Media Statement: Talking Human Rights is not Living Human Rights The Nelson Mandela Foundation observes with a heavy heart the growing number of voices of discontent and the alarming rise…
Media statement on the passing of Joe Mafela The Nelson Mandela Foundation joins the rest of South Africa in extending our deepest condolences to the Mafela family following…
No central understanding of "a dignified life" There is no central understanding about what needs to be done to ensure all South Africans can live a dignified…
Take on racism this Anti-Racism Week: 14 to 21 March 2017 ARNSA’s second annual Anti-Racism Week kicks off on 14 March, and ends on 21 March, which is South Africa’s Human…
Mandela Day libraries, laboratories and an improved pass rate for Bushbuckridge schools Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga congratulated organisations like the Nelson Mandela Foundation that invested in schools in South Africa when…
The Mandela Dialogues 2: observations on the process The Mandela Dialogues provide an international forum to discuss the complex personal, collective and professional challenges facing those engaged in…
Fundraisers break ground in South Africa A team of 167 volunteers from 24 Norton Rose Fulbright offices recently descended on Johannesburg for the law firm’s Nelson…
Inclusion in the future The rise in xenophobic, nationalistic, Islamophobic and antisemitic politics has become a global concern. Some powerful nations with economic, political…
Making history while building communities in the Eastern Free State Several local, national and international role players signed the Ficksburg Declaration at EarthRise Mountain Lodge, outside the town, on Monday…
Reflections from the 2016 Mandela Dialogues In 2016, the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the Global Leadership Academy of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) convened…
Nelson Mandela Foundation calls out the growing behaviour of ‘othering’ among Africans The Nelson Mandela Foundation strongly condemns attacks on those perceived to be foreigners in South Africa. This is the latest…
The Nelson Mandela Foundation hosts FIFA delegation Today the Nelson Mandela Foundation hosted the President of FIFA Gianni Infantino and the first woman Secretary-General Fatma Samba Diouf…
Time to invoke and live the legacy of Madiba Over the past two weeks, at least two important Mandela milestones came to pass, writes Tinyiko Maluleke.
Celebrating 11 February – Nelson Mandela’s first walk to freedom Twenty-seven years ago, on 10 February 1990, millions of South Africans and others across the globe waited with bated breath…
Time for us to take things into our own hands Nelson Mandela 100 allows us to scale up our projects and continue working towards building the country Madiba envisaged. Madiba…
Find the Madiba within and Be the Legacy Find the Nelson Mandela within you and be the legacy he left in the world, the Nelson Mandela Foundation said…
The launch of the Nelson Mandela Centenary 2018 programme in Soweto Today the Nelson Mandela Foundation unveiled "Nelson Mandela Centenary 2018 Be the Legacy", a two-year programme to honour its founder,…
Media Statement: Marking 27 years since Nelson Mandela’s release This week marks an important moment in the history of South Africa. Twenty-seven years ago the world watched as Nelson…
Media alert: Remembering Madiba’s first days of freedom As part of the commemoration of Nelson Mandela’s release week, the Nelson Mandela Foundation invites you to a public event…
Foundation saddened by passing of Brian Widlake The Nelson Mandela Foundation has been saddened to hear of the death of veteran journalist and television presenter Brian Widlake,…