News – Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
Books of life
Writers discuss the role of South African biography in understanding our pasts
2 July 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
July 2, 2008 – Whose life story is it anyway? The forces that shape people’s biographies, and the way these stories help us understand our past, were some of the topics discussed when the Nelson Mandela Foundation held a dialogue forum at the recent Cape Town Book Fair.
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Nelson Mandela concert offered music, recruited new warriors
Concert fan went to accept a charge from Madiba
1 July 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
July 1, 2008 – Rochelle Riley was one of the 46 664 fans who flocked to the 46664 concert in Hyde Park on Friday night. For her, the experience was highly entertaining, but also inspirational.
Read her blog post on the concert, published in the Detroit Free Press, and republished here in part, with permission.
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Nelson Mandela speaks out about Zimbabwe
“Tragic failure of leadership”
26 June 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
June 26, 2008 – A specially erected marquee in the heart of London’s Hyde Park was the unique and splendid setting for last night’s birthday dinner celebrating Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday. The private event was held in London to raise funds for Madiba’s global charity projects, the Nelson Mandela Foundation and 46664.
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Birthday messages campaign launched
46664 invites South Africa to wish Madiba happy birthday
19 June 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
June 18, 2008 – Nelson Mandela’s global HIV/AIDS campaign, 46664, launched the South African leg of its “Text your Birthday Wishes” campaign at Mandela House in Houghton, Johannesburg today.
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Foundation remembers Brian Bunting
‘Invaluable contribution’
19 June 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
June 19, 2008 – We at the Nelson Mandela Foundation mourn Brian Bunting, a journalist, author and long-time member of the South African Communist Party and Congress of Democrats, who passed away at the age of 88 on Wednesday June 18.
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Endowment Fund receives donation
Sanlam Ubuntu-Botho hands R3-million cheque to Nelson Mandela
18 June 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
June 18, 2008 – Nelson Mandela today received an early birthday present, exactly a month before he turns 90. Mr Mandela accepted a cheque for R3-million from the Sanlam Ubuntu-Botho empowerment partnership.
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What does Youth Day mean to the people of Kliptown now?
Residents share their views and memories of June 16, 1976
15 June 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
June 16, 2008 – There is a stone outside the Hector Pieterson Museum in Orlando West, Soweto.
On it is a plaque. It reads:
“This precinct [is] ... a place of national significance ... [and] commemorates the student uprising against Bantu Education on 16 June 1976.
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New ways for youth to be heard
Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund organises Youth Parliaments to mark 1976 uprising
15 June 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
June 16, 2008 – As the world remembers South Africa’s 1976 student uprising, one of its participants is urging young people to get involved in discussions about the issues they face today.
“Today’s leadership must lead by example and today’s youth will have clear lessons in what good leadership is about,” said Sibongile Mkhabela, chief executive officer of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund.
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Remembering Alan Brooks
Organiser of 1988 Glasgow to London Nelson Mandela Freedom March died just short of its 20th anniversary
12 June 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
June 12, 2008 –In June 1988, Nelson Mandela had been in prison for 25 years, and his 70th birthday was approaching. Under the leadership of Alan Brooks, anti-apartheid organisations in the United Kingdom organised a Freedom March to call for his release.
Twenty-five marchers (one for every year that Mr Mandela had been in prison up to that point) walked from Glasgow to London, covering a distance of 600 miles, or 966km. The march was seen off from Glasgow on June 12 by Oliver Tambo, Andimba Toivo ja Toivo, Allan Boesak and a crowd of about 40 000 people.
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Nelson Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment 44 years ago
Rivonia Trialists expected the worst
10 June 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
June 11, 2008 – Forty-four years ago, on June 12, 1964, Nelson Mandela and seven of his comrades were jailed for life in what became known as the Rivonia Trial.
Mr Mandela, Ahmed Kathrada, Walter Sisulu, Elias Motsoaledi, Andrew Mlangeni, Govan Mbeki, Raymond Mhlaba and Denis Goldberg were convicted of sabotage on June 11 by Judge Quartus de Wet.
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