45-page essay on Mandela's warders, James Gregory, Christo Brand and Jack Swart, during the period 1968-1990. Commissioned by the Nelson Mandela Foundation in 2011.
Photos of the luncheon at the Saxon Hotel, Johannesburg on 24 July 2004; some photos taken elsewhere. The quality of the photos is poor. The creator(s) is unknown - probably Cell-C.
Compilation of extracts from two speeches dated 21 September 2004 and 25 July 2007 where Mandela speaks about archives and memory. The compilation was made for the 2011 9th Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture where the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory was introduced.
Video recording of Nelson Mandela celebrating his 87th birthday in Mvezo, his birthplace. He is met by the chief of Mvezo and some community members. The children are asked what standard they are in school, some community members inform him about their participation in the struggle for liberation. Community members and the children sing happy birthday for him and he leaves.
Photos of the launch of the documentary The Axe and the Tree: Zimbabwe’s Legacy of Political Violence by the International Centre for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) at the NMF.
Nelson Mandela Living the Legacy: mini documentary made from shots on pass laws, defiance campaign, migrant labour, first democratic elections, inauguration, Tutu, Princess Diana, President of South Africa, retirement of Nelson Mandela
Several files with raw footage of the launch of the book. Featuring, besides Mandela: Jakes Gerwel, Ahmed Kathrada, Trevor Manuel, and Thabo Mbeki. Shots of the audience and people buying the book and enjoying the catering.
The following events are recorded: • Rica Hodgson's book "Foot Soldier for Freedom" (3.1.12; 4 images - Picador Africa, publisher) • Judge Thumba Pillay Donation to the Archive (3.3.8; 6 images photographed by Flow) • Heritage Day donation by the NMF (5.1.2.2.2; 128 images photographed by Flow) • St. John's Prep School donation (5.1.2.9; 3 images photographed by Flow)
The item consists of a video recording of Nelson Mandela receiving a copy of the book "Conversations with Myself" from his daughter Zindzi Mandela and struggle stalwart Ahmed Kathrada. It includes footage of Zindzi visiting the archive repository and viewing some of the original archival documents with Verne Harris, Head of the Centre of Memory.
A set of 10 CDs comprising of audio, interviews, transcripts, photographs from the Madiba Way - a project of the NMF Dialogue Programme focusing on developing a dialogue methodology for the Nelson Mandela Foundation.
Includes 4 textual items: copy of article "Rivonia: The Story of Accused no. 11 by Bob Hepple, reprinted from Social Dynamics 30:1 (2004); Note by Hepple (papers listed in the note were not received); Document Rivonia Trial - Mandela's comment on evidence of Walter Sisulu and copy of letter by Sisulu to Hepple; Programme of ANC 70th anniversary concert, London. Includes Cantata in homage of Mandela.
Photographic negatives from Mohammed Ismail of Nelson Mandela receiving a Mercedes Benz S500 from Century Motors in Carletonville. Several have been digitised.
Digitised copies of audio interviews conducted by Sam Shakong with Jonas Gwangwa, family, friends, and colleagues for the biography Sam Shakong and Elinor Sisulu are preparing. The draft introduction to the book and several transcripts are included.
Consists of an annotated and signed copy of Mandela’s speech from the dock and carbon copy of the charge sheet from the Rivonia Trial, The State vs Mandela and others.
Sita’s 1963 diary, with additional entries from 1962. Also includes leaflets: “The Group Areas Act & Mr. Nana Sita” (1964?), SA Indian Congress, London; and pamphlets: “I Accuse!” Speeches to court by Nelson Mandela, 1962-1963 trial (origin unknown); “South Africa’s Treason Trial” (1957), “Afrika!” Publications, Johannesburg.
Sita had concealed these documents in a cushion to avoid them being confiscate during raids by the security police at her family home. In 2008, Sita gifted the cushion to Mandela for his 90th birthday stating on an accompanying note that he will find the contents of the cushion interesting. When the gift was received, the cushioned was unstitched revealing the documents.
Lappies Labuschagne gave his life while assisting civilians to evacuate and inspect the premises where a bomb had been planted. The old apartheid flag which had covered the coffin of Lappies at his funeral was given to the family. On the 23rd of June 2022, the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory hosted a handover ceremony and a dialogue Oppressive Pasts & Healing: From Othering to Belonging. During this ceremony, Lourens and Lorato Labuschagne donated the flag to the Nelson Mandela Foundation in exchange for the new South African flag. This was handed to them by the minister of justice and correctional services, Ronald Lamola at the event. Included with the apartheid flag were three honorary medals bestowed on Lappies. Subsequentlye, digital copies of newspaper clippings and condolence letters were also donated mostly written in Afrikaans and a few in English.
1 folder of textual documents consisting of faxes; invitations; lists of things to do; artwork catalogue; correspondence; draft agenda for NEC of 2 June 1992 and NWC of 10 June 1992 and handwritten notes, some in Mandela's handwriting, and some relating to Mandela's 13th Avenue, Houghton home.
Digital and textual records of the Transitional Executive Council (TEC), the Conference for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) and the Constitutional Assembly collected by Ebrahim
Digital and textual records of the Transitional Executive Council (TEC), the Conference for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) and the Constitutional Assembly collected by Ebrahim
Digital and textual records of the Transitional Executive Council (TEC), the Conference for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) and the Constitutional Assembly collected by Ebrahim.
Digital and textual records of the Transitional Executive Council (TEC), the Conference for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) and the Constitutional Assembly collected by Ebrahim
1. 2 sheets of manuscript (written on both sides) consisting of Mandela's Robben Island autobiography and essays on Black Consciousness transcribed by Maharaj in minute handwriting. 2. 3 sheets and 2 backing boards with notes (written on one side only) by Ahmed Kathrada for secret communication between the ANC and Robben Island. 3. 1 sheet of manuscript (written on one side only) consisting of one paragraph, content and author unknown. 4. 1 photograph of Irene Mkwayi stuck onto a backing board 5. 1 photograph of woman from the Andaman Islands. 6. 2 pages of digital copy of letter by Joey to her father Maharaj, undated.
The collections consists of documents, memorial booklets, pamphlets, photographs and musical sheets of struggle songs. It includes a letter signed by Walter Sisulu and appendices, from the National Action Council of the Congress of the People; several photographs taken during Nelson Mandela's trip through Africa in 1962, in Morroco.
This collection was accumulated by anti-apartheid activist E.S. Reddy and includes Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) reports 1991-1996; copies of press cuttings from American and European papers; copies of United Nations Special Committee on the Policies of Apartheid of the Government of the Republic of South Africa documents; American Committee on Africa, Inc., documents; copies of International Commission of Jurists documents; CDs of O.R. Tambo speeches to the UN; CDs of interview by George Houser, 1954; UN booklet on Nelson Mandela International Day, June 2010; copies of documents and black and white Mandela photos from the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa (IDAF).
Three prints by and from George Hallett: (a) Mandela on the Election Trail, Athlone Stadium, April 1994 (b) Madiba at his Houghton Residence, April 1994 (c) Nelson Mandela, Cape Town 2000.
Photograph of Nelson Mandela signing the President's Bible during his inauguration, 10 May 1994, Union Buildings, Pretoria, South Africa. Zenani Mandela stands behind him, as well as FW de Klerk and his wife. Signed by photographer William A. Br[?] (illegible).
Mandela- and ANC-related materials from the former Anti-Apartheid Movements in the Netherlands. Included is a large collection of digital photos from the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (ANC) in Tanzania, as well as some other ‘ANC in exile’ photos, documents, t-shirts, and other memorabilia. The materials were created by the ANC, IDAF, and others.
