Nelson Mandela’s widow, Graça Machel, and The Elders, a group of respected international leaders working together for peace and human rights, marked the organisation’s 10th birthday on Nelson Mandela International Day by launching a global initiative to continue Mandela’s “long walk to freedom”.

The children at Sakhile Primary School in Heidelberg have books to page through for the first time in 51 years.

The sixth annual Trek4Mandela Kilimanjaro climb in support of vulnerable girls kicks off on Wednesday 12 July 2017.

The past week’s devastating fires in the Knysna area and destructive Cape Town storm have compounded the dire need already crippling many disadvantaged South African communities. This brings substance to the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s new “Action against poverty” theme for Nelson Mandela International Day (Mandela Day).

Mandela bangle ambassador Hlubi Mboya-Arnold, an avid mountain biker, called in many favours to create a special mini-library reading corner for the Diepsloot Mountain Bike Academy.

Marikana Primary has received a Mandela Day library.

Unless South Africans tackle poverty, Nelson Mandela’s dream of a society in which all are equal is “just a dream”, said Nelson Mandela Foundation Chief Executive Sello Hatang. He was speaking at the public launch of a new strategic direction for Nelson Mandela International Day (Mandela Day), at an event at Johannesburg’s Constitution Hill on 10 May.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation invites you to cover the launch of Mandela Day 2017.

Mandela Day began in South Africa, and has grown to make a significant difference in the lives of those who have less, says the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s Mandela Day manager, Yase Godlo.

Mandela Day has made a strategic shift towards better ensuring that its focus on making every day a Mandela Day has increased sustainability, reach and impact.

A team of 167 volunteers from 24 Norton Rose Fulbright offices recently descended on Johannesburg for the law firm’s Nelson Mandela Foundation Challenge 67 global charitable initiative.