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.
Mandela day library book club launch at Protea Glen secondary school, and handover of the library to the school by Kaya FM in partnership with the Nelson Mandela Foundation.
Nelson Mandela Day Initiative at Hillbrow boxing club made possible by Nelson Mandela Foundation Staff contributions that were meant to buy staff member Khalil Goga a wedding gift, Johannesburg.
The Vakhegula Vakhegula Football Club (Gogos for Mandela) at the Discovery Soccer Park at the Wanderers Club in Johannesburg. The Gogos are warming up before playing against the Orlando Pirates. With players Katlego Mashego, club owner, Beka Ntswanwisi, Christina “Maradona” Machebe and SuperSport United defender, Morgan Gould.
Opening of the exhibition “Mandela – Character Comrade Leader Prisoner Negotiator Statesman” at the Apartheid Museum. The red Mercedes was part of the exhibition.
Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics, Thomas Piketty, presenting the 2015 Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture at the University of Johannesburg’s Soweto Campus. Photos were taken before, during and after the lecture.
Nelson Mandela's 85th birthday at the Sandton Convention Centre. Only 1 print is with Mandela. With major national and international political, cultural and business people.
Nelson Mandela Foundation staff having coffee and conversation with Eleonora Cost and her sister . NMF Archivist Zandile Myeka gave them a tour of the archive and Ann-young the NMF Exhibitions Co-ordinator gave them a tour of the temporary and permanent exhibitions.
Photographs of the one-day international colloquium to reflect on the present and historical significance of the recently restored Rivonia Trial sound archive, as part of the opening and study of the apartheid archives in South Africa, at IFAS - Institut Français d'Afrique du Sud at no. 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein, Johannesburg.
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.
Mandela's 85th birthday celebration. Mandela and Graça Machel greeting children, a big birthday cake, kids in wheelchairs wearing NMF shirts. Taken outdoors under a marque.
Nelson Mandela Remembrance Walk and Run held in Tshwane, Pretoria, to commemorate and celebrate the legacy of Nelson Mandela. Speakers George Bizos, Sophie de Bruyn, runners and walkers, and the announcement of the winners.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation’s CEO, Sello Hatang all geared up to conquer Mount Kilimanjaro. Hatang will be joined by 36 other climbers on Monday 13 July 2015 to challenge the Kilimanjaro.
Nelson Mandela Day Initiative at Hillbrow boxing club made possible by Nelson Mandela Foundation Staff contributions that were meant to buy staff member Khalil Goga a wedding gift, Johannesburg.
Mandela Day activity by the "Great South African Cookbook" in Molobanyane Cooperative and Lenin Drive Garden, Alexandra, Johannesburg. With ‘Food and Trees for Africa’.
Launch of the Norton Rose Fulbright Mandela Day initiative at the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the start of building Menzi home for disabled children.
Video of the ninth Nelson Mandela annual lecture by Ismail Serageldin (the founding director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the new Library of Alexandria) held at the Linder auditorium, Wits University, Johannesburg.
Photographs of the Centenary Annual Lecture with guests arriving, registrations, group photos with Barack Obama, the audience, all the speakers and a performance by the Soweto Gospel Choir.
There are no images of the concert but photo opportunities with Mandela, press conference as well as activities by the artists. The concert itself was on the 1st of December 2007. The photographs are mainly organised by photographer, the copyrights vary.
Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics, Thomas Piketty, presented the 2015 Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture at the University of Johannesburg’s Soweto Campus.
Proceedings of the 17th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture delivered by Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoen at the University of Johannesburg on the 23rd of November 2019, under the theme "Constitutionalism as an instrument for transformation".
- Nelson Mandela delivering cakes from Bafana Bafana and the Springboks to the Bonakele Hospice in Kew, Johannesburg, South Africa, August 2008. -Nelson Mandela with Albertina Sisulu meeting a writer of prize winning essay at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg, South Africa, September 2008. -Nelson Mandela meeting one of the children during a Reach for a Dream visit to the Nelson Mandela Foundation, in Johannesburg, December 06. -Family painting project for the Commemoration of the fall of the Berlin Wall at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in August 2009 -Nelson Mandela at 92, with children from Qunu and Mvezo at his Houghton home in Johannesburg.
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.
Day 1 session 3, Social entrepreneurship discussion continued and key notes addressed by Uhuru Kenyatta, Vic Van Rooyen ,Trevor Mulaudzi youth comments and Mothomang Diaho in closing.
Nelson Mandela Foundation team together with Miss Universe, Zozibini Tunzi and reigning Miss SA Shudufhadzo Musida visited the White City Old Age Home. The NMF Chief Executive reflected on Madiba’s words when he said “Your parents & elders sacrificed much so that you should have freedom without suffering what they did”.
The South African National Defense Force and the National Air Force Orchestra celebrate Madiba's 85th birthday. People arriving with present, generals cooks and cakes.
Activities of Madiba Commemoration 2014 in four subsubseries: State Commemoration at Freedom Park, Mandela Legacy Cup, Artists Tribute and a Big Roar for Mandela.
Malala's visit to the Nelson Mandela Foundation and receives a tour of the Archive, temporary and permanent exhibitions including Nelson Mandela's post-presidential office. She took a group photo with the staff of the Foundation outside next to Madiba's statue.
Malala visits the Apartheid Museum and receives a guided tour of the exhibitions. The Apartheid Museum is a museum illustrating apartheid and the 20th-century history of South Africa.
The Nelson Mandela Remembrance Walk which traced Nelson Mandela's passage through Tshwane (Pretoria) to his last resting place. The Walk started at Freedom Park and moved through Kgosi Mampuru Correctional services to Church Square, all the way to Lillian Ngoyi Square, and ended at the Union Buildings.
Walkers and runners. David Makhura, Maya Makanjee, among others, leading the Walk. The route retraced the steps of the motorcade that carried Mandela's body from 1 Military Hospital to the Unions Buildings , where he laid in state for five days after his dead four years ago. The day started with the wreath laying ceremony at the Union Buildings. The photographs are possibly taken with a 'fish-eye' lens.
The Nelson Mandela 5th Annual Lecture with Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary-General and Nobel laureate. The focuse of the Lecture was on the progress of Africa, that it needed to be balanced on three pillars: security, development and human rights.