Steven Lukey visits to the Nelson Mandela Foundation and received a guided tour of the Nelson Mandela Office, Nelson Mandela Life and Times Exhibition, Negotiating Democracy Exhbition and the Archive vault by Zandile Myeka (Metadata and Documents Archivist) and Lerato Tshabalala (Metadata and Photographs Archivist).
Signing of the MoU between the Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF) and the Market Theatre Foundation (MTF) for the handover of the exhibition 'Between States of Emergency' with NMF staff, MTF staff and Photo Workshop students.
A dialogue on Reckoning with Reconciliation, marking the 20th Anniversary of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission Report being submitted to President Nelson Mandela. The dialogue was facilitated by Patronella Nqaba, and the main speakers were Chandre Gould, Noel Solani, Sylvia Graham, Imtiaz Cajee. Concurrently launching the: -Report: A Ground of Struggle-Four Decades of Archival Activism in South Africa by Dr Mbongeni Buthelezi -An online Archival resource-The Presidential Years launch by Tony Trew and NMF Archive team.
Australian Volunteer, Jessica Pietsch, in her capacity as Digitisation Project Officer, along with NMF Archive & Research team, participating in a marketing photographic shoot for volunteer sending agency AVI.
Jack Swart, Manfred Jacobs & Brian Sickle visiting the NMF and heritage sites in Johannesburg. Zandile Myeka a Metadata and Photographs Archivist at the Nelson Mandela Foundation interviewed Jack Swart on his experience being Madiba’s warder at his last prison, now called the Groot Drakenstein Correctional Centre, and staff of the Foundation interacted with him during the Q&A session.
Nelson Mandela Foundation staff provided with a guided tour of the exhibition "Mandela: My Life" by Zandile Myeka an Archivist at the Nelson Mandela Foundation.
Photoshoot for ZA Rights website. Goodwill Collection is a Nelson Mandela Foundation that is inspired by the life and times of Nelson Mandela. It strives to celebrate an icon, his values and ideals. With this merchandise collection, the Nelson Mandela Foundation advocate for social justice.
Nelson Mandela Foundation staff gathered for Yase Godlo's farewell. Yase Godlo served at the Nelson Mandela Foundation as Director of Mandela Day and Special Projects.
Nelson Mandela continues to be memorialised in different ways all over the world. For this reason, the workshop shared new insights from the Memorialising Mandela in the Metropolis project at Loughborough University that explores the relationship between toponymy, graphic images, cultural heritage, and place making, in locations named after Madiba. Perspectives from academia, Nelson Mandela Foundation, creative industries, and delegate participation, were synthesised in the context of research undertaken in South Africa, Brazil, and United Kingdom. The workshop ended with a session on knowledge exchange and research opportunities for future collaboration.
A team of design researchers at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom in collaboration with Celeste Mckenzie, creative industries practitioners and heritage specialists in South Africa used graphic heritage as a lens to find out how much or how little information there is about Madiba in six locations named after him in the Gauteng Province. Through graphic heritage, the exhibition reveals as much about absence as it does about presence. It straddles the established but contested domain of heritage interpretation, presentation, and representation.
The exhibition is designed to inspire public engagement with its content and encourage visitors to contribute their thoughts, feelings, and observations to eventually shape the exhibition's public image. The case study locations are colour-coded to match the unique colours of the South African national flag.
Mandela Day activities at the Dr Mathole Motshekga Primary School with Nelson Mandela staff, Graça Machel, P&G staff and Robyn Hills from food and trees for Africa: gardening and upgrading the building
