Photo gallery: Mandela Day 2009
Bafana Bafana captain Aaron Mokoena and Nelson Mandela in their Mandela Day T-shirts
The South African national football team, Bafana Bafana, and Nelson Mandela all wearing their Mandela Day T-shirts
South Africa football coach Joel Santana and Nelson Mandela in their Mandela Day T-shirts
Nelson Mandela wearing a Mandela Day T-shirt
Football star Clarence Seedorf, wearing the Mandela Day T-shirt, sits with Nelson Mandela at the Nelson Mandela Foundation
Former Mozambique national Frank Mashaba practices before his performance at the event
(Image:
Nelson Mandela Foundation)
Speakers at the Mandela Day celebration in Atteridgeville
(Image:
Greg Wright)
Traditional dancers entertain the crowd at the Mandela Day celebration in Atteridgeville
(Image:
Greg Wright)
Conference Connection staff visited the Reservoir Hills informal settlement in Durban to hand out blankets
(Image:
Selvi Howitz)
Members of the Delta Environmental Centre demonstrate how to build an environmentally friendly food tower
Cindy Airey committed to training a guide dog to give a blind person more independence as part of her Mandela Day activities
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Cindy Airey)
The Imizamo Yethu Waste Task team spent the morning cleaning the streets of the informal settlement in Hout Bay, Cape Town.
(Image:
Clare-Louise Thomas)
The Imizamo Yethu Waste Task team spent the morning cleaning the streets of the informal settlement in Hout Bay, Cape Town.
(Image:
Clare-Louise Thomas)
Great Park Synagogue and MaAfrika Tikkun collected blankets, food and clothes on July 19.
The Great Park Synagogue in conjunction with MaAfrika Tikkun collected blankets, food and clothing on July 19
Moyo staff in Cape Town took food parcels and entertainment to a care-centre for disabled children in Khayelitsha
(Image:
Simone Scholtz)
Moyo staff in Cape Town took food parcels and entertainment to a care-centre for disabled children in Khayelitsha
(Image:
Simone Scholtz)
The children at Nazareth House in Cape Town had a party to celebrate Mandela Day
The children at Nazareth House in Cape Town had a party to celebrate Mandela Day
Five year old Nolwazi Worthington baked a super-hero cake and muffins for the staff at the Princess Alice Adoption Home, the home where she lived for the first few months of her life
Roedean learners write a list of 67 things to do on Mandela Day
Roedean learners make sandwiches for the needy
Scorpion Legal Protection delivered lunch to the Durban Children's Home
Scorpion Legal Protection delivered lunch to the Durban Children's Home on Mandela Day
The Thusanang Foundation are converting a dumping ground into a park as part of their ongoing committment to Mandela Day
The Thusanang Foundation in Hammanskraal cleaned a dumping site to turn it into a park
Tracker staff handed out food parcels, blankets, clothes and shoes to the Dobsonville and Slovoville informal settlements residents on Mandela Day
Tracker staff supported Mandela Day by handing out blankets, clothes and food to informal settlement residents
The Merritt family baked a cake and gave it to the staff at the Kempton Park Police Station