Part of the Nelson Mandela Foundation's work is aimed at making sense of South Africa's troubled past. This is done through various projects, dialogues and exhibitions, among others.
Nelson Mandela International Dialogues
The Nelson Mandela Foundation is partnering with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Global Leadership Academy, which is commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), to bring together participants from countries worldwide to engage in a series of dialogues on memory work: the Nelson Mandela International Dialogues.
Exhibitions and events
Reckoning with South Africa’s past
On 4 October 2018, the Nelson Mandela Foundation launched an online archival collection of the hundreds of…
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…
To find freedom we must turn to the past
Did we find freedom on 27 April 1994? What did this moment mean for the undoing of…
Innovative new book on Project Coast turns readers into investigators
What do we really know about the apartheid state’s secretive chemical and biological warfare p…
Reckoning with Pasts
It is of critical importance that South Africa’s chemical and biological warfare programme, Project C…
Remembering Madiba
“For as long as the natural state of the black South African is poor and t…