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…
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…
