News – Dialogue for Justice

Community conversations teams refine their techniques

In-depth training session aims at improving Foundation’s community conversation teams’ CCE skills

22 May 2009 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

May 22, 2009 – Community conversation teams gathered from around the country, on the outskirts of Johannesburg, to continue their training in the Community Capacity Enhancement (CCE) methodology (link to downloadable PDF).

The six-day workshop, from Tuesday, May 19, to Sunday, May 24, looked to gather feedback from the teams on the facilitation of the community conversations to date, and to review the theory and application of the CCE methods and tools used in the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s community conversations programmes.

Residents map out a way to live together in harmony

Yeoville community conversation continues the dialogue on social cohesion

6 May 2009 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

May 6, 2009– “If a person belongs to a different tribe or party, or if they express a different opinion, it doesn’t mean that they are your enemy. We need to understand one another,” said one of the participants at a community conversations workshop in Yeoville, Johannesburg today.

This conversation was the second held in Yeoville, a multicultural suburb where many immigrants live. It forms part of a series of conversations about social cohesion that will be convened around South Africa by the Nelson Mandela Foundation. The facilitators and community members took up issues that were raised at the previous conversation and explored them further.

Activities leading up to the Seventh Annual Lecture by Prof Muhammad Yunus

Seventh Annual Lecture programme

1 May 2009 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

Please find below a programme of activities involving Prof Muhammad Yunus which will culminate in his presentation of the Seventh Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture.

Prof Yunus is a Nobel Peace Prize winner who founded Grameen Bank. He is an activist for human and women’s rights, a founding member of the Global Elders, an economist, a prolific writer and a champion of the poor.

Foreigner language: sensitising the police and media

Dialogue highlights the need for organisations to work together to avoid fuelling xenophobic violence

9 April 2009 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

April 9, 2008 – A need for sensitivity around the use of language when reporting on foreigners in South Africa was highlighted after a short but intense dialogue held at the Nelson Mandela Foundation today.

The Foundation convened a one-hour discussion, in collaboration with the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), to discuss the use of language when reporting on foreigners in South Africa.

Dialogue explains CCE methodology at SA AIDS conference

AIDS conference delegates quickly grasp the potential of the community conversations method

7 April 2009 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

April 7, 2009 – How do we ensure that all the advances in science and all the available evidence on HIV/AIDS get through to communities in order to achieve the transformation they want?

This was the question that Mothomang Diaho, Head of the Dialogue Programme at the Nelson Mandela Foundation, opened with at the fourth Southern African AIDS Conference in Durban last week.

Foundation presents schools dialogue plan

Education meeting reacts positively to proposal for learners to discuss human rights

6 April 2009 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

April 6, 2009 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation got one step closer to launching its schools dialogue programme when it presented its plan at the Race and Values Inter-Provincial Network Meeting organised by the Department of Education in Pretoria on Thursday, April 2.

Promise of Leadership to be captured in coffee-table book

Foundation and South Africa: The Good News partner to create lasting record of dialogue

26 March 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Dialogue for Justice

March 26, 2009 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation and South Africa: The Good News are producing a coffee-table book about the recent Promise of Leadership Dialogue, held in Johannesburg on March 20 and March 21, 2009.

The book seeks not just to capture the essence of the dialogue, but also to further the discussions by incorporating original writing by those who attended and by other thought leaders on the various session topics.

Foundation hosts aids2031 hyper-endemic pillar meeting

Meeting convened to discuss special issues paper Turning off the tap – looking forward to 2031

26 March 2009 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

March 25, 2009 – Adopting a forward-looking approach to HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa is key to curtailing the spread of the disease in the region.

This was the message when a small reading group of the hyper-endemic pillar of aids2031 gathered at the Nelson Mandela Foundation on March 16 to discuss the paper, Turning off the Tap – Looking Forward to 2031.

Role of the media in moving Africa forward and vision for Africa in 2050 hotly debated

Lively end to first Promise of Leadership Dialogue

21 March 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Dialogue for Justice

March 21, 2009 – The sixth session of the Promise of Leadership Dialogue was a fiery one, with participants hotly debating the role of the media in Africa, and perceptions of the continent in Africa itself and abroad, before the Nelson Mandela Foundation CEO Achmat Dangor wrapped up the conference with the seventh session, entitled "Africa 2050: Looking to the Future".

Promise of Leadership sessions focus on leaving a legacy in Africa

Morning sessions discuss the necessity of reflecting on the past in order to move forward

21 March 2009 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Dialogue for Justice

March 21, 2009 – Day two of the Promise of Leadership started with the Nelson Mandela Foundation's CEO Achmat Dangor asking people to reflect on the intense debates of yesterday and bear those in mind when debating today's topics.

Dangor said that it was of particular significance that the day's dialogue sessions, which focused on Africa's past and future, occurred on the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and on the annual Human Rights Day in South Africa.