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The Nelson Mandela Foundation through the Centre of Memory and Dialogue contributes to the making of a just society by promoting the values, vision and work of our Founder.
The Dialogue Programme promotes and facilitates dialogue around critical social issues within communities and between communities, business, policy makers and the media.
The Memory Programme is an integrated information resource on the life and times of Nelson Mandela, facilitating global access to the public, to scholars, and fellow memory institutions.
PROGRAMME
January to December: Community dialogues to promote peaceful co-existence between people of different nationalities living in the same community. Read more.
View the full programme of the Centre of Memory and Dialogue's plans for 2009
RECENT NEWS
Hunger for Freedom wins prestigious award
July 2, 2009 – Hunger for Freedom: The Story of Food in the Life of Nelson Mandela has won a Special Jury prize in the “Oscars” of food books from around the world.
The prize for the book, published by Jacana Media in association with the Nelson Mandela Foundation in 2008, was presented at the 14th Gourmand World Cook Book Awards ceremony in Paris, France yesterday evening.
RECENT NEWS
Healing starts with understanding history
June 26, 2009 – The need for healing to overcome the divisions of the past emerged as the central concern at a community conversation in Atteridgeville, near Pretoria, on June 20.
Organised by the Nelson Mandela Foundation in partnership with the Sonke Gender Justice Network, the Jesuit Refugee Services, the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, the National Children’s and Violence Trust, and the Somali Association of South Africa, the community conversation in Atteridgeville was the first of a series of community dialogues in Gauteng province to promote social cohesion in communities affected by violence and xenophobia.
RECENT NEWS
Nelson Mandela visits Freedom Park
July 2, 2009 – Nelson Mandela today visited Freedom Park in Pretoria. This was Madiba’s first visit to the park.
In 1999 Nelson Mandela said “the day should not be far off when we shall have a people’s shrine, a freedom park, where we shall honour, with all the dignity they deserve, those who endured pain so we should experience the joy of freedom.”
He was describing Freedom Park, which he visited today.
