April 21, 2011 – Head of the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s Memory Programme, Verne Harris, will be delivering the 18th Alan Paton Lecture on May 5, 2011. He will be speaking on the subject “Madiba, Memory and the Work of Justice”.
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The Memory Programme recently discovered a previously unpublished letter from Nelson Mandela to Alan Paton, dated July 29, 1979.
Programme Senior Researcher Sahm Venter found it while reading through all Mr Mandela’s extant prison correspondence in the National Archives. The letter was intercepted by the prison censors and never reached its destination.
Click here to download the Transcript of Mr Mandela’s letter to Alan Paton.
Please click on the scanned documents to view larger images of the letter
