Social cohesion or social divisions: Is it too late to save social media?
An online discussion on whether social media is a place where true dialogue can take…
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Media & News - Dialogue for Justice
Liberating the archive
Three books have been published in recent months which address themes of fundamental importance to…
Lakhal'ixilongo - pursuing a new kind of politics
The deaths of Zindziswa Mandela — a diplomat, activist and daughter of Nelson and Winnie…
Annual Lecture 2020: post-lecture reflections
These are reflections following the delivery of the 18th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture by…
Annual Lecture 2020: Secretary-General Guterres's full speech
Read the full transcript of United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres's Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture 2020 …
Annual Lecture 2020: pre-lecture reflections
These are selected reflections by the Nelson Mandela Foundation's team of commentators before UN Secretary-General…
Media Statement: 18th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture
The Nelson Mandela Foundation is proud to announce that the 18th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture…
Media Advisory: Leave no child behind, every one of them counts
The Department of Social Development has launched the Vangasali campaign in partnership with the Nelson…
Can we solve hunger in South Africa?
When people’s need for water, food and shelter isn’t met, the result is cat…
2019 Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity issue a racial justice call to action
To those who believe in fairness and equal justice: We, the 2019 cohort of the…
Media Statement: Enough! Black Lives Matter
Protests in response to the deaths of Black people at the hands of police or…
Stimulus plan needed for rural education
We come together united by a long-term commitment to education and rural development, to motivate…
Preschool closures threat: Early childhood development sector faces major closures as parents scramble for fees
Without government intervention, close to one million children could be stranded by the time early…
Media Statement: Freedom Day #Each1Feed1 lockdown food distribution in Venda
On Freedom Day 2020 the Each 1, Feed 1 campaign distributed food parcels to people in the Venda…
Media Statement: An urgent call to support the Early Childhood Development (ECD) sector
We call on government to include Early Childhood Development (ECD) operators in South Africa in…
Nelson Mandela’s release and the unimagined dream
Thirty years ago, a 71-year-old Nelson Mandela walked out of the then-Victor Verster prison, an…
Media Statement: Foundation Chairman Professor Njabulo Ndebele in conversation with South Africa's Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng
The Nelson Mandela Foundation hosts a special conversation between the Chairperson of the Nelson Mandela…
Media Statement: Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity 2020
Applications for the 2020 cohort to take part in the twelve-month non-residential Atlantic Fellows for Racial…
Mining bodies: The history of the South African mining industry and the bodies that are exploited
On the 15th of October, the Nelson Mandela Foundation, in collaboration with the Hanns Seidel…
Mining Bodies: Exhibition Opening and Panel Discussion
Gold mining in South Africa, from its earliest
beginnings to present, has had a major…