Donor recognition event and unveiling of the donor wall 2022. Donors were awarded certificates of acknowledgement for their support towards the work of the NMF
Shamilla Chettiar’s visit to the Nelson Mandela Foundation, receives a guided tour of the Life and Times of Nelson Mandela exhibition, Madiba's post presidential office and the archive.
Chris Eeubank visits the Nelson Mandela Foundation and receive a guided tour to Nelson Mandela’s post presidential office, Nelson Mandela Foundation's archive and permanent exhibition.
Sizwile School for Deaf Children visits the Nelson Mandela Foundation and receive a guided tour to Nelson Mandela’s post presidential office and Nelson Mandela Foundation permanent exhibition.
Visit by John F Stevenson to the Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF) and receives a guided tour of the exhibition, archive and Nelson Mandela's post presidential office.
Lourens and Lorato Labuschagne visits the Nelson Mandela Foundation. They were given a guided tour of Nelson Mandela's post presidential office, Nelson Mandela Life and Times Exhibition and the Archive.
Miss Universe 2022, Harnaaz Sandhu visits the Nelson Mandela Foundation, receives a guided tour of the temporary and permanent exhibitions, including the vault. Few photos taken in the auditorium.
Visit by West Papua to the Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF), receives a guided tour of the Life and Times of Nelson Mandela exhibition, his post presidential office and the archive.
Tenjiwe Christina Kaba née Nyushu donates her old dompas to the Nelson Mandela Foundation. Ma Christina’s dompas depicts the various regions she was allowed to reside in and has a section where her permanent or home address is listed. It is signed by the Chief/Headman.
Visit by the Western States Centre to the Nelson Mandela Foundation. Chief Executive of the Nelson Mandela Foundation Sello Hatang gave them a tour of the archive, exhibitions and Madiba's post-presidential office.
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.
The International Conference on Audio-Visual Archiving and Preservation - Africa held at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg. The theme was: “Focus On Saving And Preserving Africa’s Audio-Visual Heritage”.
Making Reading Fun is an initiative of the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s Archive and Research department, which aims to make reading a much more fun activity for the future leaders of our country. The initiative targets different age groups each time, with this month’s reading aimed at our youth between 6 and 12 years of age.
Making Reading Fun was launched on 15 April 2023 to encourage reading and literacy among South Africa’s children, and to impart knowledge of Mandela’s extraordinary life story, and his values, which are celebrated worldwide.
Four, bad quality photographic prints of Nelson Mandela together with another man walking in Alexandra. Grabs from footage housed at the Huntly Film Archives.
Nelson Mandela's secret meeting with President P.W. Botha. From l to r: General Williamsen, Nelson Mandela, Neil Barnard, Pres. Botha and Kobie Coetsee. Only photograph of the meeting that took place on 5 July 1989. Other people in the photo are General Johan Willemse (Commissioner of Prisons), Niel Barnard (Head of National Intelligence), and Hendrik "Kobie" Coetsee (Minister of Justice).
Photos of Healdtown College. In the Class photograph are, among others: Nelson Mandela (back row, fifth from the right), Myrtle Workman (white woman), Rev. Arthur Wellington (next to Myrtle), Rev. S. M. Mokitimi (next to Wellington), Jane Methola (next to Mokitimi) and Gilbert Nzimani (behind Mokitimi).
1. Mandela shaking hands with a lady 2. the Indian Cricket Team meets Mandela 3. Mandela speaking ath Cosatu's Special Congress 4. Mandela, Amina and Yusuf Cachalia photographed from the back 5. Mandela in a Crowd
Colour print of Mandela in a stadium, standing with raised first. A B&W version of the photographic print is signed by Mandela on 8.10.99 and the text 'to Liz, Best Wishes'.
Mandela's 85th birthday celebration. Mandela and Graça Machel greeting children, a big birthday cake, kids in wheelchairs wearing NMF shirts. Taken outdoors under a marque.
The South African National Defense Force and the National Air Force Orchestra celebrate Madiba's 85th birthday. People arriving with present, generals cooks and cakes.
Nelson Mandela's 85th birthday at the Sandton Convention Centre. Only 1 print is with Mandela. With major national and international political, cultural and business people.
Mandela receives the Jesse Owens Global Award for Peace from Herb Douglas and the University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg. In his Houghton home. The Award is sponsored by the IAAA.
Nelson Mandela visiting Helen Suzman, a former member of Parliament for the Progressive Federal Party, at her sickbed. Possibly with Patty Suzman as well.
Nelson Mandela delivering a speech. Several members of the NMF staff are seated at the table which is decorated with Christmas crackers. The event is held outdoors under a marquee.
Programme and photographs of a Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF) and Nelson Mandela Children's Fund (NMCF) event in a school in Cape Town around HIV/AIDS. Speakers include Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela.
20 faded colour photoprints taken in 1990 in Tanzania on the occasion of Nelson Mandela's first visit there since 1962. Some are taken at the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (SOMAFCO). Other identifiable people appearing in the pictures are: Winnie Mandela, Chris Hani, Ruth Mompati, James Mahlangu(?), Cyril Ramaphosa, Valli Moosa, Ahmed Kathrada, Trevor Manual, Alpheus Manghezi (head of SOMAFCO).
Graca Machel and Nelson Mandela, group photo with members of the first democratic parliament, Eddie Nair and others. ID of Eddie Nair as Peace Monitor during the first democratic elections.
In the heart of the Limpopo farmlands, near the Botswana border, lies the village of Senwabarwana. The impoverished village (also known as Bochum), founded by businessman Stanley Thema, is one of the fastest-growing rural areas in South Africa. 147 learners attending Thabantsho Primary School have little choice but to walk kilometres every day just to get to class. Jade Orgill, Project Manager at Breadline Africa, reported that while she was setting up the school’s container library in preparation for the launch event, some Grade 7 learners explained to her that none of them had never seen a library before – and certainly not so many books in one place.
On 6 September 2014, right in the middle of National Literacy Week, students and educators at Skeen Primary School in Alexandra township, Johannesburg, celebrated the opening of the school’s Mandela Day container library. The library is the 49th facility of it kind to open since the launch of the Mandela Day container library project in 2012.
Mandela day library book club launch at Protea Glen secondary school, and handover of the library to the school by Kaya FM in partnership with the Nelson Mandela Foundation.
Pan African Conference 'Africa Time for Peace' in Rwanda. As well as the opening of the 'Nelson Mandela Peace Village'. where provided, captions are on the back of the prints.
The Nelson Mandela 5th Annual Lecture with Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary-General and Nobel laureate. The focus of the Lecture was on the progress of Africa, that it needed to be balanced on three pillars: security, development and human rights.
