The Centre of Memory is where the Nelson Mandela Foundation works to further Nelson Mandela's legacy of dignity and freedom for all.
The year 2018 marks a major milestone in the incredible story of Nelson Mandela – his centenary. The Nelson Mandela Foundation plans to honour his legacy by building a base towards the future.
You are welcome to visit the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory. This is where Mandela worked from the end of his presidency in 1999 to the end of his public service in 2004.
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.
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 20th anniversary of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission report being handed to Mandela, who was then president.
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.
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.
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.
The children of Limpopo’s Papong Primary School have been enjoying a brand-new, fully stocked library since 25 July 2018, donated by the Long Walk to Freedom Mandela Day Libraries Project and mining supply company Hytec Group.
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.
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.
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.
A special evening celebrating the fully restored Rivonia Trial sound archive.
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.
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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