Mandela Day News
"We climb Mount Kilimanjaro so that others do not have to"
On Saturday, the 13th of July, The Nelson Mandela Foundation in partnership with the Imbumba Foundation will be sending off the 2019 Trek4Mandela Expedition team at O. R. Tambo International Airport to wish them well on their climb.
Mandela Day libraries ambassador Hlubi Mboya Arnold now non-executive director, too
It is with great pleasure that we at Participate for Good welcome actress and philanthropist Hlubi Mboya Arnold as non-executive director of Participate for Good’s Mandela Education Programme.
Mandela Day: The Next Chapter
The Nelson Mandela Foundation launched a new strategy for International Nelson Mandela Day, titled Mandela Day: The Next Chapter, at the Nelson Mandela Foundation. The new strategy charts a new path for the ten-year-old initiative significantly changing the manner in which it will impact on people’s lives going forward.
Invitation to cover: Mandela Day: The Next Chapter
The Nelson Mandela Foundation is launching a new strategy for Nelson Mandela International Day strategy at a stakeholder engagement session to take place in Johannesburg on 15 May.
Limpopo’s Nelsonskop Primary School gets a “Mandela library”
When the children of Nelsonskop Primary school in Limpopo, start the second term on 2 April they will have a brand-new library to explore.
A “Mandela library” for Limpopo’s Motlhasedi Primary School
The children at Limpopo’s Motlhasedi Primary School in Bossche Deisch, north of Lephalale on the Botswana border, are enjoying a new library thanks to a donation made via the Nelson Mandela School Library Project.
Hytec sponsors fifth container library for Mandela Day libraries project
The children of Limpopo’s Papong Primary School have been enjoying a brand-new, fully stocked library since 25 July 2018, donated by the Long Walk to Freedom Mandela Day Libraries Project and mining supply company Hytec Group.
Mandela Day 2018: Thank you
The Nelson Mandela Foundation thanks the 2018 Mandela Day stakeholders for their valuable contribution to the success of this year's Mandela Day.
Riding for hope, and for Mandela’s legacy
Drums sounded and children cheered and waved as a group of cyclists set off from Soweto early on 28 August 2018 on the first leg of the inaugural Nelson Mandela Legacy Ride4Hope.
Crown Mines learners receive new library in celebration of Mandela centenary
Celebrities and special guests celebrated the centenary of Nelson Mandela’s birth by joining learners and staff at Crown Mines Primary School in Johannesburg on 18 July 2018 as the school received a restocked and refurbished school library from the Mandela Library Project.
KwaZulu-Natal school gets Mandela Library
More than 2 300 books have lined the library shelves at Asithuthuke Combined School in Balgowan, KwaZulu-Natal, since the school received a Mandela Library on 7 June 2018.
T-shirts for Mandela
Official T-shirts commemorating the centenary of Nelson Mandela’s 1918 birth are to be sold as part of a broader campaign supporting the Nelson Mandela Foundation centenary initiatives, says marketer Afrikan Soul Headquarters Productions.