Between the Map and the Empire, We Make Each Other Human Again Nonzuzo Gxekwa is a photography-based artist living and working in Johannesburg. Her new retrospective publication is a meditation on Johannesburg,…
Always remember A trip to New York to retrace Madiba's footsteps there is what loomed largest for the Foundation in September 2022,…
A leader is not a lone genius, but a joyous human being What is effective leadership? The Foundation's Kneo Mokgopa, Manager: Narrative Development at the Foundation, explores the concept.
Building lasting legacies South Africans must continue to build lasting legacies like those of human rights advocate George Bizos and Nelson Mandela, writes…
Moeggesukkel – Tired of Suffering: Asset-Based Community Development in Action The resilience of the inhabitants of the Eastern Cape informal settlement of Moeggesukkel has informed the development of the Foundation's…
Mandela Day: an interview with Ethel Arends We speak to one of the Foundation's longest-serving staff members, Ethel Arends, about Mandela Day.
This moment is a call for leadership The month of Madiba’s birth, Mandela Month, is always special for the Foundation. This year we had much to celebrate,…
What would Madiba say? Khanya Ralarala, an intern in the Foundation’s Information and Communication Technologies and Facilities department reflects on how far we have…
Vangasali: an instrument to drive an "ECD for all" agenda A report on the training on early childhood development the Foundation has provided to provincial education officials over the past…
Constitutionalism and the rule of law in South Africa As many recent studies have shown, in South Africa trust in the law and all its institutional instruments has not…
Waiting for liberation The deaths of 21 children in a tavern in East London and experiences from doing charity work in Eswatini are…
Vuleka Mhlaba (What Would Happen if Madiba Returned?) I remember the day Nelson Mandela returned, exactly thirty years after his death. On that day, a hole emerged and…
If planning is everything, maybe it's nothing? The impacts of spatial apartheid planning have been so vast that even today our planning still creates an opportunity for…
Let's build the nation of Madiba's dreams I always feel a terrible pull in opposite directions – on the one hand, I am often inspired by the…
The importance of education to Madiba A letter Nelson Mandela wrote from Robben Island in 1970 portrays how much Madiba valued education.
Building a new politics from the ground up This year, Freedom Day arrived amid a crisis of political accountability. By now, the headlines are familiar—the most recent elections…
One blow too many For the Foundation, the month of April has been dominated by the most catastrophic flooding in almost three decades, which…
From othering to belonging Foundation CE Sello Hatang reflects on human migration and its causes, and on xenophobia and reactions to refugees, in South…
Anant Singh in conversation with Caiphus Semenya and Gcina Mhlope at Sanctuary Mandela On the 8th of March 2022, the Nelson Mandela Foundation hosted an event to promote the recently published memoir of…
