On 30 January 2013 the 23rd Mandela Day container library was opened at Linge Junior Secondary School in Nyanga, the Western Cape. The library was sponsored by Irish Distillers, a company based in Dublin.
More than 200 members of staff from Dublin’s Irish Distillers arrived in Cape Town a week earlier for the group’s annual conference. Part of the visitors’ itinerary included a trip to Robben Island, where they learnt about Nelson Mandela and his contribution to the political struggle for freedom in South Africa. Here the group presented a symbolic cheque for the container library to Tim Smith, of Breadline Africa, and Frank Meintjies, of the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory.
On 30 January a smaller contingent of staff members, about 60 people, travelled to Linge Junior Secondary School in Nyanga for the opening of the sponsored library.