Mandela Day News

Christmas came early to the Mandela Education Programme, in a donation from WeBuyCars.

The challenge of dealing with an invisible virus that has brought many businesses to their knees has meant that disadvantaged communities have become more disadvantaged, writes Yase Godlo, Director: Mandela Day & Special Projects for the Nelson Mandela Foundation.

A primary school deep in rural KwaZulu-Natal gets a brand-new Nelson Mandela library project library, thanks to donors.

As we launch Mandela Day 2020 in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic our CE Sello Hatang explains how each one of us can contribute to building a better world, especially for those who need it most.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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