2019 Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity issue a racial justice call to action To those who believe in fairness and equal justice: We, the 2019 cohort of the Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity, call…
"Never, never and never again" May has seen the Nelson Mandela Foundation preoccupied with emergency relief work and the selection of a new cohort for…
Stimulus plan needed for rural education We come together united by a long-term commitment to education and rural development, to motivate that we approach the Covid-19…
Finding dignity in regulating responses to Covid-19 Covid-19 is presenting humanity with an enormous challenge as it faces a global crisis on a scale not experienced in…
Preschool closures threat: Early childhood development sector faces major closures as parents scramble for fees Without government intervention, close to one million children could be stranded by the time early childhood development centres are due to…
The time to do different is now Foundation CE Sello Hatang writes that, while mistakes will be made, South Africa must soldier on in its efforts to…
More than a million children, thousands of ECD operators at risk without state support If 30 000 ECD programmes serving vulnerable communities stop operating due to South Africa's Covid-19 lockdown, it would mean that…
May we rise to the challenge To reflect on anything other than Covid-19 is unimaginable, for obvious reasons. Not in my lifetime has our country’s imagination,…
UnThere Kentridge - White People but Black Bodies Read here and be introduced to the strong feelings, informed by South Africa's turbulent history, William Kentridge's art evokes in Nelson Mandela…
Thirty years after Madiba returned Nelson Mandela Foundation CE Sello Hatang's March 2020 letter, looking back on a busy February full of significant moments: from the…
Nelson Mandela’s release and the unimagined dream Thirty years ago, a 71-year-old Nelson Mandela walked out of the then-Victor Verster prison, an hour’s drive away from Cape…
UnThere us: An account of the violence of heterosexual marriage identity-making The undeniable, incontestable, bona fide truth about the “New South Africa” is that its mother and father are Karabo Moroka…
Country of Madiba's dreams Nelson Mandela Foundation Chief Executive Sello Hatang looks to the Foundation's 2020's goals, and reflects on its 2019 achievements in…
Dig deeper to dream bigger The Foundation's CE Sello Hatang reflects on South Africa's Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng's delivery of the 2019 Nelson Mandela Annual…
Queering queer discourse: Advocating for recognition of the existence of queer people To be queer is an unhappy state of affairs. It means to be in protest of the way society prefers…
Learning to dream again In recent weeks we have been reminded again of how strongly populism is running in our country, writes Foundation CE…
Building a culture of peace September found the Foundation travelling in response to invitations to visit Mexico City, Ramallah, London, Toronto, New York and the…
Ukuthunuka “I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.…
South Africa is still possible Recent manifestations in South Africa of femicide, of men killing women because they are women, of attacks on people perceived…
Flying the flag for change Why does the Nelson Mandela Foundation fight in the Equality Court to have displays of the apartheid national flag declared to…
