelson Mandela corrects identity of woman in photograph

Batshaka Cele, not Evelyn Mase, in Eli Weinberg picture

27 February 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

Feb 27, 2008 – Nelson Mandela has rectified an identification error in two photographs taken by the late Eli Weinberg.

The photographs show Mr Mandela sitting with a young woman, who had been mistakenly identified in several books as his first wife, Evelyn Ntoko Mase. The woman is in fact Batshaka Cele, a relative of Mr Mandela’s second wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.

Frequently asked questions answered

All the information’s there on a new FAQ page

22 February 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

Feb 22, 2008 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation is launching a new Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page on its website.

The FAQ page will help the Foundation deal with the numerous queries it receives each day on Nelson Mandela and the work of the Foundation.

Reflections on dialogue with Syrian student delegation

Lessons learnt by young essay writers inspire staff too

18 February 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

Feb 18, 2008 – On February 15, the Nelson Mandela Foundation hosted a student delegation from Syria and engaged with them in dialogue about the Foundation.

The four students, who won a trip to South Africa after submitting winning essays on Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom, learnt more about the Foundation and were given time to ask questions about its work.

Engaging in dialogue with visitors to the Nelson Mandela Foundation is a priority for staff. Here, staff and the students reflect on the visit.

Syrian students visit Foundation

Essays on Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom win trip prize in university competition

15 February 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

Feb 15, 2008 – A group of Syrian students visited the Nelson Mandela Foundation today as part of a trip to South Africa that they won in an essay competition.

The competition was organised by the Syrian Ministry of Education, the South African Embassy in Damascus and the National Union of Syrian Students. It was open to all students at the University of Damascus.

Commemorating 18 years of freedom

Madiba walked free after 27 years on February 11, 1990

10 February 2008 |

Feb 11, 2008 – It is eighteen years since Mr Nelson Mandela was released from prison.

On February 11, 1990, after 27 years of incarceration, Mr Nelson Mandela was released from Victor Verster Prison outside Paarl, following the relaxation of South Africa’s apartheid laws by the then ruling National Party and President FW de Klerk.

Mandela’s early days in Johannesburg

Photo found in banned book brings an old story to life

1 February 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

Jan 31, 2008 – Mr Nelson Mandela has identified the person in a picture found by chance – recalling a tale of a hidden gun.

On pages 77 and 78 of Long Walk to Freedom (Abacus, London, 1994) Mr Mandela recounts this story:

“I prevailed upon a fellow named Bikitsha, whom I knew from home, to help me carry the suitcase to the front gate [of Crown Mines]. A watchman at the gate stopped us both and said he needed to search the bag. Bikitsha protested, asserting that there was no contraband in the suitcase …

Trip to Tanzania yields useful records

Foundation archivist went in search of material from Mr Mandela’s 1962 visit

15 January 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

Jan 15, 2008 – Ms Zanele Riba, an archivist at the Nelson Mandela Foundation, travelled to Tanzania in late 2007 to look for material on Mr Nelson Mandela in that country.

Best wishes for 2008

Madiba to turn 90 in 2008

31 December 2007 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

Dec 31, 2007 – Mr Nelson Mandela, CEO of the Nelson Mandela Foundation Mr Achmat Dangor, and all the Foundation’s staff wish our website visitors, donors, service providers and friends and partners of the Foundation a happy and fruitful New Year.

May 2008 – the year in which Madiba will turn 90 – bring increased peace and respect for human rights and dignity the world over.

Several identities in college photograph revealed

Three Healdtown teachers and two of Mr Mandela’s fellow students identified

24 December 2007 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

Dec 21, 2007 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation has learnt the identities of some of the people in a photograph of Mr Nelson Mandela taken during his days as a student.