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Invitation to cover: Restoring the Dignity of the Landless

The debate about Expropriation without Compensation ignores threats to the property rights of the rural poor contained in bills before Parliament.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation mourns the passing away of Barbara Harmel

We have learned with great sadness of the passing of Dr Barbara Harmel and extend our deepest condolences to her daughter, Lisa, her family and friends, from all of us at the Nelson Mandela Foundation.

Reckoning with South Africa’s past

On 4 October 2018, the Nelson Mandela Foundation launched an online archival collection of the hundreds of documents that were used to compile a semi-autobiographical account of Nelson Mandela’s years as South African President. Simultaneously, the Foundation launched a report on archival activism in South Africa and marked the 20^th anniversary of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission report being handed to Mandela, who was then president.

Listening to the Rivonia Trial: Courts, Archives and the Liberation Movements

The evening of 26 September at the Nelson Mandela Foundation opened the scientific colloquium "Listening to the Rivonia Trial: Courts, Archives and Liberation Movements", co-organised by the Department of Arts and Culture's National Archives and Records Service of South Africa (NARSSA), the French Institute in South Africa, the National Audiovisual Institute, the Nelson Mandela Foundation, and the Wits History Workshop.

Nurture our children for SA’s future

Over a rickety ramp and past prefabricated walls, we are greeted by eager eyes. Two small makeshift structures house the 45 children who attend this early childhood development centre in Duncan Village in the Eastern Cape.

Invitation to cover: Reckoning with Reconciliation

In October of 1998 Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Chairperson of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), handed the Commission’s Report to then-President Nelson Mandela. On 4 October 2018 the Nelson Mandela Foundation (the Foundation) plans to mark the twentieth anniversary of this historic moment with an event aimed at accomplishing a number of objectives.

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FOUNDATION ACTIVITIES

Restoring the Dignity of the Landless

The Nelson Mandela Foundation, in collaboration with the Land & Accountability Research Centre, Plexus Films, Sunshine Cinema, the Bertha Foundation and the Hanns Seidel Foundation, invites you to a screening of 'This Land', followed by a dialogue.

Madiba the Lawyer

To mark the important 100th birth year of Madiba the first dialogue will be a small conversational round table dedicated to 'Madiba the Lawyer', in which we unpack the ethics and values that characterised his life and profession and its relevance for reshaping the ethical character of the legal profession today.

Invitation to cover: Reckoning with Reconciliation

Celebrating the fully restored Rivonia Trial sound archive

A special evening celebrating the fully restored Rivonia Trial sound archive.

Invitation to cover: Post Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture Dialogue – ‘Is “Inclusive Capitalism” a realistic economic vision for the future?’

Following the huge appeal of the 16th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture (NMAL) delivered by former US President Barack Obama in July this year, the Nelson Mandela Foundation will host a follow up dialogue on the Lecture.

Invitation to cover: Whiteness, Afrikaans, Afrikaners. Post-Apartheid Legacies, Privileges and Burdens

The Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) in partnership with the Nelson Mandela Foundation would like to invite you to the launch of MISTRA's latest publication, Whiteness, Afrikaans and Afrikaners: Addressing Post-Apartheid Legacies, Privileges and Burdens.

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FOUNDATION NEWS

Invitation to cover: Restoring the Dignity of the Landless

The Nelson Mandela Foundation mourns the passing away of Barbara Harmel

Reckoning with South Africa’s past

Listening to the Rivonia Trial: Courts, Archives and the Liberation Movements

Nurture our children for SA’s future

Invitation to cover: Reckoning with Reconciliation

FOUNDATION ACTIVITIES

Restoring the Dignity of the Landless

Madiba the Lawyer

Invitation to cover: Reckoning with Reconciliation

Celebrating the fully restored Rivonia Trial sound archive

Invitation to cover: Post Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture Dialogue – ‘Is “Inclusive Capitalism” a realistic economic vision for the future?’

Invitation to cover: Whiteness, Afrikaans, Afrikaners. Post-Apartheid Legacies, Privileges and Burdens

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