News – Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

Make every day a Mandela Day

Official launch of the 2011 Nelson Mandela International Day

28 March 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

March 28, 2011– Today saw the official launch of Nelson Mandela International Day for 2011. Mandela Day, under the theme “change”, is a call to action for people everywhere to take responsibility for making the world a better place, one small step at a time, just as Mr Mandela did.

Nelson Mandela International Day 2011

Official launch of the 2011 Nelson Mandela International Day

28 March 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Mandela Day

March 28, 2011– Today marks the launch of the 2011 Nelson Mandela International Day at the Foundation’s offices in Houghton, Johannesburg. Mandela Day was inaugurated in 2009 on Nelson Mandela’s birthday – 18 July. It is a call to action for people everywhere to take responsibility for making the world a better place, one small step at a time, just as Nelson Mandela did.

Nelson Mandela’s Authorised Book of Quotations

Collection of quotes to be launched

24 March 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Publications

March 24, 2011 – The Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory is pleased to announce the upcoming launch of the first wholly accurate, fully referenced and authorised record of Nelson Mandela’s most inspiring and historically important quotations.

The Google Grant to the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

Statement by CEO of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, Achmat Dangor

11 March 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

March 11, 2011 – Earlier this week the Google Foundation announced a significant grant to further the work of the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory.  This marks the beginning of a collaboration that will:

Foundation releases photos of graffiti in the holding cells at the Palace of Justice, Pretoria

Graffiti left by generations of political prisoners

8 March 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

March 9, 2011 – The Palace of Justice was the venue for the historic Rivonia Trial (1964) involving Nelson Mandela. In 2002 the entire interior of the building was renovated, except for the holding cells below ground level. Mandela and his fellow trialists found themselves in one of these cells on every day of the trial. The walls of the cell carry messages left by generations of political prisoners.

Google to help digitise Madiba and Tutu archives

A press release regarding grants worth R34 million to get more people and information online in Africa

8 March 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

March 8, 2011 – Google has today announced a $1,25 million (ZAR 8,6 million rand) grant to the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory that will help to preserve and give unprecedented digital access to thousands of archival documents, photographs, and audio-visual materials about the life and times of Nelson Mandela.

Remember Africa, remember Sobukwe exhibition in photos

Exhibition honours Robert Sobukwe, an icon of the anti-apartheid Struggle

26 February 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

February 26, 2011 – This week, a photographic exhibition entitled Remember Africa, remember Sobukwe, which honours anti-apartheid activist Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, opened at the Nelson Mandela Foundation.

Remember Africa, remember Sobukwe – a photo essay

The life and times of Robert Sobukwe told through a photographic exhibition

25 February 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

February 25, 2011 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation, in collaboration with the Robert Sobukwe Trust, officially opened a photographic exhibition entitled Remember Africa, remember Sobukwe, which honours anti-apartheid activist Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe.

The exhibition is on display at the Nelson Mandela Foundation offices in Houghton.

Jacob Dlamini’s address at the launch of the Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe exhibition

Embittered Histories: The Other Sharpeville and the Making of South African Pasts

25 February 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

February 25, 2011 – Established author and historian Jacob Dlamini was a keynote speaker last night at the launch of the Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe exhibition at the Nelson Mandela Foundation offices.

Robert Sobukwe exhibition launches at the Nelson Mandela Foundation

Sobukwe’s oft-uttered phrase “Remember Africa” offers starting point for dialogue

24 February 2011 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Dialogue for Justice

February 24, 2011 – The Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe exhibition launch this evening, hosted by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, marks the opening of the 10th in a series of exhibitions created by the organisation as a means of engaging members of the public in open dialogue.