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To commemorate this historical moment the Nelson Mandela Foundation hosted three connected events in the Western Cape.
The Covid-19 pandemic is an unprecedented global challenge and the Nelson Mandela Foundation has joined with partners to support South Africans and their government in their fight against the virus.
Here are the many ways we are doing this:
May has seen the Nelson Mandela Foundation preoccupied with emergency relief work and the selection of a new cohort for its US-South African fellowship programme (Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity, a partnership with Columbia University in New York), writes the Foundation's CE in his May newsletter. "In both areas of work, I have felt keenly the extent to which black lives don’t matter."
The Nelson Mandela Foundation warns the public against a phishing scam invoking its name.
We come together united by a long-term commitment to education and rural development, to motivate that we approach the Covid-19 crisis as one that fundamentally combines health, the economy and education. We motivate to rapidly extend the stimulus package to make a massive once-off investment into equalising the basic resources of schooling, with an emphasis on primary schooling and early childhood development.
Covid-19 is presenting humanity with an enormous challenge as it faces a global crisis on a scale not experienced in a very long time. Governments and societies are wrestling with big issues, from how to save both lives and economies to learning critical lessons for the future; from ensuring that rights suspended under lockdown are reinstated unsullied as soon as possible to ensuring that we are prepared to embrace a post-COVID-19 reality which cannot be business as usual.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation welcomes President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement that government is consulting over a possible shift to level 3 lockdown for parts of the country at the end of May. We commend the President for acknowledging that mistakes have been made in lockdown enforcement.
On the weekend of 9 and 10 May the Each 1, Feed campaign delivered food and supplies to people in the Mvezo and Qunu areas of the Eastern Cape, where Nelson Mandela grew up.
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South Africans who wish to donate are invited to SMS Madiba to 42607. Each SMS will donate R30 towards the work carried out by the Nelson Mandela Foundation. South African carriers only.
