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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.

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"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.

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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.

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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. 

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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.