Proceedings of the launch of the exhibition Reflections in prison include Nelson Mandela receiving his two personal Notebooks that mysteriously went missing after a raid in Robben Island prison. Donald Card an ex-prison official in Robben Island at the time of the notebooks going missing returns them to Nelson Mandela at the Nelson Mandela Foundation offices in Johannesburg in 2004. Video recording of the proceedings of the launch of the exhibition Reflections in prison together with the return of the two of personal notebooks of that belonged to Nelson Mandela while he was serving a prison sentence in Robben Island. The two Notebooks mysteriously went missing after a raid at the prison.
This item consists of a letter of 1 page written by Mandela to the Commanding officer of Robben Island, Colonel van Aarde requesting permission to attend the funeral of his son, Thembekile.
Nelson Mandela recorded message to the 60th congress of the world association of newspapers and to the 14th congress of the world editors forum, held at the same time.
Video on Marie Bopp an AIDS activist has Breakfast with Nelson Mandela, Later in the day participates in an AIDS awareness campaign organised by Love life. Share a stage with Nelson Mandela and Bill Clinton.
Media highlights of Nelson Mandela visiting different places in South Africa informing people about the Nelson Mandela Foundation HIV/AIDS programme - Mobilising United Action on HIV/AIDS.
HIV/AIDS calling to care for four key components. 1. Research 2. Treatment and Care 3. Reviews Education 4. Strong Integrated leadership. Nelson Mandela Foundation HIV programme, with Medisin Sans’ Frontier. The program focuses on ongoing counselling, testing and support in South Africa.
Video about Pregs Govender interview on the book that she wrote on self -transformation. Biography talk held at the Cape Town book fair with Pregs Govender on violence against women on a journey of self-transformation and how to deal with our own fears as human beings.
Mac Maharaj interview on the making of Nelson Mandela's biography Long Walk to freedom. Comments on how the book was written despite the harsh conditions in Robben Island
Video on Prof Jakes Gerwel message on making everyday a Mandela day, explains the Mandela day campaign and requests the people of the world to allow Nelson Mandela to truly retire by working with the three charities that were founded by Nelson Mandela.
Video on community conversations programme focusing on HIV/AIDS and other social problems in the communities such as poverty, patriarchy lack of education, crime and unemployment.
Video on Nelson Mandela Madiba and the Ruperts; Johan Rupert welcomes Nelson Mandela with Jakes Gerwel and introduces them to Nicholas Matseke and they all enjoy lunch.
Video on Nelson Mandela lunch with the Mandela Rhodes class of 2007, the lunch is held at the home Shaun Johnson. Welcome speech by Jakes Gerwel, other speeches by Tom Hunter from the Tom Hunter Foundation and Ibrahim Rasool the premier of the Western Cape .
Proceedings of the tenth Nelson Mandela Annual lecture delivered by Mrs Mary Robinson former Prime Minister of Ireland, held in Cape Town City Hall, South Africa
Banquet for Rhode Scholars - Rhodes Scholarship Centenary Celebration ; This is the prepared speech. It seems Mandela ad-libbed - see press report below:
Mandela adopts a softer approach on Iraq
Former foreign minister Pik Botha's intended role as a broker in Iraq gave Nelson Mandela the pretext he sorely needed at the week
Johannesburg launch 46664 CD/DVD - It seems Mandela differed from the written script. We will include the speech as he delivered it once we secure the recording of the event.
Red Cross Children's Hospital Fundraiser ; The search results on the South African Government Information Website date this speech as 25 Feb 1996 but the date on the actual speech is 25 Feb 1995. It is not known which is the correct year.
Launch of the book "Madiba The Rainbow Man" ; There is a note on the speech from the ANC website that this is the translated version but it is not clear what language the speech was originally given in. Given the place of the launch, it is assumed to be Afrikaans.
