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Making Reading Fun

Photographs of the Making Reading Fun event held on the 24th of June 2023 at the Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF).

Dakada, Mandlenkosi

Making Reading Fun

Making Reading Fun event held on the 29th of July 2024 at the Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF), Houghton.

Dakada, Mandlenkosi

Making Reading Fun Programme, 2023, Houghton: [Set of still images]

Making Reading Fun is an initiative of the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s Archive and Research department, which aims to make reading a much more fun activity for the future leaders of our country. The initiative targets different age groups each time, with this month’s reading aimed at our youth between 6 and 12 years of age.

Various

Making Reading Fun launch

Making Reading Fun was launched on 15 April 2023 to encourage reading and literacy among South Africa’s children, and to impart knowledge of Mandela’s extraordinary life story, and his values, which are celebrated worldwide.

Dakada, Mandlenkosi

21st Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture and events, 2023.12., Johannesburg: [Set of still images]

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  • 2023-12-03 - 2023-12-06
Photographs of the 21st Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture delivered by Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai, the post-lecture donor dinner, a dialogue programme held at the Nelson Mandela Foundation "Conversation Convening with Malala", Malala’s tour of the Apartheid Museum, and her visit to the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory.

Various

Exploring Madiba's Graphic Heritage, 2023.03.03, Houghton: [Set of 149 Still images]

Nelson Mandela continues to be memorialised in different ways all over the world. For this reason, the workshop shared new insights from the Memorialising Mandela in the Metropolis project at Loughborough University that explores the relationship between toponymy, graphic images, cultural heritage, and place making, in locations named after Madiba. Perspectives from academia, Nelson Mandela Foundation, creative industries, and delegate participation, were synthesised in the context of research undertaken in South Africa, Brazil, and United Kingdom. The workshop ended with a session on knowledge exchange and research opportunities for future collaboration.

Molelekoa, Sophia

Orlando High School celebrating 80 years of producing leaders, 2019.09.24, Orlando: [1 Still image]

Orlando High School celebrating 80 years of producing leaders. Orlando High School started with only 5 learners at Communal Hall in 1932. The late former president of South Africa’s younger sister, Nomabandla Leaby Mandela also attended Orlando High in 1945 and her son, Makgatho Mandela later joined the school in 1967 along with Zwelakhe Sisulu.

Unknown

Unequal Stories Collection

Arial photos taken in Cape Town areas, showing inequality in living conditions
The photos are taken in Hout Bay/Imizamo Yethu, Manenberg/Phola Park, Strand/Nomzamo and Masiphumelele/Lake Michelle in the period 18 April - 10 May 2016.

Miller, Johnny

Is’thunzi’ Sabafazi: A conversation that speaks to building a caring and just society that transforms itself to achieve equality between men and women in South Africa, 2018.11.29, Soweto: [Still images]

The Nelson Mandela Foundation with the Graça Machel Trust, Kuhluka Movement, and Zoleka Mandela Foundation hosted an event as part of the "Remembrance period" to mark five years since Madiba’s passing and to recognize the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence.

The event aimed at focusing on purposefully create a caring society that prioritizes women and adolescents and creates the conditions for a dignified life, in a society like South Africa where the murder rate of women is three times the global average and 68.5% of women have experienced some form of sexual violence.

Distilled Photography

Dialogue: Africa-European Economic Relations, from Alienation to Co-operation, 2012.11.26: [Set of 107 Still Images]

Photos of a dialogue held at Glenhove Conference Centre, Johannesburg, facilitated by the Nelson Mandela Foundation in partnership with Brand South Africa. Africa-European economic relations and the challenge of overcoming financial and political alienation was the focus of the dialogue.
Participants included Finnish Minister of European Affairs and Foreign Trade, Dr. Alex Stubb, who led the discussion, and Master of Ceremonies for the event, Dr.Petrus de Kock from Brand South Africa.

Osman, Shizeeda

Tenjiwe Christina Kaba donates her old dompas to the Nelson Mandela Foundation, 2023.02.16: [Set of 72 Still images]

Tenjiwe Christina Kaba née Nyushu donates her old dompas to the Nelson Mandela Foundation. Ma Christina’s dompas depicts the various regions she was allowed to reside in and has a section where her permanent or home address is listed. It is signed by the Chief/Headman.

Dakada, Mandlenkosi

20th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture by Mia Mottley, 2022.11.12, eThekwini: [Set of 1059 Still images]

The Honourable Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, delivered the 20th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture, in eThekwini on 12 November 2022, in solidarity with the people of KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape. She addressed the theme: Social Bonding and Decolonisation in the Context of the Climate Crisis: Perspectives from the Global South.

Various

This Land Screening Summary

25 screenings of “This Land” documentary followed by dialogues in various areas in South Africa.

Plexus Films

Ilan Ossendryver Collection: [Set of 254 Still Images]

Three (3) sub-series of photographs by Ilan Ossendryver.
1. Photos of Nelson Mandela and family took after the press conference in Soweto, probably on 13 or 14 February 1990, just after his release. Photos are taken in the front of his house with nurses greeting him, schoolgirls at the fence. Portraits and full photos of Mandela standing with a raised fist. Close-ups of Mandela with Zindzi Mandela and baby and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Murphy Morobe and Zwelakwe Sisulu are also in the photos.

2. Photos of Nelson Mandela casting his vote at the voting station in Houghton, Johannesburg. Zindziswa Mandela is in the photos.

3. Photos of Nelson Mandela attending Arbor day in Soweto holding a spade and planting a tree. Machel, Graça both seated greeting children dressed in green Arbor week T-shirts and yellow hats. Ahmed Kathrada is also in the photos.

Ossendryver, Ilan

Worlds Aids Day: Nelson Mandela and Premier Winkie Direko, 2002.12.01, Bloemfontein: [Set of 60 Still Images]

Nelson Mandela attending the World Aids Day event with Premier Winkie Direko at Bloemfontein (South Africa). The images show: the building wrapped in aids ribbons, Opening ceremony, Mandela lighting candle, Mandela holding speech – huge ribbons as background and ‘good leaders lead’ banner, and Mandela greeting children.

Gool, Benny

The Nelson Mandela Foundation commemorates the 9th Anniversary of Madiba’s Passing through its One Million Tree Campaign, 2022.012.05, Riverlea: [Set of 47 Still images]

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  • 2022-12-05
The Nelson Mandela Foundation and Joburg City Parks & Zoo have collaborated to commemorate the 9th anniversary of the passing of Madiba. Over the years, the Foundation has marked the event through dialogue on critical social issues. This year the celebration was marked by a special Nelson Mandela Day convening, opening a park in the Riverlea community. The park will stand in honour of Madiba's legacy, and the values that he espoused. It will be the tangible site for our One Million Tree Campaign, which aims to promote environmental justice, and food security and mitigate the impact of climate change.

Abrahams, Earl

Mandela Day Library opened at Skeen Primary School, 2014.09.06, Alexandra: [Set of 11 Images]

On 6 September 2014, right in the middle of National Literacy Week, students and educators at Skeen Primary School in Alexandra township, Johannesburg, celebrated the opening of the school’s Mandela Day container library.
The library is the 49th facility of it kind to open since the launch of the Mandela Day container library project in 2012.

Orgill, Jade

The 14th annual CycAlive challenge to honour Mandela Day, 2011.08.21, Norwood: [Set of 66 Still Images]

150 learners, teachers and cycling enthusiasts convened at the Torah Academy campus in Norwood, Johannesburg, for the 14th annual CycAlive challenge, a youth highlight in the Mandela Day activities calendar.
Field Band Foundation from Springs, Rabbi Dovid Hazdan -the dean of the Torah Academy, Dan Zimba, Rabbi Mottie Hadar, Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein, Sello Hatang, Marlene Bethlehem, Lelo Mzaca, a 702 sports, Johannesburg Steelwings Harley Davidson Club-who arrived to show their support, and Ian Freeman of RAM.

Flow Communications (Pty) Ltd

Nelson Mandela 20th Annual Lecture

The Honourable Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, delivered the 20th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture in eThekwini on 12 November 2022, in solidarity with the people of KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape, who have suffered from flooding linked to climate change.

Old Mutual

Dinner

The 20th Nelson Mandela post lecture dinner held at Nelson Mandela cruise terminal in Durban. The Ocean Terminal is the primary facility serving cruise ships on the eastern seaboard of Southern Africa.

Old Mutual

NMF and AIG handover of toys to Tara Hospital, 2014.02.07, Johannesburg: [Set of 29 Still Images]

AIG Angel Wings Club, as part of its charity drive, donated toys, books and stationery, paid for by members of staff. The donation was channelled through the Nelson Mandela Foundation with clinical psychologist Jonathan Percale, CEO of Tara Hospital, Dr Florence Otienno and other senior staff presents.

Flow Communications (Pty) Ltd

Supreme chief of the Tembu Jongintaba Dalindyebo with his wife, 1929.10.11, Eastern Cape: [Still Image]

Supreme chief of the Tembu Jongintaba Dalindyebo with his wife. He became Nelson Mandela’s guardian after the death of Mandela’s father. Nelson Mandela lived at the homestead of Jongintaba from the age of 9 until 16 and was raised together with Jongintaba's children.

Moravian Archives

Luyolo Stengile Collection, 1938, Healdtown: [8 Photographic Prints]

Photos of Healdtown College. In the Class photograph are, among others: Nelson Mandela (back row, fifth from the right), Myrtle Workman (white woman), Rev. Arthur Wellington (next to Myrtle), Rev. S. M. Mokitimi (next to Wellington), Jane Methola (next to Mokitimi) and Gilbert Nzimani (behind Mokitimi).

Stengile, Luyolo

Matthew Willman, 2018.07.17, Johannesburg: [Set of 255 Still Images]

Photographs and group photographs of the Centenary Nelson Mandela annual lecture with guests arriving. Group photos of Mandela family, President Cyril Ramaphosa with President Barack Obama, Sello Hatang, Graca Machel, Professor Njabulo Ndebele, and Tshepo Motsepe. Also photographs of the annual lecture speakers.

Willman, Matthew

Oppressive Pasts and Healing: From othering to belonging, 2022.06.23, Houghton: [Set of 54 Still images]

On the 23rd of June, the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory hosted a handover ceremony in which Lourens and Lorato Labuschagne donated their Apartheid South African flag to the Nelson Mandela Foundation archives in exchange for the new South African flag. The ceremony was followed by an insightful and moving panel discussion with the Labuschagnes, Candice Mama, author of Forgiveness Redefined: A Young Woman’s Journey Towards Forgiving the Apartheid Assassin who Brutally Murdered Her Father and Gaongalelwe Tiro, author of Parcel of Death: The Biography of Onkgopotse Abram Tiro, facilitated by the Foundation’s Verne Harris.

Abrahams, Earl

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