News – Dialogue for Justice

Foundation publishes human rights dialogue booklet

“Dignity and Justice for All” Dialogue booklet published

27 March 2008 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

March 27, 2008 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation has just published a booklet recording the Human Rights Lecture and Roundtable Discussion held in conjunction with the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNOHCHR) on December 10, 2007.

Veteran activists remember apartheid trial

Sweden’s contribution to anti-apartheid struggle highlighted

14 March 2008 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

March 14, 2008 – Three of Nelson Mandela’s co-trialists in the Defiance, Treason and Rivonia Trials in the 1950s and 1960s shared their memories of standing trial in South Africa for fighting against apartheid this afternoon.

Their memories were supplemented by recollections from Swedish activists who supported them morally and financially, in a dialogue at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg entitled “The Sweden and the South African Liberation Struggle ‒ Legal Aid in Perspective”.

Rural businesswoman inspires success in others

Rags-to-riches story of rural women

8 March 2008 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

March 8, 2008 – “At some time, African women need to write their stories. The first of those stories will be Ma Qwabe’s,” said MC Sibongile Mkhabela at the event to mark International Women’s Day held today at the Presidential Guesthouse in Pretoria as she introduced businesswoman and community leader Agnes Qwabe.

Women use arts and crafts to make a difference

Craftwork has potential to fight poverty

8 March 2008 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

March 8, 2008 – Women crafters from around the country showcased their work in an arts and crafts fair at a two-day event at the Presidential Guesthouse in Pretoria in honour of International Women’s Day, hosted by the departments of arts and culture and trade and industry.

Celebrating International Women’s Day

South African women gather in Pretoria to discuss empowerment

8 March 2008 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

March 8, 2008 – Women from business, NGOs and government met on International Women’s Day under the auspices of the departments of trade and industry and arts and culture, to discuss empowerment of women and ways of fighting against poverty.

The meeting was held at the Presidential Guesthouse in Pretoria, and was opened last night by South African Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka. Guest speakers including government representatives and community leaders addressed an audience of a few hundred women – and a few men – who later broke away into discussion groups, where they were able to make individual inputs.

In Conversation With Njabulo Ndebele

The Nelson Mandela Foundation speaks to the University of Cape Town vice-chancellor and renowned South African thinker

1 March 2008 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

In the first of our “In Conversation With” series to commemorate Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday, Njabulo Ndebele talks with Tara Turkington on issues including leadership, citizenship, the level of public debate, and the role of creativity in post-apartheid South Africa.

Caring Schools Dialogue continued through publication

Caring Schools Dialogue booklet published

28 February 2008 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

Feb 28, 2008 – A booklet recording the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s Caring Schools dialogue has been published to promote further dialogue.

Children’s needs were at the centre of the dialogue, held in the Free State town of Clarens on November 26, 2007. The Foundation’s Centre of Memory & Dialogue convened the gathering to discuss and debate how schools can become centres of caring for orphans and vulnerable children.

Companies can help beat HIV/AIDS

Employees should be encouraged to test regularly

18 December 2007 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

Dec 18, 2007 – Companies in the private sector can do more to assist in the management of the AIDS epidemic. This was the message Dr Mothomang Diaho, head of the Dialogue Programme at the Nelson Mandela Foundation, conveyed recently at Personal Finance/Discovery Health Focus seminars.

Towards dignity and justice

Celebrating 60 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

7 December 2007 | Category: Dialogue for Justice

Dec 7, 2007 – In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the SA Human Rights Commission in collaboration with the Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF) and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, will host the Annual Human Rights Lecture and Roundtable Discussion.

‘It’s in our hands’ - Middelburg youth highlight HIV/AIDS issues

46664 Peer-To-Peer Community Dialogue Programme engages youth in small towns across South Africa

1 December 2007 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Dialogue for Justice

Dec 1, 2007 – It’s 1pm and about 30°C in Mhluzi, a township just outside the coal-mining town of Middelburg in Mpumalanga, South Africa. People melt into St Peter’s Lutheran Church, ushered in by the loudhailers of the local police announcing an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign in the area as well as by promotional inserts on the local radio station, Greater Middelburg FM (GMFM). The Middelburg event is the third event in a series of community dialogues funded by the Nelson Mandela Foundation leading up to the 46664 concert on December 1, World AIDS Day.