2007 Annual Report
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NELSON MANDELA FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT 2007 TABLE OF CONTENTS MESSAGE FROM THE FOUNDER 4 MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRPERSON: PROFESSOR G J GERWEL 8 REVIEW BY CHIEF EXECUTIVE: MR ACHMAT DANGOR 10 THE MEMORY PROGRAMME 14 THE DIALOGUE PROGRAMME 22 ANNUAL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 34 THE NELSON MANDELA LEGACY CHARITIES 60 THE NELSON MANDELA FOUNDATION AFFILIATES 64 THE NELSON MANDELA FOUNDATION STAFF 68 THE NELSON MANDELA FOUNDATION DONORS & SUPPORTERS 72 THE NELSON MANDELA FOUNDATION CONTACT DETAILS 75 NELSON MANDELA FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT 2007 | PAGE 3 MESSAGE FROM MR NELSON MANDELA FOUNDER OF THE FOUNDATION PAGE 4 | NELSON MANDELA FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT 2007 | PAGE 5 In June 2004, we announced our retirement from dialogue about our present and future. This is public life. That did not mean, we pointed out, very important if we are to avoid repeating the that the work we have been involved in would mistakes of the past and contribute towards the come to an end. We established organisations creation of a better world. to carry on that work in an even more focussed way now that the attention could shift from Many people have played important roles the individual to the organisations: the Nelson in making the Foundation the efficient Mandela Foundation, the Nelson Mandela organisation it has become, allowing us to enjoy Children’s Fund and the Mandela Rhodes our retirement secure in the knowledge that the Foundation. work continues. It is a great privilege to observe in our retirement We wish to thank the members of the Board, the dedication with which these organisations including those that retired after the recent continue working in the areas we always held restructuring, for their wise guidance and dear: education, global awareness and fighting governance; our new CEO and his team for the HIV and AIDS pandemic, the development of the professional way they run our Foundation children and youth, the promotion of leadership and the care with which they manage our life and dialogue on the continent and establishing in retirement, and all the friends and supporters a memory resource of our rich history for the of the Foundation without whom none of this benefit of future generations. would have been possible. The Nelson Mandela Foundation has, We are enjoying our retirement, also because we after a period of careful introspection and know that our work is in good hands and that reconfiguration, emerged to focus on the two the legacy of our generation is being conserved, areas of Memory and Dialogue. kept alive, studied and debated. Without knowledge of your history you are We wish our Foundation well in this important in many respects like a tree without roots. A task. thorough understanding of your history, on the other hand, creates a platform for meaningful discourse. The Foundation’s Centre of Memory and Dialogue runs a range of programmes Mr Nelson Mandela introducing us to our history and opening up Founder of the Foundation “...without knowledge of your history you are like a tree without roots” PAGE 6 | NELSON MANDELA FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT 2007 | PAGE 7 A The year under review in this annual report at developing a protocol for co-operation and I wish to thank all of the staff for their sterling saw the Nelson Mandela Foundation decisively a sound working relationship among the three work and commitment, whether in the Centre making the transition to an organisation with a Mandela organisations, while also establishing a of Memory and Dialogue, the ancillary newly defined focus and governance structure. highly successful joint fundraising structure for programmes, the corporate and support services, the organisations in the United Kingdom. the households or the Founder’s office. There is After a period of intensive and broadly a stressfulness working in the name of Nelson consultative re-examination of purpose, mission The Board was reconstituted with a smaller Mandela that many people do not recognise. and mode of functioning, the Foundation number of members to enhance efficiency You are coping with those stresses in a way emerged with a defined focus on memory and and good corporate governance. Many of the that deserves our admiration because you make dialogue. The Centre for Memory and Dialogue retiring Board members agreed to serve on our Foundation the excellent organisation it has was identified and established as the core of the a new advisory council, continuing to make become and you have made the life of our retired Foundation’s activities going forward. much appreciated contributions to the work of Founder easier and less stressful. the Foundation and its Centre for Memory and This re-examination was partly brought about Dialogue. To fellow board members, current and past: by the change in the way our Founder, Mr your knowledge, wisdom and advice made all of Mandela, would function. He announced in During the financial year a new CEO was this possible. The profundity of your reflections June 2004 that he would step down from public appointed. The process was professionally on how the Foundation could best serve the life, participating only in those activities and managed and in the end we were very fortunate legacy of the life and times of Nelson Mandela MESSAGE FROM events he would from time to time choose. to have Achmat Dangor, among other things a and his comrades will be remembered as the Whereas the Foundation previously functioned former CEO of the Children’s Fund, drawn back Foundation continues with its work on memory PROFESSOR as the overall post-presidential office of Mr from a United Nations position abroad. His vast and dialogue. Mandela, it was now charged with focussing on experience in NGO work was immediately felt G J GERWEL a particular aspect or aspects of his work, while and under his leadership we are truly underway And we all join, I am sure, in wishing our Founder CHAIRPERSON OF of course continuing to provide support to him to become the world class organisation we wish the peace and contentment of retirement he has THE FOUNDATION and managing his schedule. to be. sought and that he surely deserves. We assure him that this Foundation – as the other two sister After the departure of the previous Chief Endowment raising remains a top priority for the organisations – will work to its utmost to keep Executive Officer in the latter part of the Foundation. Various initiatives are underway, the legacy of his life and times alive. previous financial year, Shaun Johnson, CEO some of them run independently by the NMF, of our sister organisation the Mandela Rhodes others jointly among the sister organisations. “The Centre of Foundation, added to his functions, Interim The Centre of Memory and Dialogue, now Memory and CEO of the NMF. the clearly defined and articulated core of the Foundation, is attracting increasing attention Dialogue was Shaun did an excellent job clearing up all and interest from donors and funders. _________________ the outstanding issues, finalising the mission Professor GJ Gerwel identified as the core restatement, establishing the appropriate The period 2006-2007 was one of the most Chairperson of the Foundation governance structures and processes, and successful years in the Foundation’s existence; of the Foundation’s generally putting the Foundation on a very it was a year of consolidation, renewal and a activities.” sound organisational footing. He worked hard clear mapping of the way forward. PAGE 8 | NELSON MANDELA FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT 2007 | PAGE 1 – 2006, THE FORMATIVE YEARS: Following the Foundation’s strategic review that We welcome these organisations to the family A RICH HISTORY began in 2004, these programmatic interventions of Mandela development and charitable Our Chairperson, Professor Gerwel, has in have either been transferred to the appropriate organisations. Their work along with that of his review summarised the Nelson Mandela government authorities or have led to the our established sister organisations – the Nelson Foundation’s transition from a broad-based establishment of fully fledged, independent Mandela Children’s Fund and the Mandela programme implementation agency into a organisations charged with carrying on the Rhodes Foundation – are bound, cumulatively, contemporary ‘memory’ institution focused work that Mr Mandela had initiated. Two such to make significant impact on human develop- on promoting the legacy of Nelson Mandela, developments are worthy of special note: ment efforts in Africa. and most importantly, the values inherent to that legacy. • The “46664” Campaign, though wholly ENSURING THAT THE LEGACY LIVES ON owned by the Foundation, now functions - Into the future The Nelson Mandela Foundation indeed has a under the guidance of an independent Board In November 2006, the Foundation’s Board rich history in the areas of education and health, of Trustees. The Campaign spent much of formally approved the Centre of Memory and can be proud of what it has contributed the year under review overhauling its and Dialogue as the Foundation’s core work. toward the upliftment of disadvantaged strategies and creating a new brand. While Already, significant progress has been made in communities. its traditional concert programme will implementing that vision. A detailed report on its remain an important awareness and fund activities and successes are recorded elsewhere Between 1 and October 2002, more than raising vehicle, its core strategy is to help in this report. REVIEW BY 120 schools were built through the Foundation’s stimulate or strengthen