Mandela Day events
July 14, 2009 – The list below records activities that were implemented by a range of organisations or companies across South Africa on Mandela Day and the days thereafter.
We want to hear about your Mandela Day activities, so please send your stories and photos to jade@mandeladay.com
Thank you – and all the organisations below – for making an imprint on local communities.
90.6 FM Stereo
90.6 FM Stereo has arranged for eight choirs to perform for the elderly on Mandela Day, the choirs will also give out blankets. The event is to be held at the Mphatlalatsane Theatre in the Vaal Triangle.
Phankha Sakoane 086 182 7906 or 076 437 4101
Agape Seeds
The Agape Seeds projects donate fruit and vegetable seeds to needy individuals through a network of churches to provide sustainable source of food for underprivileged communities.
Sydney Braam 082 330 1473
ANC parliamentary constituency office in Kempton Park
ANC Members of Parliament and community members will be making donations of food parcels, clothes and books on Mandela Day.
Jeff Mohlele: 072 793 5489
ANC Selope Thema
ANC cadres, councillors, MPs, MPLs and the people of Kwa-Thema and Springs will be painting, cleaning and refurbishing schools, clinics and hospitals, as well as providing clothes and other basics to children in need.
Vusi Hlatshwayo 073 752 0624
ANC MP, MPL, councillors and ANC Youth League REC members
Will be conducting a clean-up campaign at Nhlazatshe taxi rank and surroundings and they will then visit and clean up at the Gugulethu Old Age home.
Sibusiso 073 839 2195 or Phumzile 078 074 4202
AQrate KZN
AQrate KZN will be running a series of business skills workshops and offering discounts on black economic empowerment verification to businesses with more than 50% black shareholding.
Brigette Brun (031) 563 7788
Boitekong Youth Group
Will spend 67 minutes cleaning the Boitekong Township in Rustenburg.
Kgomotso Kumbe 0727233445
Buhlomahlo
Volunteers at Buhlomahlo Children’s Home in Thembisa will be doing a door-to-door collection for clothing for underprivileged children between the ages of four and ten.
Percy 078 630 4696
Child Welfare
Child Welfare South Africa, the KwaZulu-Natal Cricket Union, eThekwini Municipality and the University of KwaZulu-Natal will be holding a dinner at the Sahara Stadium Kingsmead, where a 67-minute pledge session will take place. Guests will use this time to dedicate 67 minutes to a community service programme of their choice.
Dasarath Chetty: (031) 260 8007
City of Matlosana
The day’s event will start with participants doing community work at 15 different registered Disability Centres for 67 minutes. After this, all teams will converge at Folang Disability Centre in Kanana, Orkney for the main celebration.
The Executive Mayor will use the platform to address the participants as well as give orphans gifts and hand a R1- million cheque to persons with disabilities.
Vienne Lebeko (018) 487 8329 or 072 019 3471
City of Neighbours
City of Neighbours will screen a Mandela video for young people who are part of the peace- building organisation, which became visible immediately after the xenophobic violence in South Africa last year.
Chichi Richard 083 966 0627
Congress of South African Trade Unions
COSATU will be celebrating Mandela Day across the country with a series of activities from donating food to disadvantaged communities, planting tree or helping to clean homes in provinces across South Africa.
Patrick Craven (011) 339 4911/24
Delta Park vegetable tower
The Delta Park Vegetable Garden Club is encouraging people to grow vegetables by spending 67 minutes establishing, planning and starting to grow vegetables. When the vegetables or seedlings are fully grown they are then distributed to clinics, schools and soup kitchens in Johannesburg.
Pam Fletcher (011) 787 6430
Department of Arts and Culture
The department will hold an entertainment concert in Mary Fitzgerald Square in Newtown, Johannesburg, on July 18. There will be a variety of cultural performances, plus speeches by members of government.
Buz Publicity (011) 482 3489
Department of Correctional Services
Staff members will be delivering food and gifts to learners of Khwezi Farm School on July 20.
Mbele Na (016) 370 2238
Department of Public Enterprises
Staff members will be visiting the Kingdom of Life shelter in Attridgeville. Staff members will be renovating the centre which currently accommodates 45 children from underprivileged families. Staff will also be donating food, books and blankets.
Marcus Motlhatlhedi (012) 431 1086
Department of Water and Environmental Affairs
The Minister will lead the staff of the Department of Water and Environmental affairs in a series of activities around the country in celebration of Mandela Day. The events all focus on the environment and range from tree planting, clean-up campaigns and recycling initiatives to open days at the Cape Town Marine Research Aquarium, introducing underprivileged children to Africa’s big five in the Kruger National Park and hosting the elderly at the Pretoria National Botanical Gardens.
Judith van der Merwe (012) 310 3309
Development Bank of Southern Africa
The Development Bank of Southern Africa’s staff members will be participating in community projects of their choosing. They are also donating unused books which will be distributed to underprivileged schools.
Rozzane Motshwane rozzanem@dbsa.org
Ehlanzeni Ubuntu baBantu Mandela Day Reach-Out Programme
Municipality staff will visit disadvantaged communities, providing food parcels and blankets.
David Gabonantho 073 875 8061
Food Bank South Africa
FoodBank South Africa will launch the 67 Minutes to end hunger in South Africa campaign as part of the Mandela Day celebrations on July 17. The campaign will continue until 21 July 2009. Visit www.67minutes.org on Mandela Day to increase awareness of hunger in South Africa.
Claire Winson (021) 462 0416
Former political prisoners
Former political prisoners will be visiting the Syferfontein shack community near Pacaltsdorp, in George, and providing community members with breakfast. This will be followed by a party for the children of St Mary’s Children’s Home in Rosemore and a lecture on Mr Mandela lecture at the Conville Civic Centre in George.
Monica Nokhele: (044) 874 3953 or 073 723 3908
Friends of the Inner City
Johannesburg inner city residents will spend 67 minutes cleaning a building on the corner of Twist and Wolmarans street as part of a ‘Build Your Neighbourhood Campaign’. Residents will also donate building material and tools to be used in the reviving of Lorna Court, which burnt down a couple of ago leaving hundreds of residents homeless and destitute.
Moses Ka Moyo on 076 681 0577
Free State Provincial Government activities
The Free State Provincial Government has put together an extensive series of events in celebration of Mandela Day. These range from helping with DIY, gardening and cleaning to donating bicycles to learners.
Lerato Jabane (051) 405 5316
Gauteng Provincial Government
The Gauteng government will be hosting a series of events around Johannesburg, including gardening, helping at soup kitchens, cooking for the elderly and donating toys and books to underprivileged children.
Israel Mogale (011) 355 6281
Government Communication and Information System
The GCIS, Botshabelo Thusong Service Centre and Ward 32 committee will be holding an event on Mandela Day.
Google South Africa
Google South Africa spent their 67 minutes at the United Cerebral Palsy Association in Johannesburg entertaining the residents and learning about the needs of people with cerebral palsy.
Sello Msimanga 079 728 8654
Great Park Synagogue
The Chief Rabbi and Ma’Afrika Tikkun are hosting a 67 minute drive to collect blankets, clothes and non-perishable food at the Great Park Synagogue on Sunday July 19.
(011) 485 4865
Ikhaya Likababa
A group of international volunteers will be laying a floor for the iKhaya Likababa, a home for orphans and vulnerable children, in Felixton, South Africa.
Sean 082 577 7340
iLembe District Municipality
The District of iLembe is home to many senior citizens but unfortunately most of our senior citizens live below the breadline so civil servants will be donating blankets, walking sticks and seed packs for subsistence farming. The municipality will also be holding a medical check-ups as well as a soup kitchen. The municipality will also be providing assistance to people with disabilities and the vulnerable children.
Ernest Shozi (032) 437 9504/14
Imizamo Yethu Community
Imizamo Yethu community will be teaming up to clean up the Hout Bay area in Cape Town on July 18, there
Thozama Sphondo 082 747 3142 or Bronwen Lankers-Byrne (021) 790 7226 or 082 318 3308
The Independent Development Trust (IDT)
The IDT has volunteered to build a house in a week in celebration of Mandela Day. Ten IDT staff members will travel to Mbuba village in KwaZulu-Natal, where they will build a house for an orphaned family of three currently living in a dilapidated mud rondavel.
Nonhlanhla Khumalo 072 844 0729
Independent Democrats
Independent Democrat leader Patricia de Lille will be visiting Cape Town’s Nazareth House, which cares for vulnerable elderly people, adults and children who have been abandoned, abused or orphaned, while other members of the ID will spend time entertaining orphans and the elderly.
Steven Otter 084 233 381
Individual activities
Gabriel Dichabe plans to clean up the garden of an elderly man living in Pimville.
Gabriel Dichabe: Dichabeg@yahoo.com
Sipho Shongwe plans to do community service at a local hospital in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga.
Sipho Shongwe 082 453 9172
Vicky Hewitt-Coleman will be starting a green club to encourage children to care for their environment by growing vegetables for use by the community of Wilderness Heights.
Vicky Hewitt-Coleman property@noharchitects.co.za
Thandi Bushula will be helping street children in Houghton, Johannesburg.
Thandi Bushula 082 976 9375
Inter-Active Technologies Ikageng Ministry
Inter-Active Technologies have chosen the Ikageng Ministry as part of their community service for Mandela Day and are hosting 67 orphan children from Ikageng on Monday July 20 and Wednesday July 22 in honour of Mandela Day. They will attend the Galleria Learning Centre in Florida, Roodepoort for the Illuminate Course.
Katherine Fouche (011) 991 4988
Iziko Museums of Cape Town
Iziko Museums will host the “2010 Soccer Indaba”, its second such event. Thereafter, it has planned a youth clean-up campaign in Khayelitsha.
Wandile Kasibe (021) 481 3804
Johannesburg Emergency Management Services, Office of the MEC for Public Safety and the City of Johannesburg’s Community Development Department
Together, these organizations will assist homeless people in the Johannesburg inner city by providing them with relevant services, assistance and care on Mandela Day.
Percy Morokane (011) 758 9540
The Johannesburg Festival Orchestra
The Johannesburg Festival Orchestra with Richard Cock will be going into Alexandra to give a children’s concert for Mr Mandela’s birthday. The concert will take place at AlexSan Kopano Community Centre with 1200 children.
Paul Rodgers 082 444 2697
KwaZulu-Natal Environmental Affairs and Rural Development
The Department of Environmental Affairs and Rural Development spent Mandela Day planting trees and establishing a vegetable garden at the Ghandi Hospital.
Kulani Boxing Promotions
Kulani Boxing Promotions will host a professional boxing tournament at the Qunu Civic Hall. Boxers from Umtata will be meet East London boxers in the ring.
Mxolisi Kamani 072 593 1029
Librarian Association of South Africa
The Liberian communities in Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town will celebrate Mandela Day by cleaning up the environment and areas surrounding the libraries.
Bolley Benson laisadurban@yahoo.com
Magical Moments
Magical Moments will be honouring Mandela Day by assisting Nombuyiselo, a beautiful and bright 13 year girl from Diepsloot prepare her proposal for assistance with her education.
Ilana 083 324 0320
Mandela Organisation Activity
The Mandela Organisations will be active on Mandela Day in their respective areas of work. The Nelson Mandela Foundation, through its Centre of Memory and Dialogue will convene as part of its ongoing series, a community conversation in Khayelitsha to address issues of xenophobia.
Other Nelson Mandela Foundation staff will spend at least 67 minutes of their time on various community-based projects.
The Nelson Mandela Institute for Education and Rural Development, with the University of Fort Hare, will organise volunteers to renovate a local high school in Alice and clean up the town.
The Mandela Rhodes Foundation will be part of a series of ubuntu workshops in Cape Town that aim to explore issues of diversity and the spirit of ubuntu in the workplace.
The Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund will honour and celebrate its Founder’s example and legacy through continuous support of programmes that affect the lives of children. The Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund currently supports 74 programmes across the country.
Nelson Mandela Foundation (011) 728 1000
Matete Matches Secure Care Centre
Matete Matches Secure Care Centre, a state-run institution that cares for and protects detained juveniles awaiting trial, will partner with Ward 09 of Moqhaka Municipality in Kroonstad to celebrate Mandela Day. The two organisations will donate warm clothes, shoes and other garments to the needy and vulnerable members of the community on July 17.
Harry Diamond (056) 212 3445/6
Merafong Library
Merafong Library has asked members of the community to donate information resources to the library. These will be donated to communities that do not currently have access to library resources.
Koekie Meyer: 083 5078032
Mindset Network
Non-profit organisation Mindset Network will be donating a digital library system to 67 underprivileged schools around South Africa as part of its Mandela Day contribution. The digital library provides educational content for the physical sciences, mathematics, English, mathematical literacy, information technology and other critical subjects, and consists of more than 280 hours of video lessons and 96 interactive multimedia lessons, with support softcopy worksheets.
Goodman Chauke 086 100 6463
Miss Junior SA
Miss Junior SA will visit Westford Thando Community crèche spending time with the children and assisting where she can.
Gillian Elson 082 551 1375
Moyo
Moyo restaurants will be taking party packs, with hats, noise blowers and the famous Moyo crunchies, face painters and drummers to the Umthombo Street Children in Durban and the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital in Johannesburg. The restaurants will also be donating 20% of proceeds from the à la carte “Madiba Menu” to selected charities.
Bianca Erasmus: (031) 332 0606
Mother Teresa Missionary – Klipgat
On Saturday July 18, members of the Akasia community will visit the orphans, disabled children and HIV-positive children living at the home and will be providing them with clothing and groceries.
Sister Hendriette (012) 707 9323
National Heritage Museum
Individuals may submit their plans for Mandela Day, and the NHC will visit the best applicant and document their community service.
(012) 348 1663/8233
Nazareth Home
A group of women will be hosting a lunch and party for underprivileged children from the Nazareth home in Cape Town.
Adele Brabec (021) 424 6062
Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund
Staff members from the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund, the National Development Agency and Effeng Bacha will be volunteering at the Friends for Life in Alexander. They will provide assistance to members of this home based care project.
Oupa Ngwenya OupaN@nmcf.co.za
Nelson Mandela Square
Nelson Mandela Square will host a party for underprivileged children, on the square, on July 18.
Mashudu Muthathi (011) 217 6045
Net Dynamix
The IT company Net Dynamix is offering the first 67 non-profit organisations that contact them through the relevant channels a professional and quality designed website at no cost to those organisations. The offer also includes free domain name registration as well as six months’ free web and email hosting and thereafter hosting at cost price.
Chris Grant 072 975 6798 or NGOs to contact Amy Smith on asmith@netdynamix.co.za or 67@netdynamix.co.za or on 082 588 1353
Phumlani Dube and Gift of Givers
Phumlani Dube and Gift of Givers will hand out food hampers and community support packages to 2000 people in Umlozi, Durban.
www.umlazi.co.za or www.giftofthegivers.org
Rekopane Inclusive Development Centre
Rekopane Boarding Development Centre is a boarding centre for children below the age of ten with multiple-disabilities. They will be painting their premises on Mandela Day and are inviting people to volunteer and help out.
Tumi Lechaba (011) 022 3572
Robben Island Museum
The Robben Island Museum will be celebrating the birthday of Mr Mandela in partnership with the Cape Town Routes Unlimited, Anglican Church and Aquila Game Reserve. The celebration will be in line with the wish of the Nelson Mandela Foundation that we commit to a 67-minute social responsibility project in celebration and commemoration of his 67 years of uninterrupted involvement in the struggle for liberation. The Anglican Church and Restitution Foundation will be working on the Pilgrimage Programme, Cape Town Routes Unlimited will be working on a memorandum of understanding to promote community tourism, and Greenman Play will entertain the participants after the day’s activities.
Winston Tsematse: (021) 409 5100
Rhoedean School
Roedean Senior School will be celebrating Mandela Day by brainstorming 67 ways to make an imprint on local communities while learners in grades one and three have collected blankets and food and will distribute these to two organisations which care for orphans and vulnerable children.
Charlotte Hulley (011) 647 3200
SABC 1, Indalo Yethu and the Department of Water and Environmental Affairs
SABC1, Indalo Yethu and the Department of Water and Environmental Affairs will be planting trees and installing recycling bins at Mquma Local Municipality in the Eastern Cape and in Mamelodi, Tshwane. The final aim is to plant 46 664 trees nationally, a goal they hope to reach by July 18, 2010.
Vukile Madlala (011) 714 5651
Service Delivery Outreach Party, Ivory Park
Beauty Contained will be supplying 67 women to provide pampering treatments and massages to the elderly at the Ivory Park Service Delivery Outreach Party on Mandela Day.
Trudy Mather 076 323 0109
Mr Sexwale, trustee of the Nelson Mandela Foundation and chairperson of its Investment and Endowment Committee
Mr Sexwale will be talking on 702 and Cape Talk on Saturday morning to call on business to make their Mandela Day pledges. The live broadcast will take place from 7am to 10am.
Shoprite
Shoprite will be hosting four Mandela Day birthday parties for senior citizens in Port Elizabeth, George, Umtata and East London.
Esmerelda Essex (041) 392 2700
The Sisanda FunDaytion
The Sisanda Fundaytion will be taking 100 HIV-positive children from disadvantaged backgrounds to Ratanga Junction for a full day of fun and adventure.
Nicky Seymour 084 5715 030
The Soweto Heritage Trust
The Soweto Heritage Trust proposes to commemorate Madiba’s birthday by having all the visitors to Mandela House on Saturday write messages in a book which they would then like to present to the Foundation.
Sarah Haines (011) 658 0196
South African Embassy: Japan
Staff at the South African embassy in Tokyo, Japan spent time at the Swan Bakery teaching the disabled staff members how to prepare traditional South African dishes like milk tart and babotie.
South African Federation for Mental Health
The SAFMH has alerted all 17 mental health organisations across the country as well as 68 member organisations about the campaign.
Lindiwe Shayi (011) 781 1852
South African National Blood Service
The blood service will be blood donation drive in Mr Mandela’s honour. Please see its website for donation points on the day.
Gail Nothard (011) 761 9000
South African Qualifications Authority
SAQA aims to promote the culture of reading among children by donating children’s books to two homes for HIV/AIDS orphans. The staff will spend at least 67 minutes reading to the children.
Emlyn Jordaan (012) 431 5037
The Springs Parliamentary Constituency Office
MPs, MPLs, councillors and prominent figures in the community will paint the Phomolong Hospice Care Centre.
Lindi Lasindwa (011) 812 1833
Tara Psychiatric Hospital
A small NGO will be painting murals at the government hospital on 26 July.
Nicole Heiman 084 284 6452
TIPP Focus Group
TIPP Focus Group staff members will be doing voluntary work for a children’s home in Alexandra and Soweto.
Nosipho Twala 087 754 7617/18
Unisa
Unisa will be holding an exhibition in commemoration of Mr Mandela’s birthday and Mandela Day.
Boniswa Nyati or Verne Harris (011) 728 1000
Unisa Women’s Forum
The Executive Committee of the Unisa Women’s Forum will launch the “Living the Madiba Legacy – Women in Academia share their experiences” at the Principal’s Annual Empowerment Dinner on August 7, 2009. The project will use vignettes from women in academia to reflect upon and provide social commentary and critique about how their struggles and achievements resonate with those of Mr Mandela.
Rachel C. Prinsloo (012) 429 3923
WS Atkins International Ltd (SA)
WS Atkins International staff members will spend some time helping with daily chores at Abangani Enkosini Children’s Haven in Alexandra on Saturday 18 July.
Alice M (011) 445 2550