Nelson Mandela Museum

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2013 Events Calender

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EVENTS CALENDER 2013

13th Anniversary Tournament

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Nelson Mandela once said “sport has the power to change the world, to inspire, to unite people in a way that little else can”.

Nelson Mandela Museum in collaboration with the Eastern Cape Department of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture has converged youth within the rural community of Qunu to celebrate a sterling contribution made by Rholihlahla Nelson Mandela in his quest for sport development and equality.

The vision behind the tournament is to unite rural youth and community of Qunu through sport. The tournament further seeks to encourage youth to participate in sporting activities projected to nurture their talent, and to live a healthy life.

The geographic location of our institution (Nelson Mandela Museum) gives us a chore to create opportunities, nurture and to plough back to the community we serve as Nelson Mandela would have done. The partnership we have with the department of sport, recreation, arts and culture (DSRAC), and German Bank of Lower Saxony has resulted to a well constructed Tennis court, Basket ball, wheel chair basket ball, Netball and a Hand ball turf for the benefit of rural community.

We are further proud with the role played by DSRAC in its commitment of making sporting equipment accessible to rural community. The department of sport, recreation, arts and culture has donated sporting equipment for the youth and community of this area to enhance their skills.

However, we are saddened by tata uNelson Mandela’s health status and we would have loved to see him well to witness an initiative he started 13 years ago that benefit youth. As we follow in his footprints, we are inspired by his values and love for sport development our thoughts are with him.

The tournament will see 16 teams battling out at the Nelson Mandela Museum soccer field in Qunu.

Venue : Nelson Mandela Museum Youth and Heritage Centre, Qunu

Time : 9h00

Date : 06 April 2013

For more details contact Ms. N.Tetani Senior Manager Marketing and Communication

Cell: 082 483 4643 Fax: 047 538 0218

Email:mandelamuseum2@intekom.co.za

Heritage Month Celebrations

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September events calendar

Nelson Mandela Museum Soldiers-on in Honour of Nelson Mandela Month

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The Nelson Mandela Museum has once again honoured Mr. Nelson Mandela’s birthday by engaging in activities that will make a difference in communities, destitute families and most of all revive the ‘Past for a better tomorrow’.

For the previous years the Nelson Mandela Museum has positively responded by making a difference to the community of the Eastern Cape and further restored visible sites relating to Nelson Mandela. The 94th year birthday of Nelson Mandela has kick-started with a number of activities aimed at continuing to where Madiba left off?

The International Mandela Day mainly portrayed as a day where businesses and the have’s need to make a contribution to the have-not, has seen the museum engaging directly and indirectly with various NGO’S, government departments, businesses, churches and institutions of higher learning in the social, educational upliftments of our communities.

As an institution representing a man of many talents; an Academic and an archivist in his own capacity, the Nelson Mandela Museum in collaboration with the Nelson Mandela Foundation is hosting scholars and heritage practitioners through a Colloquium program looking at the Legacies and the state of the archive in honour of Nelson Mandela. The Nelson Mandela Museum further views the content of a book written by Madiba at the time when in Robben Island and various documents and motion as part of the archives. It is through this notion the institutions embarked on fact finding mission about the current state of South Africa’s archives in relation to the forms of struggle waged by South Africans. The event is embraced by Minister Tokyo Sexwale who is the chairperson of the Nelson Mandela Foundation and Revered Frank Chikane. This, colloquium will also feed to the international conference on’ archives deepening democracy’ planned for September 2012 and to be held in East London.

The community of the King Sabatha Dalindyebo Municipality through Liberty in partnership with SpringAge will be hosting springbreak think tanks creating innovative ideas and projects with youth leaders within KSD and O.R.Tambo District Municipality in the footprints of Nelson Mandela. Liberty and SpringAge will contribute its 67 minutes Big Walk titled ‘stepping out for education’. The financial broker will also assist community members through financial literacy workshops for the benefit of the community of KSD.

As part of its Month long program, the Nelson Mandela Museum in partnership with the Mbizana Local Municipality, Ludeke Methodist Mission Church will revive the historical importance of Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela Mandela footprint at Mbizana. The initiative will see the restoration of the site where Nelson Mandela and Winnie Mandela got married. The two stalwarts got married in 1958 after Nelson Mandela divorced Mrs Evelyn Mandela in 1957. The event will also see the Museum, Mbizana Local Municipality and the business community of Mbizana making a difference in the lives of two destitute families and further revamp one of the schools at Ludeke rural village. The event will take place on the 19th and 20th of July at Ludeke and Nkatolo village. As part of its programs the Nelson Mandela Museum sponsored a bus to the Mvezo Traditional Council for the delivery of blankets to the elderly people of the Eastern Cape. The Winter Warmth Outreach Project is a project aimed at donating 2000 blankets to the elderly people of the Eastern Cape. The program has target rural areas of Mthatha, Lady Frere, Cofimvaba, Engcobo to mention a few. As an institution we felt it a necessity to support the initiative as our Patron always endorses a respect of the elderly.

The Nelson Mandela Museum further views the Nelson Mandela month as a month aimed at honouring the unsung heroes of the struggle in relation to Madiba’s statement “i was not alone”. It is in his words that the Nelson Mandela museum has engaged with the Family of the late Chief Zwelebango “Msebenzi” Bhalizulu an ANC stalwart and an UMkhoto Wesizwe member and the family of Comrade Nkathazo who also spent 7 years in Robben Island. As a gesture to the contribution made by the late stalwarts, the institution honoured the two families by donating Tombstones to the two families.

As a youth and an Artist by birth (Nelson Mandela), the Nelson Mandela Museum mentored artists from the Eastern Cape through an intensive 8 week Arts Incubator program at the Nelson Mandela Museum Youth and Heritage Centre. The program was launched on the 13th of July 2012 in honour of Nelson Mandela art of war that brought us freedom of speech, peace and democracy.

Knowledge sharing and heritage preservation is a form of the struggle Madiba waged especially through scribing and dialogue. As part of knowledge sharing the Nelson Mandela Museum in partnership with Vodacom, Google, Daily Dispatch and Uluvo lwethu Rural Development Agency capacitated unemployed grade 12 learners within the rural communities of Qunu in the field of Computer, Technology and Research. The initiative will see the formal launch of Qunu Online that will keep the world updated about current affairs of Qunu inter-alia Nelson Mandela’s footprints.

For more information contact Nokuzola Tetani on 0824834643 emails: nokuzola@nelsonmandelamuseum.org.za/mandelamuseum2@intekom.co.za/nokuzola3@gmail.com

COLLOQUIUM: LEGACIES AND THE STATE OF THE ARCHIVES

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Practitioners in the heritage sector are paying attention to the worrying state of historic legacies and how they are preserved for the country and the continent of Africa. Professionals in the sector believe that there is a growing urgency on all the affected public and private role-players to craft a national plan for the safeguarding of historic evidence that is potential archive material.

The Mandela month provides a moment for the role-players to address the subject and also reflect on the desired archival strategy of the historic material of Nelson Mandela.

A colloquium focussing on the “Legacies and the state of the archives” will be held at the Nelson Mandela Museum, Mthatha in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa from 17 – 18 July 2012. A detailed programme is available on www.nhc.org.za

Speakers at the colloquium include Reverend Frank Chikane, Minister Tokyo Sexwale, Professor Ciraj Rassool, Professor Gary Minkley, Dr Helena Pohlandt-McCormick, Professor Luli Callinicos, Dr Xolela Mangcu, Dr Phindezwa Mnyaka, Deputy Minister A. Dlodlo, Reverend B. Finca and Adv. Sonwabile Mancotywa.

The Colloquium is a preparatory session for the International Conference on Archives that will be hosted by the National Heritage Council from 17 – 19 September 2012 at the ICC in East London, Eastern Cape Province.

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Issued by: The National Heritage Council – www.nhc.org.za on behalf of all the partners, Nelson Mandela Museum and the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

Contact: Danny Goulkan (Marketing & Communications Manager – NHC)

012 348 1663/ 072 952 2260/ danny@nhc.org.za

Ms Nokuzola Tetani (Marketing Manager – Nelson Mandela Museum)

082 483 4643

Nelson Mandela Museum Soldiers-on in Honour of Nelson Mandela Month

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For more information contact Nokuzola Tetani on 0824834643 emails: nokuzola@nelsonmandelamuseum.org.za/mandelamuseum2@intekom.co.za/nokuzola3@gmail.com

Nelson Mandela Museum pays tribute to unsung struggle stalwarts.

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“Rembembering our heroes”

The late Chris Hani welcoming Chief Zwelebango Bhalizulu of Qunu on the day of his release from Robben Island.

The Nelson Mandela Museum a proud advocate of Nelson Mandela’s values has joined hands with the family of the late Chief Zwelebango Bhalizulu of Qunu, also a niece to Nelson Mandela.

Chief Zwelebango of Qunu, a former MK Cadre and an ANC Member was politically persecuted by the previous regime for his political involvement and he was later sentenced to Robben Island. After his release from prison in 1991 he retained his Chieftaincy. In 1995 Chief Zwelebango was assassinated by unknown assailants and he was buried at the Qunu Great Place.

Another MK Veteran Mzwandile Vena, also a son of Qunu, will give a tribute to the late Chief, Aaaah Zwelebango.

Mr. Matshongwe Edward Nkathazo is one of the political activists that contributed immensely to the struggle for a democratically elected government. His political involvement can be traced at the time when he was working for General Motors’ in Port Elizabeth in the early 1960’s. He was arrested in 1964 and sentenced to six years in imprisonment where most of those years were spent in Robben Island. At the time when Mr. Nkathazo was in prison Mrs. Nkathazo wrote a letter to Mr. Mandela. Mrs. Nkathazo will officially donate a letter of response from Nelson Mandela to the Nelson Mandela Museum.

“As a museum we felt obliged to honour and remember the role played by Chief Zwelebango Bhalizulu and that of comrade Nkathazo. We need to take note of the fact that our patron Nelson Mandela even mentioned that he was not alone in the liberation of this country. The restoration of these grave sites symbolizes the theme ‘Remembering our heroes’.

The Mandela month is a month where every institution, individuals should play a role in the upliftment of communities”, said Khwezi Mpumlwana, C.E.O of the Nelson Mandela Museum.

For more details contact Ms. N.Tetani

Senior Manger Marketing and Communication

Cell: 082 483 4643 Fax: 047 538 0218 Email:mandelamuseum2@intekom.co.za

Nelson Mandela Museum invades Sterkstroom through ‘Inconversation’

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The Nelson Mandela Museum is making it possible for the learners and broader community of Sterkstroom and the surroundings to learn more about the two great leaders; Nelson Mandela and Chief Albert Luthuli during the youth month and the year of the ANC Centenary.

The exhibition ‘In Conversation: Nelson Mandela and Chief Albert Luthuli’ will be launched at the Sterkstroom Museum on Thursday 14 June 2012 from 10h00. This exhibition will remain on display at the Sterkstroom Museum in Sterkstroom for a period of 6 Months.

In Conversation: Nelson Mandela and Chief Albert Luthuli Exhibition was first launched at the Nelson Mandela Museum by the Former Minister Of Arts & Culture Ms Lulu Xingwana as a special 2010 World Cup Programme. It has travelled to several parts of the country which include Robben Island Museum, Brandfort, Tshwane, Constitution Hill etc.

Dr Jabulani Sithole, a seasoned political analyst and a Director for Historical studies at the Universityof Kwazulu Natal, will share his expertise about the lives and the roles played by the two former presidents of the ANC and Nobel Prize winners.

This is a conceptualized exhibition aimed at inspiring, educating and most of all, influences debate among ordinary citizens of South Africa and the world. The exhibition further encourages South Africans and the people of the world to refrain from discriminatory actions and to adhere to the principles of Ubuntu and Justice. It further reflects to the ANC’s 4 pillars of the struggle and to sentiments shared by other struggle stalwarts in their course for a democratic South Africa.

The launch of ‘In Conversation’: Mandela and Luthuli exhibition during the youth month is no coincidence as it also reminds South Africans about role of the 1976 generation and the life imprisonment of Nelson Mandela and others on the 12^th June 1964.

It is during the sentencing of the ANC leaders when Chief Albert Luthuli appealed to the world to save these men, not merely as individuals but for what they stood for. He further appealed to the governments of the world to impose sanctions on South Africa. The exhibition looks at the sacrifices made by these two Presidents and their contribution in the struggle.

The launch of ‘In Conversation’: Mandela and Luthuli exhibition in Sterkstroom also came at a time when South Africans celebrate the milestone achievement of the African National Congress as a liberation movement. The exhibition of these gallant Human Rights activities and Nobel Prize winners will help inform and present similarities of political statements and leadership qualities shared by the two Presidents of the ANC in their quest to unite the oppressed and unity among African National Congress members.

The two day event will first allow learners to do a research about the two Icons and later have debates to test the knowledge skills and public speaking. It will further allow learners share their poetic narration skills. The outstanding school within the debating category will be awarded with receive its award on the 14^th of June 2012 during the launch.

Venue: Sterkstroom Town Hall

Time: 10h00

Date: 13^th June 2012 – Debate Session

Date; 14^th June 2012 Official Launch and a handover of Trophies

For more details contact Ms. N.Tetani;Senior Manger Marketing and Communication

Cell: 082 483 4643 Fax: 047 538 0218

nokuzola@nelsonmandelamuseum.org.za/mandelamuseum2@intekom.co.za

’ Crossings’ exhibition launch – Nelson Mandela Museum, Qunu

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The Nelson Mandela Museum is proud to showcase a group exhibition by FIVE artists who participated in the 2011 Nelson Mandela Museum Arts Incubator Program. The exhibition will be held at the Nelson Mandela Youth and Heritage Centre, Qunu and the opening will be on the 08^th of December 2011.

The Nelson Mandela Youth and Heritage Centre, now the new home of all the exhibitions of Dr. Nelson Mandela, including those that were housed at the Bhunga building in Mthatha, has been a home to the five Arts Incubator Program participants for the last eight weeks. The program aims to afford artists the opportunity to access knowledge by providing workshops and seminars by professionals coming from both the art and business sectors through an eight week program held at the museum in Qunu. The Nelson Mandela Arts Incubator Program is fully funded by the museum.

Artists are drawn from different areas of the Eastern Cape Province and are mentored into gaining an understanding between the arts and business practices in order to manage and grow their careers and businesses.

When the program was launched in 2010, we never expect to be rewarded within the short period of time. One of our program participants Sikhumbuzo Makhandula’s works was selected for the 2011 prestigious Sasol New Signatures competition. In the final selection of the competition, his work won the 2^nd place and was chosen among a group of artworks which were selected all over South Africa.

“Their experiences during the incubation process will surely now and in the future inform; how they look, think, act, produce and even talk about the art in general. The title, ‘Crossings,’ is thus an outcome of a short but intense time and process of their ‘transformation’. Churchill Madikida.

Through various partnerships, the Arts Incubator Program will strive to provide program participants with various opportunities and networks that will ensure sustainable careers within the arts industries.

“The Arts Incubator program has and it will always play an important role in the development of art. We are proud about the achievements of the program and we also seen previous participants showcasing their art work at the 2011Sasol New Signatures competition. It is through achievements of this nature that we pledge to the private sector to come on board and assist the Nelson Mandela Museum in the sustainability of its programs.

“Our mentor Dr. Nelson Mandela Once said:”Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. “As an institution we pledge to fulfil the educational values preached by Dr. Nelson Mandela”, said Nelson Mandela Museum C.E.O. Khwezi Mpumlwana.