Media Statement: Nelson Mandela Day 2022
The Nelson Mandela Foundation has themed Nelson Mandela Day 2022 around its food and nutrition programme, with the call, ‘Do what you can, with what you have, where you are’.
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.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation has themed Nelson Mandela Day 2022 around its food and nutrition programme, with the call, ‘Do what you can, with what you have, where you are’.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation in association with the Hanns Seidel Foundation invites you to a dialogue on the Rule of Law and Constitutionalism, with the Deputy National Director of Public Prosecutions, Advocate Anton du Plessis, being the keynote speaker.
Join the Nelson Mandela Foundation for a ceremony in which a ceremonial apartheid-era South African flag is switched for one from the democratic era.
I remember the day Nelson Mandela returned, exactly thirty years after his death. On that day, a hole emerged and swallowed the entire township of Alexandra in a single moment.
The impacts of spatial apartheid planning have been so vast that even today our planning still creates an opportunity for separate development, except that currently money has replaced race as the tool for exclusion, writes Qhamani Neza Tshazi.
I always feel a terrible pull in opposite directions – on the one hand, I am often inspired by the resilience and the innovation I encounter; on the other hand, I feel the pain of so much suffering, despair and violence, writes Foundation CE Sello Hatang in his May letter.
Join the Nelson Mandela Foundation in reflecting on key challenges for South Africa a year after the July 2021 wave of public violence in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.
Please join us in a ceremony in which a ceremonial South African flag officially presented to a policeman murdered during the apartheid era is exchanged for a flag from South Africa's democratic era. A dialogue will follow the flag-swap.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation will be framing Nelson Mandela Day 2022 around its food and nutrition programme, under the theme “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are”.
Join the Foundation as it officially opens a new exhibition, accompanied by a conversation between the Foundation’s Head of Leadership Development, Professor Verne Harris and Anthropology lecturer at the University of Witwatersrand, Dr Kholeka Shange, as they explore Prof Harris’ book, Ghosts of Archive.
Please join us for the launch of Homeland – A Song for Refugees.
Join a discussion that explores how to achieve socio-economic justice in South Africa.
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