The Honourable Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, delivered the 20th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture, in eThekwini on 12 November 2022, in solidarity with the people of KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape. She addressed the theme: Social Bonding and Decolonisation in the Context of the Climate Crisis: Perspectives from the Global South.
Handover of photos of Nelson Mandela receiving an Honorary Degree Diploma by Soochow University. These photos including two certificates were handed over by Anthony Ho (Ambassador and Taiwanese representative to South Africa), Dr. Wei-ta Pan (President of Soochow University) and Director Angel Y.C.L Wu (Taiwan Foundation for Democracy) to the Chief Executive of the Foundation Sello Hatang during a handover ceremony that was held in the NMF auditorium on the 12th of April 2022.
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.
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.
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.
Photographs of the Centenary Annual Lecture with guests arriving, registrations, group photos with Barack Obama, the audience, all the speakers and a performance by the Soweto Gospel Choir.
Photographs of the stadium, and stands with Nelson Mandela merchandise. Photographs of the Centenary Annual Lecture with guests arriving, group photos with Barack Obama, the audience and all the speakers.
Photographs and group photographs of the Centenary Nelson Mandela annual lecture with guests arriving. Group photos of Mandela family, President Cyril Ramaphosa with President Barack Obama, Sello Hatang, Graca Machel, Professor Njabulo Ndebele, and Tshepo Motsepe. Also photographs of the annual lecture speakers.
Photographs of the Centenary Annual Lecture with guests arriving, group photos with Barack Obama, the audience and all the speakers. The photographs are from six different photographers.
On the 23rd of June, the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory hosted a handover ceremony in which Lourens and Lorato Labuschagne donated their Apartheid South African flag to the Nelson Mandela Foundation archives in exchange for the new South African flag. The ceremony was followed by an insightful and moving panel discussion with the Labuschagnes, Candice Mama, author of Forgiveness Redefined: A Young Woman’s Journey Towards Forgiving the Apartheid Assassin who Brutally Murdered Her Father and Gaongalelwe Tiro, author of Parcel of Death: The Biography of Onkgopotse Abram Tiro, facilitated by the Foundation’s Verne Harris.
Two consultations organised by the National Education Crisis Forum (NECF) in preparation of the Higher Education National Convention, with the aim of solving the crisis in higher education.
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.
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.
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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.
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
Nelson Mandela Foundation Invitational Golf Day which is set to raise funds to sustain the work of the Nelson Mandela Foundation while preserving and advancing Madiba’s legacy. The golf days were held in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
Nelson Mandela Foundation in partnership with Siya Kolisi Foundation and Boxers Supa store distributing food parcels to a refugee camp in Kensington, Cape Town.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation in partnership with Johannesburg City Parks, Zoo, Old Mutual, Gauteng Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Department of Forest, Fisheries and the Environment, Green Development Foundation, Meals on Wheels Community Services South Africa, as well as Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa commemorated the 9th anniversary of struggle icon Nelson Mandela’s passing by officially opening the Jukskei Park in Riverlea, in Johannesburg. The park will also be the symbolic home for the foundation’s ‘One Million Tree Campaign’, which aims to promote environmental justice and food security, while mitigating the impact of climate change.
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.
In his annual presidential address on 8 January 1986, ANC president Oliver Tambo called on South Africans to make apartheid ungovernable through armed action and militant struggle. But unknown to the world, on that very day, the quiet-spoken mathematics teacher and aspirant priest turned reluctant revolutionary had also set up a secret think tank in Lusaka, which he named the Constitution Committee, giving it an ‘ad hoc unique exercise’ that had ‘no precedent in the history of the movement’.
Knowing that all wars end at a negotiating table, and judging the balance of forces to be moving in favour of the liberation movement, Tambo wanted the
ANC to hold the initiative after the fall of apartheid. Assisted by Pallo Jordan, he instructed his new think tank to formulate the principles and draft the outlines of a constitution that could unite South Africa when the time came to talk in the fledgling days of freedom and democracy. The seven-member team, including Albie Sachs, Kader Asmal and Zola Skweyiya, started deliberating and reporting to Tambo. In correspondence, they typically addressed him as ‘Dear Comrade President’.
Drawing on the personal archives of participants, Dear Comrade President explains how the purposeful first steps were taken in the making of South Africa’s Constitution. Why and how did this process happen? What were the first written words? When and where were they put on paper? By whom? What values did they espouse? And how did the committee’s work fit into the broader struggle? This book answers these questions in new, paradigm-shifting ways.
Nelson Mandela Foundation staff having coffee and conversation with Eleonora Cost and her sister . NMF Archivist Zandile Myeka gave them a tour of the archive and Ann-young the NMF Exhibitions Co-ordinator gave them a tour of the temporary and permanent exhibitions.
Mr Graca Machel visiting the Nelson Mandela Foundation engaging with the temporary exhibition “Negotiating Democracy and meeting with the Chief Executive of the foundation Mr Sello Hatang. On the second visit to Sanctuary Mandela hotel, Mrs Machel and Mr Hatang receive a guided tour of the hotel.
Poli Poli is a remarkable history that speaks to African identity, close family bonds, belonging, struggle and sacrifice, women's rights and femininity, and is written with the lyricism and transporting detail of one of the country's greatest wordsmiths. Barbara Masekela powerfully conveys the realities of life under apartheid and illustrates the features and characteristics of life in a coal mining community like KwaGuqa in the 1940s, Alexandra township in the 1950s, and one of the oldest girls-only schools in KwaZulu-Natal, Inanda Seminary. The memoir follows her grandmother, a beer brewer and seller who lived through the aftermath of the South African War; her professional parents' determination to secure opportunities and safety for their children at a time when the state was shutting doors on the black people; and her university stint in Lesotho and departure into exile to Ghana in 1963.
A donation handover by the American Tower Foundation to the Nelson Mandela Foundation. Each One Feed One distribution to the community members of South Hills in Johanessburg. Nelson Mandela Foundation Chief Executive Sello Hatang, Yase Godlo Director of Mandela Day and volunteers helping with sorting and carrying food parcels to old and needy community members houses.
Mandela Day Tree Planting outside the premises of the Nelson Mandela Foundation with Green Development Foundation and the staff of the Nelson Mandela Foundation.
1 page of a printed desk calendar with handwritten notes covering the year of 1987. The calendar was used as a diary by Nelson Mandela while in prison and contains entries concerning matters such as visits, dreams, films, books, personal health and politics.
Visit by Green Development Foundation (GDF) to the Nelson Mandela Foundation, receives a guided tour of the archive, exhibitions and Madiba's post-presidential office.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation and Joburg City Parks & Zoo have collaborated to commemorate the 9th anniversary of the passing of Madiba. Over the years, the Foundation has marked the event through dialogue on critical social issues. This year the celebration was marked by a special Nelson Mandela Day convening, opening a park in the Riverlea community. The park will stand in honour of Madiba's legacy, and the values that he espoused. It will be the tangible site for our One Million Tree Campaign, which aims to promote environmental justice, and food security and mitigate the impact of climate change.
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.
International Women’s Forum of South Africa visits the Nelson Mandela Foundation, and receives a guided tour of the archive and the permanent exhibition from Sello Hatang.
Raimundo Robredo Rubio visits the Nelson Mandela Foundation and receives a guided tour of the temporary and permanent exhibitions including Nelson Mandela's post presidential office, and the archive.
Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund Annual Children’s Celebration and preferred site dedication ceremony for the establishment of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital.
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Photographs taken during the apartheid era. The library at the University of Fort Hare 1946, Nelson Mandela getting married to Winnie in 1958, Mandela and Winnie relaxing with friends, Mandela at a meeting in Addis Ababa during his trip through Africa 1962, Mandela and his eldest son Thembekile, and Mandela in Morocco to receive military training from Algerian Freedom Fighters.
A public launch by the Nelson Mandela Foundation held at the Donaldson Orlando Community Centre (now called YMCA). The Foundation launched a logo that will be the symbol of all the Nelson Mandela centenary activities. Seven schools were invited to the launch.
This volume critically examines sources of evidence and material from the archive that historically have been used to tell southern Africa’s pre-colonial story.
Rundela27, a long Run to Freedom road-running race in Gauteng that covered 27km, 13.5km and 5km, on 15 July 2018.The race formed part of the Nelson Mandela Centenary celebrations, which celebrated the birth, life and legacy of Madiba. Sport was one of the vehicles that Madiba used to drive unity. The route passed landmarks in Johannesburg that are dedicated to his name and memory.
Turkish delegation visiting the Nelson Mandela Foundation. They receive a guided tour of the permanent and Archive vault by exhibition coordinator, Ann-young Maharaj and Director of Archive and Research, Razia Saleh.
Award presented to Mr Mandela in appreciation of his vision, energy, and commitment towards safeguarding the World's protected areas and with gratitute for his role as Patron and Supporter of the 2003 5th World Parks Congress, Switzerland
Award recognizing the people of South Africa and Mr Mandela for their courage and strength in pursuing their freedom from apartheid and oppressive political rule, Jamaica
Award conferring the Dreamkeeper Award upon Mr Mandela for his lifelong struggle and commitment to Award from the University of Michigan, Office of Minority Affairs in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
The Nelson Mandela 5th Annual Lecture with Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary-General and Nobel laureate. The focuse of the Lecture was on the progress of Africa, that it needed to be balanced on three pillars: security, development and human rights.
Acknowledging the significant contribution to enhancing the quality of life for all individuals and/or groups who augment the richness of this great global society par partnering with the cause of justice and equality of all
