'A Lawyer’s Odyssey: Apartheid, Mandela and Beyond' Verne Harris, Head: Leadership & Knowledge Development, reviews a new book written by human rights lawyer Henry Brown, who represented…
The Bonds that Bind Us: Remembering Madiba in a Time of Global Fracture Just Mandela's walk to freedom was long, so should we not expect the walk of our continent or the walk…
A democracy to come Along with the extraordinary challenges and suffering brought about by Covid-19, 2020 has been a year in which the world…
Over a hundred thousand kilometres to the middle of nowhere How the Foundation's Mandela Day Director Yase Godlo found the middle of nowhere while delivering food parcels to the needy…
Taking race discussions beyond the usual An interview with Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity's Sebabatso Manoeli on the Race Beyond Borders podcast series.
My archives intern journey Since joining the archive team, I have been on an amazing learning curve and have hopefully been a benefit to…
Unthere Men: Indoda Mayibe critically discussed There does not seem to be a linear way to discuss men simply for the reason that their lives and…
A crisis of imagination While the crisis humanity is facing feels like a material one, a practical one, in fact, ultimately, it is a…
Stop calling Breonna Taylor’s killing a 'tragedy’ Using the word tragedy to describe Breonna Taylor’s killing is an insult to her memory, write Jemele Hill.
Legacies of leadership In a world arguably increasingly defined by terrible failures of leadership, Achmat Dangor, George Bizos and Ruth Bader Ginsburg are role…
Unthere: Reflections on Nonconforming Gender “It is a country where black and white are like islands in the middle of some vast ocean, where between…
Needed: A new social contract Foundation CE Sello Hatang writes of South Africa's need for social healing to mend the tears caused by patriarchy, corruption,…
Lakhal'ixilongo - pursuing a new kind of politics The deaths of Zindziswa Mandela — a diplomat, activist and daughter of Nelson and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela — and that of…
Oh Jehova! Not another ‘rupture’ – the ‘new normal’ petit bourgeois revolution If anything, the Covid-19 crisis in South Africa should animate an intersectional, inclusive and revolutionary intention to rebuild the means by…
A new world order The month of July is always a cluttered one for the Nelson Mandela Foundation, as we remember Madiba on his…
Making liberatory global futures The Foundation's Sello Hatang and Khalil Goga on how United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres's ideals, set out in the 2020 Nelson…
Community development ‘yet-to-come’ during and post the Covid-19 pandemic: from Derrida to Zubof This article, written as a dialogue between two authors, one in Australia (Westoby) and one in South Africa (Harris), outline…
The collective shame for us all after Qholani's treatment The Covid-19 pandemic provides even more time to reflect on the sort of society we have become even as the…
‘We have no Harlem in Sudan’ A white, off-duty New York policeman fires three fatal shots at a black teenage boy. Sparked by this senseless killing and…
Can we solve hunger in South Africa? When people’s need for water, food and shelter isn’t met, the result is catastrophic for the individual, their family and…
