Reckoning with the Past

Part of the Nelson Mandela Foundation's work is aimed at making sense of South Africa's troubled past. This is done through various projects, dialogues and exhibitions, among others.

Nelson Mandela International Dialogues

The Nelson Mandela Foundation is partnering with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Global Leadership Academy, which is commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), to bring together participants from countries worldwide to engage in a series of dialogues on memory work: the Nelson Mandela International Dialogues.

Exhibitions and events

Reconciliation Nqaba

Reckoning with South Africa’s past

On 4 October 2018, the Nelson Mandela Foundation launched an online archival collection of the hundreds of documents that were…

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Listening to the Rivonia Trial: Courts, Archives and the Liberation Movements

The evening of 26 September at the Nelson Mandela Foundation opened the scientific colloquium "Listening to the Rivonia Trial: Courts,…

Ballot Box

To find freedom we must turn to the past

Did we find freedom on 27 April 1994? What did this moment mean for the undoing of centuries of colonial…

Innovative new book on Project Coast turns readers into investigators

What do we really know about the apartheid state’s secretive chemical and biological warfare programme, Project Coast? How much will…

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Reckoning with Pasts

It is of critical importance that South Africa’s chemical and biological warfare programme, Project Coast, should never be allowed to…

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Remembering Madiba

“For as long as the natural state of the black South African is poor and the natural state of the…