Media Statement: United Nations Champion of the Earth, Prime Minister Mia Mottley, confirmed to speak at 20th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture
The Nelson Mandela Foundation is pleased to announce Her Excellency Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia…
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Nelson Mandela travels through Africa
During my time as a volunteer at the Foundation, I had the incredible opportunity to…
Announcing the 2022 Dialogue & Advocacy Fellow: Luveshni Odayar
The recipient of the 2022 Dialogue and Advocacy Fellowship is Luveshni Odayar. Luveshni holds an MSc…
Archive, ghosts and justice: Exhibition opening and panel discussion
On the 13th of April, 2022, the Archive at the Centre of Memory, an initiative of…
Invitation to Cover: Exhibition Opening – Reality Check: Walter Sisulu – Accused #2
The Archive at the Centre of Memory will be opening a new virtual reality exhibition…
My year at the Nelson Mandela Foundation
Philile Dlamini, an intern in the Foundation's Dialogue & Advocacy department, reflects on her year working…
Reflections – my journey as an archive intern
Archive intern Shanty Joy Fisher reflects on her time at the Nelson Mandela Foundation.
Media statement: Foundation saddened by passing of Archbishop Desmond Tutu
The loss of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu is immeasurable. He was larger than life,…
Media statement: Sadness on the passing of Franklin Thomas
We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Franklin A. Thomas. We…
Mandela Remembrance Walk & Run celebrated in numbers around the world
JOHANNESBURG – The Nelson Mandela Foundation and the Gauteng provincial government have hailed t…
Madiba, Christmas and children
Madiba’s love for children was extraordinary, and this is one of the reasons h…
Media Statement: Mandela Remembrance Walk & Run to be a completely virtual event this year
JOHANNESBURG – The Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF) and the Gauteng Provincial Government (GPG) have taken t…
Media statement: Domestic work in South Africa one year after Constitutional Court victory
Friday, 19 November 2021 will mark the first anniversary since the Constitutional Court handed down a monumental…
Exhibition: into the frontline of conflict
In this collection Spanish artist Diego Ibarra Sánchez assumes a very critical stance regarding …
Siyawa: what would happen if Madiba returned?
Asisebenzi, Madiba, Siyawa. The past is a dangerous place, the present is dissolving with…
The work of reckoning with our pasts is on our shoulders
The very different lives and narratives of two people have been top of mind for…
Madiba's prison diaries
The Foundation has, in the archive, Nelson Mandela’s prison diaries, in which Mandela j…
Generation equality: Realising women’s rights for an equal future
Young women must develop grit and discipline so that they can fulfil their dreams of…
The rule of law and food for all
In August 2021 the Foundation focused on the 19th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture and on continuing…
Annual Lecture 2021: Fatou Bensouda's full address
This is the full transcript of former ICC Chief Prosecutor Madame Fatou Bensouda's Nelson Mandela…