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Media invitation: Tiger Brands Mandela Day Food Parcel Project, Eastern Cape

Over 10 600 learners to receive much-needed food security over the December holidays

2 December 2013 | Category: Mandela Day, Press release

Following the success of Mandela Day food parcel project, Tiger Brands is distributing a further 10 620 food parcels to learners for the December school holiday period.

When Hope Whispers

Zoleka Mandela talks to NMF staff

1 December 2013 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

After Zoleka Mandela lost her 13-year-old daughter Zenani to a motorcar accident in 2010, her grandfather Nelson Mandela put her on his knee and told her that she was not the only parent to have lost a child.

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom breaks box office records: issued by Videovision

Film opens at number one in South Africa

29 November 2013 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Press release

South African audiences have responded overwhelmingly to Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom, resulting in the film opening at number one at the box office on Thursday.

Critics heap praise on Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

27 November 2013 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Press release

South Africa’s most anticipated film, Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom, will hit cinema screens throughout the country tomorrow (28 November 2013). The film has received rave reviews from a diverse range of critics in South Africa.

U2 and Anna Wintour host screening of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom in New York

26 November 2013 | Category: Press release

On 25 November the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York was witness to a unique event when Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom had a screening hosted by super band, U2 and American Vogue’s Editor in Chief, Anna Wintour with the actors, Idris Elba and Naomie Harris, director Justin Chadwick and special guest, Nelson Mandela’s daughter Zenani in attendance.

#MandelaLWTF: The journey continues with a social media first

Join the conversation and live Tata’s legacy

26 November 2013 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Press release

With the long-awaited release of the autobiographical movie Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom on 28 November 2013, Gareth Cliff with #HandsAcrossSA, together with the Nelson Mandela Foundation and Ster Kinekor, are encouraging everyone in South Africa, and indeed the world, to see the movie and join in the conversation.  


Nelson Mandela Foundation facilitates Mandela Day social dialogue

A social conversation on mental health stigma with Gareth Cliff and Professor Jonathan Jansen

21 November 2013 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Mandela Day

On 20 November 2013, the Nelson Mandela Foundation, together with Professor Jonathan Jansen, #HandsAcrossSA Ambassador Gareth Cliff, Tara Hospital and Headway, held a social dialogue on mental health stigmas, a critical social issue in our communities today.

The Nelson Mandela Quotations Collection: Supporting South Africa's disadvantaged children

20 November 2013 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Press release

Nelson Mandela has become an icon for peace and reconciliation throughout the world. Many of his groundbreaking ideas were penned by hand during his imprisonment on Robben Island.

President Jacob Zuma opens Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

Multi-purpose public facility, interactive archive and dialogue venue

18 November 2013 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Press release

South African President Jacob Zuma opened the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, official home of the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, on 18 November 2013. The official opening by President Zuma marks a significant period in our country’s history and reminds us of the 20th anniversary of our democracy to be celebrated in 2014.

President Zuma visits former President Mandela: issued by the Presidency

18 November 2013 | Category: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, Press release

President Jacob Zuma has this morning, 18 November 2013, visited former President Nelson Mandela at home in Houghton, where he continues to recover. The health of the former President remains much the same as it was when President Zuma last visited him, which is stable but critical while Madiba continues to respond to treatment.