Past Dialogues

Two reflections from participants who attended the Shabbat Against Genocide on 16 February 2024. The event was attended by 300 people and was held on the lawns of the Foundation, in partnership with South African Jews for a Free Palestine (SAJFP).

The panellists offered a new perspective into early-childhood development provisioning, as it brought together stakeholders who approach the child care sector in diverse ways.

Assassinated anti-apartheid activist Dulcie September was commemorated in March 2021 when the Nelson Mandela Foundation joins with Freedom Park and EMS Productions to present the first Dulcie September Annual Lecture.

The advent of social media was revered as the world's next big thing. Two decades later, it is used as a weapon for fuelling social division, instead of social connection.

Three books have been published in recent months that address themes of fundamental importance to the Nelson Mandela Foundation. Each of them, in very different ways, explores the nexuses of archive-discourse, public-private and violence-peacemaking.

Since launching the programme Nelson Mandela – The Champion Within at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in 2012, over 10 000 first year students have participated in the programme as part of the university’s orientation week.

A not-for-profit online education initiative in South Africa, initiated and run by the Hanns Seidel Foundation. We offer free video and audio content as well as other learning resources aiming to inform and to strengthen democratic values and responsible citizenship.

An event to mark five years since Madiba’s passing and to recognise the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence. The event focused on how we purposefully create a caring society that prioritises women and adolescents and creates the conditions for a dignified life.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation partnered with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Global Leadership Academy to bring together participants from countries worldwide to engage in a series of dialogues on memory work

These multi-stakeholder consultations were the first of its kind and were borne of the regionalisation and the decentralisation of the UNHCR.

A dialogue on two bills that particularly affect people living in rural South Africa the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill and the Traditional Courts Bill. 

Two years since the end of the majority of student protests in South Africa, a number of books, articles and documentaries have taken the stage and broad meta-narratives are firmly gaining traction.

South Africa is on the cusp of a systemic crisis in education. The education crisis affects all levels of education in South Africa – from early childhood development through to tertiary education.

Being able to access information could have an enormous impact on all South Africans, who would then be able to question where and why money was being spent.

The NMF Centre of Memory and Dialogue Community Conversations are a continuation of work started in late 2007, focusing on HIV prevention.

The NMF Centre of Memory and Dialogue community conversations are a continuation of work started in late 2007 focusing on HIV prevention.

The Malibongwe Dialogue, with and about stalwarts of the struggle for freedom, and the role that women played during those difficult, and often truly dark years, achieved a remarkable level of candour, unmindful of organisational or ideological loyalties.

How do we ensure that all the advances in science and all the available evidence on HIV/AIDS get through to communities in order to achieve the transformation they want?

The year 2031 will mark the passage of 50 years from the first report of AIDS, and an international consortium of partners called aids2031 has been formed to look at what can be done now to change the face of the pandemic by that time.

Women from business, NGOs and government met on International Women’s Day under the auspices of the departments of trade and industry and arts and culture, to discuss empowerment of women and ways of fighting against poverty.

The Youth Community Dialogues were a series of events held in South Africa in 2007, funded by the Nelson Mandela Foundation. The series led up to the 46664 concert on December 1, 2007, World AIDS Day.

The Youth Community Dialogues were a series of events held in South Africa in 2007, funded by the Nelson Mandela Foundation. The series led up to the 46664 concert on December 1, 2007, World AIDS Day.

In 2006 the Nelson Mandela Foundation commissioned Save the Children UK to develop a “caring school” model in 25 schools in the Free State, South Africa.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation hosted a dialogue, in which former US President Bill Clinton argued there was an urgent need for people to recognise that they are more similar than different.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation, in partnership with UNAIDS and the Human Sciences Research Council, hosted a satellite session at the 3rd South African AIDS Conference in Durban.

The challenges of covering of HIV and AIDS are varied and complex. Journalists need to understand the sometimes difficult science behind, for example, vaccine and microbicide trials, in order to report them well.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation convened a dialogue session on November 17 2006 to gain input from diverse role-players on the Draft HIV and AIDS and STI Strategic Plan for South Africa, 2007–2011.

Ths dialogue brought key stakeholders together to share lessons on models of delivery of antiretroviral treatment in resource-limited settings in South Africa.

Various publications emanating from dialogues hosted by the Nelson Mandela Foundation.