April 6, 2011 – The Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory is appealing to the public to assist us in finding missing information to accompany many photographs we have in our collection.
We’ll be publishing many of these photos on our website in the coming months and ask you to complete the information by commenting in our gallery if you have any of the following information regarding each photograph:
- Who the un-identified people in the photo are
- Who the photographer is
- When and where the photo was taken
- Who the copyright holder is
Please add your comment and any relevant further information in the comment box at the bottom of the page. Please remember to identify the photograph you are referring to, e.g. "Mysterious Mandela photgraph1".
The first six of many photographs we ask the public to help identify are:
Mysterious Mandela photograph 1
Mandela with a group of people, wearing a Texan hat. The photo is signed by some of the people in the photograph: Walter Crews and Dep. Chief Chuck Cook amongst them. The photo was possibly taken in the USA.
Mysterious Mandela photograph 2
Blade Nzimande and Fidel Castro with Blade showing off the t-shirt he is wearing, which shows images of Castro and Mr Mandela, who stands behind them. Taken in front of Mr Mandela’s Houghton home.
Mysterious Mandela photograph 3
Mr Mandela holding a child.
Mysterious Mandela photograph 4
Graça Machel and Nelson Mandela seated next to each other, possibly taken in Qunu.
Mysterious Mandela photograph 5
Nelson Mandela and Oprah Winfrey at the Christmas Kindness event in KwaZulu-Natal on November12 , 2002.
Mysterious Mandela photograph 6
Nelson Mandela inside an aeroplane. A steward stands behind him. Jakes Gerwel is standing in the aisle.
Members of the public are invited to contribute to building this important resource.