The collective shame for us all after Qholani's treatment
The Covid-19 pandemic provides even more time to reflect on the sort of society we…
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‘We have no Harlem in Sudan’
A white, off-duty New York policeman fires three fatal shots at a black teenage…
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…
"Never, never and never again"
May has seen the Nelson Mandela Foundation preoccupied with emergency relief work and the selection…
Stimulus plan needed for rural education
We come together united by a long-term commitment to education and rural development, to motivate…
Finding dignity in regulating responses to Covid-19
Covid-19 is presenting humanity with an enormous challenge as it faces a global crisis on…
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…
The time to do different is now
Foundation CE Sello Hatang writes that, while mistakes will be made, South Africa must soldier…
More than a million children, thousands of ECD operators at risk without state support
If 30 000 ECD programmes serving vulnerable communities stop operating due to South Africa's Covid-19 lockdown, it…
May we rise to the challenge
To reflect on anything other than Covid-19 is unimaginable, for obvious reasons. Not in my…
UnThere Kentridge - White People but Black Bodies
Read here and be introduced to the strong feelings, informed by South Africa's turbulent…
Thirty years after Madiba returned
Nelson Mandela Foundation CE Sello Hatang's March 2020 letter, looking back on a busy February …
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…
UnThere us: An account of the violence of heterosexual marriage identity-making
The undeniable, incontestable, bona fide truth about the “New South Africa” is that its mother and…
Country of Madiba's dreams
Nelson Mandela Foundation Chief Executive Sello Hatang looks to the Foundation's 2020's goals, and reflects…
Dig deeper to dream bigger
The Foundation's CE Sello Hatang reflects on South Africa's Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng's delivery of…
Queering queer discourse: Advocating for recognition of the existence of queer people
To be queer is an unhappy state of affairs. It means to be in protest…
Learning to dream again
In recent weeks we have been reminded again of how strongly populism is running in…
Building a culture of peace
September found the Foundation travelling in response to invitations to visit Mexico City, Ramallah, London,…