The 46664 Bangle is the official bracelet engraved with Nelson Mandela's prisoner number, 46664, and a laser image of his hand. 46664 is a symbol for Mr. Mandela's global charity efforts and humanitarian work, including the prevention of HIV AIDS. Every sale of a 46664 Bangle contributes funds to this campaign, creates jobs, and continues the message of social responsibility worldwide. Buy the Bangle, Change a Life.

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Nelson Mandela Foundation Recommends Book As Compelling Read

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

Head of the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s Memory Programme, Verne Harris, spoke recently on the subject “Madiba, Memory and the Work of Justice” at the 18th Alan Paton Lecture.

Harris has also recommended Hugh Lewin’s new book, Stones against the Mirror: Friendship in the Time of the South African Struggle, one of several new autobiographies and biographies about the South African struggle.  

Lewin’s book is described as, “exemplary… offers a sustained reflection on memory and evidence, and confronts the inevitable fictional fashioning which informs any and every work of narrating the past.” 

Source: The Nelson Mandela Foundation

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Zenani Mandela Scholarship Focuses on Road Safety

Saturday, April 16th, 2011

The Zenani Mandela Road Safety Scholarship was launched this week to focus on road safety, in memory of Nelson Mandela’s great-granddaughter, who was tragically killed in a car crash last year.

Launching the Zenani Mandela Road Safety Scholarship, Zoleka Mandela said, “A crash robbed me of my daughter, a beautiful, bright 13-year-old who was full of energy and hope for the future.

“I will never recover from this, nor will my family. Parents and families should not have to be put through tragedies like this. All too often they are. My heart is already broken, but what makes this even worse is that so often road accidents are preventable.

“We must all support the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety – our children’s lives are at stake.”

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Public to Help Identify Nelson Mandela Photos

Friday, April 8th, 2011

The Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory is appealing to the public to assist in finding missing information to accompany many photographs in their collection.

Photo courtesy of the Nelson Mandela Foundation

Over the years, they’ve received many photographs taken of Nelson Mandela and now they need details of those occasions so that they can archive them accurately.

 “We are asking the public to help build this resource which will be richer when we have more information. It is also so that the public can feel they are part of this,” said communications manager, Sello Hatang.

Recognize yourself in any of these photographs? Contact the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory at nmf@nelsonmandela.org and help complete the picture.

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New 46664 Clothing to Raise Funds and Promote Mandela’s Humanitarian Legacy

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

The Nelson Mandela Fundation plans to launch a clothing range in August to raise funds and promote Mandela’s humanitarian legacy. Nelson Mandela Foundation CEO and 46664 board member, Achmat Dangor, said it could no longer depend on philanthropy to fund awareness-raising and projects like Nelson Mandela Day.

“46664 needs reliable and sustainable income streams, something we believe the 46664 apparel can significantly contribute to,” he said.

“There’s resistance to commercialisation of Mandela,” he continued, however, “We will not use Madiba’s image or name in any of our merchandise… we will use his legacy, what he stands for…we do not need to use his face,” Dangor said. The only logos or slogans featured would be the number ’46664′ and the image of an outstretched hand – reminding pepole of the 46664 saying,”It’s In Our Hands”.

Like the 46664 Bangle project (the bracelet engraved with Nelson Mandela’s hand and his prisoner number), when you buy 46664 clothing you are investing in a process that will help spread the legacy of Nelson Mandela by supporting the long-term sustainability of 46664. As Achmat Dangor says, “You will also be empowering young people in communities out there and creating a platform for global change.”

Source: The Nelson Mandela Foundation and the 46664 Campaign.

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Revealed: 2005 Photo of Barack Obama Meeting Nelson Mandela

Sunday, February 27th, 2011

Image courtesy of The Sunday Times

A picture of Nelson Mandela’s only meeting with US President Barack Obama now sits on the South African icon’s desk, alongside a photo of Muhammad Ali.

Published in February 2011 for the first time, the photograph shows Obama, then a little-known junior Senator, having his one and only meeting with Nelson Mandela, in a hotel room in Washington, DC, in May 2005.

Even the Nelson Mandela Foundation admitted they had “no idea” the two men had ever met – until Obama sent the photograph to Mandela as a gift last year, inscribed with the words, “An inspiration to us all”.

Verne Harris, Mandela’s chief archivist, said: “There is no archival record of that meeting that we’ve been able to locate, apart from this photograph,” he said. “The meeting was not part of the schedule, but someone said, ‘Madiba, look, you have to meet Senator Obama. He said, ‘Great, I’m happy to do that.’

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Madiba Is Well – International Concern About Nelson Mandela

Friday, January 28th, 2011

The news of Nelson Mandela being admitted to hospital this week was met with worldwide concern, and none more so than in South Africa, where the apartheid icon continues to unite the country through his legacy of humble leadership and reconciliation.

As media swarmed around Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa, President Jacob Zuma called on journalists to “balance the quest for stories with acting within the bounds of human decency and ensuring the respect for human dignity.”

Surgeon General Vejaynand Ramlakan said in this video interview that Nelson Mandela was “in high spirits. Medically, at present, there is no need to panic.” Ramlakan told reporters, “His amazing positive attitude allows him to cope with the difficulties of old age, with the greatest of grace”.

The 46664 Bangle team in the US wishes Madiba well and tends to agree with Sizwe Mbatha, 28, a bank consultant in South Africa, who said, “Yes, he is a world icon but he is also a human being and he deserves his privacy. We should all just let him rest now.”

See official statement on the Nelson Mandela Foundation web site.

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Nelson Mandela Foundation on Xenophobia

Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

Xenophobia – a word most people had never heard of, let alone knew how to pronounce, until 2008 when South Africa experienced a violent outbreak of xenophobic behavior.

Soon, it became the ugly buzzword used to describe the intolerance of migrant workers and illegal immigrants – the “hatred or fear of foreigners or strangers or of their politics or culture”. Attacks on these foreigners highlighted the underlying social issues causing thousands of people to leave their country in search of a better life in South Africa, as well as the response from struggling communities who see the influx of foreigners as a threat to their own income and job opportunities.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation recently facilitated a series of dialogues in an effort to build social cohesion and understanding between South Africans and foreign nationals. The Foundation has just released a book capturing this two-year-long process, its achievements and challenges.

Read more about key principles such as community ownership, inclusivity, mutual respect and fundamental human rights.

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