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Kokosi Primary School gets back to learning with new protective gear

The Mandela Education Programme was recently blessed with a donation of 1 000 masks from 1millionsmiles.co.za and Kokosi Primary School in, Fochville, Gauteng, has put them to good use.

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Covid-19 protection for Diepsloot school

Teachers and Grade 7 pupils at a school in Diepsloot, north of Johannesburg, are being protected against Covid-19 with disposable face shields donated through Participate for Good’s Mandela Education Programme.

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Evaton's Mosioa Primary School gets a Mandela library

A Gauteng primary school’s new library, donated through the Nelson Mandela School Library Project, was officially opened on 28 February 2020.

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Limpopo school starts 2020 with a Mandela library

Tiyiselani Primary School, which lies in the far north of South Africa, near the border with Zimbabwe, started the 2020 school year with a brand-new library donated through the Nelson Mandela School Library Project.

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Mpumalanga school starts 2020 with a brand-new Mandela library

Mpumalamga’s Mbongo Primary School started the 2020 school year with a brand-new library, donated through the Nelson Mandela School Library Project.

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Hytec launches its fifth Mandela Day library

Engineering company Hytec launched its fifth Mandela Day library with a brand-new library, filled with exciting books – fiction and non-fiction – at Kaalfontein Primary School in Midrand, Gauteng, on 23 October 2019.

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Mandela Day: towards eradicating homelessness

Earlier this year, when uGogo May Bhengu was told that the Nelson Mandela Foundation, in collaboration with Habitat for Humanity, would be building her a home, she did not believe it.

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Kings Harvest Academy, the future of rural schooling?

KwaZulu-Natal's King's Harvest school has received an online education platform through the Mandela Digital Learning Project.

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Ster-Kinekor gives back to community through 20 OctoVision Mission

Ster-Kinekor has always been involved in a wide range of CSI projects, however, the focus has been on Vision Mission.

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Shaping girls' future with Cell C

On the 12th of July, the Nelson Mandela Foundation hosted the graduation ceremony for its 2019 Cell C Take A Girl Child To Work Day programme as part of its commitment to play a part in intervening in intergenerational poverty and inequality through the Mandela Initiative, Nelson Mandela International Day, dialogue and research as well as its year-long internship programme.

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First Mandela digital learning platform launched on Mandela Day

Mandela Day took off in style at a rural Free State primary school when the Mandela Digital Learning Project’s online learning platform was launched after four years of development and six months of testing.

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Celebrating 10 years of Mandela Day: from doing more, to doing differently

Ekurhuleni – Over the past 10 years, Nelson Mandela International Day has enjoyed global solidarity and support to change the lives of millions of people for the better – continuing the work of Nelson Mandela.