Nelson Mandela Foundation

On 30 January 2013 the 23rd Mandela Day container library was opened at Linge Junior Secondary School in Nyanga, the Western Cape. The library was sponsored by Irish Distillers, a company based in Dublin.

More than 200 members of staff from Dublin’s Irish Distillers arrived in Cape Town a week earlier for the group’s annual conference. Part of the visitors’ itinerary included a trip to Robben Island, where they learnt about Nelson Mandela and his contribution to the political struggle for freedom in South Africa. Here the group presented a symbolic cheque for the container library to Tim Smith, of Breadline Africa, and Frank Meintjies, of the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory.

On 30 January a smaller contingent of staff members, about 60 people, travelled to Linge Junior Secondary School in Nyanga for the opening of the sponsored library.