News – Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

Submission on Protection of Information Bill

August 15, 2011

18 August 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

Submission on Protection of Information Bill by Verne Harris, head of the Memory Programme, addressed to the Chairperson of the Ad Hoc Portfolio Committee on the Protection of Information Bill, parliament.

“National Archives are a national disgrace”

By Chris Saunders

18 August 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

Fifty years ago next month, Dag Hammarskjold, the secretary-general of the United Nations (UN), died in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia. He is widely recognised as the greatest secretary-general the UN has had. Most of his last year in office was taken up with the recently independent Congo. That he was also involved with SA has tended to be neglected.

[Video] Nelson Mandela on the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

Mr Mandela speaks about the role of the Centre of Memory

25 July 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

25 July, 2011 – The Ninth Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture was held on Saturday, 23 July, at the Linder Auditorium in Johannesburg. Before this year’s speaker, Professor Ismail Serageldin, took to the stage, Professor Jakes Gerwel, chairman of the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, spoke about the Centre.

Foundation extends condolences to family of Nat Bregman

Bregman was Mr Mandela’s ‘first white friend’

21 July 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

21 July, 2011 — On behalf of our Founder, Chairperson, Board of Trustees and staff, we extend our deep condolences to the family and friends of Nat Bregman who passed away in hospital, last night at the age of 88.

Mr Bregman shared an office with Mr Mandela for three years in the early 1940s at Johannesburg attorneys Sidelksy, Witkin and Eidelman, where they did their articles together.

Nelson Mandela on the eve of his 93rd birthday

Madiba celebrates with family members at his home in Qunu

17 July 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

17 July, 2011 – Nelson Mandela enjoyed seeing some members of his family at his home in Qunu in the Eastern Cape, the day before his 93rd birthday.

Launch of Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Quotations Book

Mr Mandela’s quote book is launched today

27 June 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Publications

27 June, 2011 – The Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory is pleased to announce the launch of a new book Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Quotations Book.

For publicity information please contact Pan MacMillan publishers on tarryn@panmacmillan.co.za or call +27 (011) 731-3440/1.

Literacy gets a leg-up in Diepkloof

Celebration of reading and writing at Vulamazibuko Senior Primary School

22 June 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

22 June, 2011 – The spirit of Mandela International Day was alive at Vulamazibuko Senior Primary School in Diepkloof today. CEO of the Nelson Mandela Foundation Achmat Dangor joined esteemed South African authors and poets, publishers and teachers to celebrate the donation of hundreds of books to the school. African Perspectives Publishing launched the initiative in partnership with the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa).

‘The Axe and the Tree’ premieres in South Africa

Film confronts the themes of political persecution and violence in Zimbabwe

24 May 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

24 May, 2011 – The International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), Curious Pictures and Pivot Pictures hosted the premier of The Axe and the Tree: Zimbabwe’s Legacy of Political Violence at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, South Africa.

“I am prepared to die”

Document recalls famous speech from the dock

20 April 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

April 20, 2011 – April 20, 2011 marks the 47th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s speech from the dock in the Rivonia Trial in which he said he was prepared to die for a democratic, non-racial South Africa.

Mysterious Mandela photographs

Can you help us identify who is in these photos?

7 April 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

April 7, 2011 – The Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory is appealing to the public to assist us in finding missing information to accompany many photographs we have in our collection.