News – Dialogue for Justice

Our year in review

World honours Nelson Mandela

12 December 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Dialogue for Justice

Dec 12, 2008 – In what was arguably the biggest world-wide birthday celebration of all time, Nelson Mandela turned 90 this year.

Questions now, answers in 2031

Foundation hosts aids2031 meeting to make an HIV/AIDS plan for Southern Africa

2 December 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Dialogue for Justice

Dec 2, 2008 – “It’s an enormous responsibility, but there’s an opportunity to strategically influence the course of the epidemic [HIV/AIDS] in the future.”

Nelson Mandela Foundation CEO Achmat Dangor was speaking at an aids2031 strategy meeting today, aimed at finding ways to change the future for SADC countries with extremely high HIV prevalence rates.

Foundation website to undergo changes

New-look site will be easier to use

1 December 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Dialogue for Justice

Feb 10, 2009 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation website will soon have a new look.

Originally launched on July 22, 2007, to coincide with the Annual Lecture delivered by Kofi Annan, the website is a resource for thousands of monthly visitors interested in news about Mr Mandela, as well as the work of the Foundation and its Centre of Dialogue and Memory.

The new site will make it easier for users to find information, splitting the news feeds into three areas: Organisation and Governance, Dialogue and Memory.

Memory by the megabyte

Consultative forum highlights the need to digitise archival material

1 December 2008 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Dialogue for Justice

Nov 28, 2008 – The importance of the internet as a digital space to store, source and find archival material was one of the main points that was made at a consultative forum convened by the Nelson Mandela Foundation on Friday.

The forum provided a space for South African institutions having a direct stake in the Nelson Mandela Archive to understand the work of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, ask questions about the Foundation and its work, and offer advice to the Foundation moving forward.

Community conversations

Starting where communities are

1 December 2008 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

Dec 1, 2008 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation has published a booklet describing the series of 10 community conversations on HIV/AIDS around South Africa in 2008.

In his foreword to the booklet, Foundation CEO Achmat Dangor writes: “The 2008 dialogues held in 10 community settings have created a body of knowledge that policy makers, scientists and activists will certainly find useful. Most importantly, these dialogues have helped the local participants to confront that “unspeakable” presence in their midst: HIV prevalence and AIDS mortality. They now have the potential to be empowered and to act decisively.”

World AIDS Day December 1, 2008

WE CAN STOP HIV. WE WILL STOP HIV. IT’S IN OUR HANDS!

24 November 2008 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

Nov 24, 2008 – The theme for World AIDS Day 2008 is LEADERSHIP AND UNITY!

“Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings are oppressed, there is more work to be done…After nearly 90 years of life, it is time for new hands to lift the burdens. It’s in your hands now” (Nelson Mandela, London, June 2008)

School safety on the blackboard

Foundation holds education dialogue to discuss the challenges facing South African schools

20 November 2008 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

Nov 20, 2008 – “The family is collapsing in many areas of the country. Some children are living on their own. Drugs, alcohol and transactional sex in communities undermine the ability of students to learn.”

These are just some of the problems facing the education sector in South Africa, as was expressed by one of the participants in an education dialogue, held at the Nelson Mandela Foundation today.

Skills passed on to community conversations facilitators

Training empowers a new set of facilitators to hold dialogues about HIV/AIDS

18 November 2008 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

Nov 17, 2008 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation convened a community conversation run by newly trained facilitators at Soshanguve, in Gauteng, yesterday.

“Community conversations” is a Nelson Mandela Foundation initiative aimed at facilitating dialogue about HIV/AIDS within communities.

Workshop wraps up 2008 community conversations

Shared experiences will guide more HIV-prevention dialogues over the next three years  

30 October 2008 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

Oct 30, 2008 – If not you, who? If not now, when? If not this, what? The urgency of these questions drew people together with a sense of purpose in a workshop at the Nelson Mandela Foundation today.

The workshop was held to conclude the Foundation’s 2008 community conversations series. Delegates shared experiences, explained the methodology used in the dialogues and discussed the way forward.

Foundation publishes second Malibongwe booklet

Centre of Memory and Dialogue celebrates Malibongwe Dialogue success

28 October 2008 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

Oct 29, 2008 – Following the success of the Malibongwe Dialogue, held on August 22 this year, the Nelson Mandela Foundation has published the second Malibongwe igama lamakhosikazi booklet.

A result of a collaboration between the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and Dialogue, the National Youth Commission and the Department of Arts and Culture, this dialogue was aimed at charting a way forward for the participation of women in the economy. The event was attended by more than 250 participants from business, government and civil society.