News – Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
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Mac Maharaj: In Confidence
27 July 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Mandela Day
July 27, 2009 – The following piece, written by Mac Maharaj, originally appeared on The Times website on July 25, 2009, and has been published here with permission from The Times, South Africa.
Mandela Day was greeted with a flood of enthusiasm in South Africa and throughout the world, with individuals and groups going out to serve the orphaned, aged, ill and infirm.
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Nelson Mandela Foundation launches Promise of Leadership book
Leaders share their thinking on Africa’s successes and challenges
27 July 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Dialogue for Justice
July 27, 2009 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation has launched a coffee-table book detailing the events that occurred at the first Promise of Leadership Dialogue, held in March this year. The dialogue took place at Helderfontein Estate, on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa, on March 20-21.
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Manchester City team meet Nelson Mandela
Footballers sing to wish Madiba a happy 91st birthday and give him a special team shirt
23 July 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
July 23, 2009 – Manchester City footballers, in South Africa to play in the Vodacom Challenge, met Nelson Mandela today when they visited the Nelson Mandela Foundation to give him a special-edition jersey.
As Mr Mandela entered the auditorium to meet the team and support staff, he said: “I hear that you want to shake my hand.”
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Johannesburg school takes up the Mandela Day call
Bid to create safe school environment dedicated to Nelson Mandela’s values and principles
22 July 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Mandela Day
July 22, 2009 – The St Teresa’s Mercy School in Johannesburg has marked Mandela Day by committing to ensuring its environment is safe for its learners, parents, teachers and visitors. The school’s Learners Volunteer Safety Cadets are doing this in gratitude for Nelson Mandela’s 67 years of activism, and are challenging all other South African schools to establish learner volunteer safety teams too.
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Paper Wars launches on Mandela Day
Paper Wars documents the challenges that South Africans face when using the country’s access to information legislation
21 July 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Publications
July 21, 2009 –Mandela Day was not only a day for South Africans to get involved in community-based activities; it was also an appropriate day for the launch of Paper Wars: Access to Information in South Africa, a book that explores the contested terrain of access to information in post-apartheid South Africa.
The Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and Dialogue had provided research support to the book.
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Mandela Day is Reconciliation Day for Atteridgeville
‘We have forgiven you also’
19 July 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Dialogue for Justice
July 19, 2009 – The community of Atteridgeville near Pretoria celebrated Mandela Day yesterday with a reconciliation event, during which South Africans and foreign nationals publicly forgave one another for the xenophobic violence that occurred last year.
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Spirit of giving on Mandela Day
Orphans in Tshwane were treated to a feast of song and dance when they received a donation of over 300 books on Mandela Day
18 July 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Mandela Day
July 18, 2009 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation teamed up with the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) today to donate books to disadvantaged children in greater Pretoria.
Mandela Day calls on people from around the world to dedicate 67 minutes of their lives to making a difference, in recognition of the 67 years Nelson Mandela dedicated to humanitarian work. In doing so, people will honour and celebrate his legacy.
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Nelson Mandela celebrates his 91st birthday
Nelson Mandela celebrated his 91st birthday with South African President Jacob Zuma and the ANC executive committee
18 July 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
July 18, 2009 – Nelson Mandela began his 91st birthday celebrations today at his home in Johannesburg with a visit from President Jacob Zuma and the whole executive of the African National Congress (ANC).
The former president joined the group of more than 90 well-wishers – which included former Zambian President, Kenneth Kaunda – in a special marquee erected in the garden of Mr Mandela’s Houghton home.
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New York gears up for inaugural Mandela Day concert
Events In New York highlight the message and meaning behind Mandela Day
17 July 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Mandela Day
July 17, 2009 – The build up to the inaugural Mandela Day concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York has been marked by a number of events highlighting the message behind the initiative.
The campaign, which is supported by all of Nelson Mandela’s charities, encourages people to continue Nelson Mandela’s legacy by “making an imprint” and getting involved in their own communities – ultimately creating a better world for all. Mandela Day will be marked by a star-studded concert which will happen tomorrow, on Mr Mandela’s 91st birthday.
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Mandela Day is about ordinary people being positive
Individuals have enormous collective power to make a difference
17 July 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Mandela Day
July 17, 2009 – Nelson Mandela famously stated in 2008 that “it is time for new hands to lift the burdens”. The Nelson Mandela Foundation and 46664 have called for Mandela Day on July 18 and are asking the world to make his dreams a reality.
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