News – Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
Nelson Mandela ‘handshake’ lottery scam
10 June 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
An email stating that the recipient has won some money and will meet Nelson Mandela, along with the lottery board, when he/she claims his/her prize is a scam.
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More South Africans use condoms – but women are still at risk
HSRC releases the results of the 2008 South African National HIV Prevalence, Incidence, Behaviour and Communication Survey
9 June 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
June 9, 2009 – South Africa’s HIV statistics were updated when the results of the third National HIV Prevalence, Incidence, Behaviour and Communication Survey were released at an event in Cape Town today.
Conducted by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), the survey attempts to determine the levels of HIV prevalence in South Africa as well as the sexual behaviour of the respondents.
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Clarence Seedorf becomes a Legacy Champion
Football legend contributes to sustaining the work of Nelson Mandela
5 June 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
June 5, 2009 – International football star Clarence Seedorf announced at a press conference after a meeting with Nelson Mandela today that he had become the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s latest Legacy Champion.
He joins Patrice Motsepe, Tokyo Sexwale, David Rockefeller, Peggy Dulany and Bill Clinton, who are also members of a select group of philanthropists who are helping to ensure that Mr Mandela’s legacy lives on.
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Ahmed Kathrada’s book short-listed for award
Foundation trustee’s book collects thoughts and memories from his years in prison
4 June 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Publications
June 4, 2009 – The latest book by Nelson Mandela Foundation trustee Ahmed “Kathy” Kathrada, who is a long-time friend and comrade of Nelson Mandela, has been short-listed for the prestigious Alan Paton Award.
A Simple Freedom: The Strong Mind of Robben Island Prisoner No. 468/64, published in 2008, contains a fusion of the quotations and passages collected by Kathrada during his 26 years in prison with visual images and “epiphanies of his own memories”.
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South African and American students meet Mandela and work on a Mandela Day Student Charter
2 June 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
June 2, 2009 - A group of American and South African students, aged from 11 to 19, today met Nelson Mandela as part of a series of activities ahead of Mandela Day on July 18.
The group from New York are all winners of a competition that required high school students to submit creative projects on Mr Mandela’s life and legacy.
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Foundation gets Madiba great-granddaughter’s stamp of approval
Foundation takes part in Take a Girl Child to Work Day
28 May 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
May 28, 2009 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation has participated in the national Take a Girl Child to Work Day by hosting one of Mr Mandela’s eight great-grandchildren at its offices.
Zenani Mandela, the granddaughter of Mr Mandela’s youngest daughter, Zindzi, spent the day learning about the work of the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg.
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Nelson Mandela visits his former lodging in Alexandra
Mr Mandela meets with former landlord’s granddaughter
27 May 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
May 27, 2009 – Nelson Mandela today returned to a house where he rented a room as a young man when he first came to Johannesburg in 1941.
The house in Alexandra outside Johannesburg was owned by John Madzeka Xhoma, from Cradock in the Eastern Cape, who ran a transport business and owned two other properties.
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Foundation donates books to Johannesburg Hospital School
Children thrilled by donation of Madiba comics
25 May 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
May 25, 2009 – The Johannesburg Hospital School received a welcome donation of books from the Nelson Mandela Foundation on May 22, 2009.
The school, which is situated in the children’s ward at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital (previously Johannesburg General), caters to children who need constant medical care and therefore cannot attend a regular school.
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Foundation launches anti-apartheid movement archive resource
Resource aims to provide an overview of anti-apartheid archival records
25 May 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
May 18, 2009 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation recently launched an anti-apartheid movement (AAM) archive resource on its website.
The aim of the resource is to create an overview of archival records of international anti-apartheid activities.
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Foundation supports International Candlelight Memorial Day
Global Health Council encourages people to join virtual memorial
15 May 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
May 15, 2009 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation supports International Candlelight Memorial Day on Sunday May 17 and encourages people to sign up to a virtual memorial which serves as a reminder that AIDS touches everyone.
Speaking at the first 46664 concert in 2003, Nelson Mandela said: “We are all human, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic affects us all in the end. If we discard people who are dying from AIDS, then we can no longer call ourselves people.”
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