Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has visited former president Nelson Mandela in the Mediclinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria.
Tyson cane spirit, Boss blended whisky, Zero pineapple flavoured gin — all, according to a Malawian liquor company, are Madiba’s favourite tipple.
The M&G Centre for Investigative Journalism welcomes the concessions ANC MPs made last Friday (June 24) regarding the Protection of Information Bill.
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/ 3 February 2011
Nearly three million lives have been saved by HIV/Aids treatment, according to a new book commissioned by the United Nations.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation has not been silenced on the 92-year-old former president’s health condition, its CEO Achmat Dangor said on Thursday.
Questions hang over price and proceeds of signed artwork.
Mpho Pule was a grandmother in her fifties when she was told that Nelson Mandela was her father. She spent the next 12 years trying to meet him.
A painting depicting Nelson Mandela as a corpse by a Johannesburg-based artist has caused an upset. His 92nd birthday is on July 18.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation on Wednesday began a 67-day countdown to Nelson Mandela Day on July 18.
ANC stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has denied giving an interview to Nadira Naipaul, where she was quoted as slamming Nelson Mandela.
A row has broken out between the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the local event organisers who brought <i>Top Gear</i> to South Africa last month.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation broke its silence over its handling of former president Nelson Mandela’s hospitalisation on Monday.
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/ 9 February 2009
The Nelson Mandela Foundation on Monday dismissed rumours that former president Nelson Mandela was ill.
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/ 16 December 2008
Nelson Mandela collected yet another laurel on Monday, this time from an elite forum of fellow former world leaders.
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/ 1 December 2008
Anti-apartheid activist, businessman and Mandela family physician Nthato Motlana has died at his Johannesburg home after a long battle with cancer.
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/ 1 December 2008
Anti-apartheid activist, businessman and Mandela family physician Nthato Motlana has died after a long battle with cancer, it was reported on Monday.
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/ 8 September 2008
The Nelson Mandela Foundation on Monday appealed to people to stop exploiting Madiba’s name.
The woman with the microphone and brightly coloured knit tam-o’-shanter is speaking in Nelson Mandela’s name as she presses villagers to be honest about HIV/Aids.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation announced on Wednesday that it would launch a book in tribute to Madiba in his 90th year.
World famous scientist Stephen Hawking met former president Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg on Thursday. Said Hawking: ”I admire how you managed to find a peaceful solution to a situation that seemed doomed to disaster. It was one of the great achievements of the 20th century.”
Former president Nelson Mandela on Tuesday warned against ”destructive divisiveness” in the country. ”Remember the horror from which we come.” Mandela was speaking shortly after receiving the Freedom of the City from Tshwane mayor Gwen Ramokgopa at a private ceremony at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg.
Madiba’s 90th birthday celebrations have already begun and will continue throughout the year, the Nelson Mandela Foundation said on Wednesday. Mandela was joined by his wife and daughters in Johannesburg to hear what events have been planned around his 90th birthday, which falls on July 18.
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/ 30 October 2007
Conjoined twin Mpho Mathibela was glad to meet former president Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg on Tuesday. Mpho is the surviving twin of the famous Mathibela conjoined twins, Mpho and Mphonyana. They hit headlines when they were born joined at the head at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital on December 7 1986.
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/ 29 October 2007
Former president Nelson Mandela was at the Ellis Park stadium on Monday to greet the South African artists who had agreed to perform in his fifth 46664 concert aimed at fighting HIV/Aids. Johnny Clegg, Arno Carstens, Loyiso and the Soweto Gospel Choir are just some of the local stars scheduled to appear at the 46664 concert later this year.
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/ 29 October 2007
Former president Nelson Mandela was at the Ellis Park stadium on Monday to greet the South African artists who had agreed to perform in his fifth 46664 concert aimed at fighting HIV/Aids. Johnny Clegg, Arno Carstens, Loyiso, the Parlotones, Prime Circle and the Soweto Gospel Choir are just some of the local stars scheduled to appear at the 46664 concert later this year.
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/ 27 October 2007
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Soweto residents left their houses to cheer on the Springbok rugby team on its victory parade through the Johannesburg township on Saturday morning. A handful of cheering residents, some still in their night-gowns, braved the rain to greet the Rugby World Cup winners as they passed the Maponya Mall in an open-top bus.
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/ 16 October 2007
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Former president Nelson Mandela will give the Rugby World Cup final in France a miss on Saturday, his spokesperson Zelda la Grange said. ”Because of his age, it is very difficult for Madiba to undertake long trips,” she told the South African Press Association on Tuesday.
An HIV/Aids treatment programme is on track in Lusikisiki, contrary to media reports that it was bungled, the Eastern Cape health department said on Tuesday. The department took over the programme initiated by the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the NGO Médecins sans Frontiêres in October last year.
Climate change is already happening in South Africa, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday during a visit to a biodiversity centre in Cape Town. ”You can see that climate change is already a reality here,” said Merkel, as she visited Biota Africa, a centre where German and South African scientists conduct research on African climate change.
Johannesburg will stage a 46664 HIV/Aids awareness concert on World Aids Day for the first time, former president Nelson Mandela announced on Monday. Mandela said the concert, which will take place on December 1 at Ellis Park stadium, will feature international and local artists.
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/ 21 September 2007
Former South African president Nelson Mandela is alive and well after comments on Iraq by United States President George Bush appear to have been misunderstood, the Nelson Mandela Foundation said on Friday. On Thursday Bush was quoted as saying: ”I heard somebody say, ‘Now where’s Mandela?’ Well, Mandela is dead. Because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas.”
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/ 6 September 2007
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Former South African president Nelson Mandela met the Springboks in Paris on Thursday, his office announced. ”Mr Mandela wished the Springboks well after receiving a Springbok jersey from the team,” said Mandela’s spokesperson, Zelda la Grange, in a statement.