NELSON MANDELAFOUNDATION CENTRE OF MEMORY & DIALOGUE - ANNUAL REPORT MARCH 2008 - FEBRUARY 2009 Message from the Founder: Mr Nelson Mandela 2 Message from the Chairperson: Professor G J Gerwel 6 Review by the Chief Executive: Mr Achmat Dangor 10 The Year at a Glance 14 The Memory Programme 16 The Dialogue Programme 32 Resource Mobilisation 48 Trustees of the Nelson Mandela Foundation 52 Staff of the Nelson Mandela Foundation 58 Annual Financial Statements 64 Donors of the Nelson Mandela Foundation 112 Nelson Mandela Charities 116 TABLE OF CONTENTS MESSAGE FROM THE FOUNDER MR NELSON MANDELA PAGE 2 | NELSON MANDELA FOUNDATION - ANNUAL REPORT 2009 | PAGE 3 MESSAGE FROM THE FOUNDER y message in this space last year spoke lessons we learned. It also strived to promote MR NELSON M about the long journey we have travelled dialogue within communities around issues that MANDELA in 89 years. Now it has moved on to 90 years and affect them critically. As we have said before, it the journey is far from over. So much still needs is important for people to have a safe space to talk to be done; peace and reconciliation is needed to each other, especially when there is a clash of everywhere, the struggle for social justice, against ideology, culture or race. hunger and poverty, continues. Our work is not yet done. We feel at ease in our retirement to see my charities work closely with each other and at the It is gratifying therefore to observe the progress manner in which they co-ordinate with the State that our charities, the Nelson Mandela Foundation, and other institutions that share a commitment to the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund and the drawing on the lessons of our history in order to Mandela Rhodes Foundation have made towards shape the future. implementing our request, upon our retirement in 2004, that they carry on this work. Our Foundation has over the past year worked hard to make available to the world the history Mr Nelson Mandela of our generation’s struggle for freedom and the Founder of the Nelson Mandela Foundation ‘So much still needs to be done; peace and reconciliation is needed everywhere, the struggle for social justice, against hunger and poverty, continues.’ PAGE 4 | NELSON MANDELA FOUNDATION - ANNUAL REPORT 2009 | PAGE 5 ‘Assembling s we end the second year of the Nelson Trial documents. The Nelson Mandela Centre of A Mandela Foundation’s five-year transitional Memory and Dialogue played a significant and archiving plan, it is a pleasure to report significant progress facilitative role in the process. It is hoped that Nelson Mandela’s towards establishing the Nelson Mandela Centre Brenthurst’s action will set a precedent whereby of Memory and Dialogue as a world class facility. other such national treasures now in private legacy, as well Assembling and archiving Nelson Mandela’s hands are handed back to the National Archives. as promoting legacy, as well as promoting dialogue around its meaning, is a complex task. This requires not The Dialogue Programme also broke new dialogue around only financial and human resources, but also ground. Using ‘social cohesion’ as the framework, its meaning, is a “organisational wisdom”. The Nelson Mandela a series of community level discussions, Centre of Memory and Dialogue is rapidly focusing on AIDS and on xenophobia, took complex task. This acquiring the skills and insights it needs to do place. The latter especially, occurring in the requires not only justice to this task. aftermath of tragic attacks on foreign nationals resident in our country, proved both timely and financial and In addition to vigorously pursuing its core work insightful. The flagship dialogue event, the Sixth of archiving and digitising historic material in Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture, presented by MESSAGE FROM human resources, PROFESSOR GJ GERWEL its possession, the Memory Programme played Liberian President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, once CHAIRPERSON OF THE but also a broader role, promoting closer collaboration more lived up to the high standards set by previous BOARD OF TRUSTEES “organisational between various archival institutions, and generally speakers. President Johnson-Sirleaf forthrightly helping to expand access to the records that depict addressed Africa’s challenges and opportunities, wisdom”.’ our country’s rich history. Truly noteworthy was stressing the importance of transparent and the voluntary gesture by the Brenthurst Library accountable government. to return into State custody valuable Rivonia PAGE 6 | NELSON MANDELA FOUNDATION - ANNUAL REPORT 2009 | PAGE MESSAGE FROM PROFESSOR GJ GERWEL CHAIRPERSON OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES All of this took place in the year that our being oppressed, there is more work to be done ... for their dedication and diligence in the way they Founder, Nelson Mandela turned 90. There was We say tonight, after nearly 90 years of life, it is have discharged their governance duties. A special an outpouring of affection, as people all over time for new hands to lift the burdens. It is in thanks to Dr Nthato Motlana who passed away in the world celebrated the ninth decade of a truly your hands now. I thank you.” December 2008. We will miss his friendship, his remarkable life. The accolades paid to him were insights and his commitment to the work of the much deserved, though they presented the For the Nelson Mandela Foundation, and at its Foundation. To the staff, a word of gratitude for Foundation as a whole and the Founder’s Office core the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory all the hard work, the long hours and the way they in particular, with joyous yet daunting challenges. and Dialogue, along with its sister organisations have dealt with very complex issues. Close to a quarter of a million messages were (the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund and the received, the majority simply wishing him Mandela Rhodes Foundation) the challenge Finally, I would like to repeat the reassurance well. They of course included a remarkable in the years ahead is to focus on providing we gave our Founder last year. You can indeed number of requests for Mr Mandela to intervene effective institutional platforms for the Founder’s enjoy your retirement. Your continuing work is in in crises around the world. All of this required humanitarian legacy. His example and values of the good hands of your Foundation and its sister careful, often sensitive, management. integrity, selflessness and inclusivity will continue organisations. to be our guide. Although demands on Mr Mandela have since settled down to their ‘normal’ hectic pace, it I wish to thank our donors for having assisted the is appropriate to remind ourselves and people Foundation as it strives towards attaining financial everywhere of his words when he spoke at a sustainability. As will be seen from the annual Professor GJ Gerwel celebratory concert in London in June 2008: financial statements, good progress has been Chairperson of the Board of Trustees “As we celebrate, let us remind ourselves that made, but much still needs to be done. We know our work is far from complete. Where there is that you will continue to support us in the years poverty and sickness … where human beings are ahead. Thanks also to my fellow board members, PAGE 8 | NELSON MANDELA FOUNDATION - ANNUAL REPORT 2009 | PAGE 9 ‘The Nelson ur Chairperson has in his message such as the Apartheid Museum and the Nelson Oaccurately highlighted the key challenge Mandela Museum that launched the Dear Mr Mandela that the Nelson Mandela Foundation and its sister Mandela, Dear Mrs Parks exhibition in Qunu Foundation organisations will face going into the future: in July 2008. providing effective institutional platforms for aspires to create the Founder’s humanitarian legacy. ‘Memory’ and archival advocacy work was a world class extended. It should be noted that archiving, an To ‘construct’ this platform from the Foundation’s often misunderstood and under-resourced function, institutional side, its Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory is going to be vital in South Africa’s efforts to platform for and Dialogue has focused significant energy record its history transparently and objectively. and resources on the core areas of its work. This The Programme participated in the establishment an important despite extraordinary demands on its capacity of a Freedom of Information network; helped aspect of Nelson during Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday. resuscitate the South African Society of Archivists; worked with the University of Cape Town to Mandela’s legacy: The MEMORY Programme continued to archive create an Archival Platform; and convened a promoting a just and digitise documents bequeathed to it by the consultative forum of institutions with a stake in REVIEW BY Founder. In keeping with our intention to facilitate the scattered Mandela archives. As mentioned by MR A E DANGOR society through access to the Mandela Archive, rather than seek our Chairperson, it played a key role in discussions CHIEF EXECUTIVE memory and its physical ownership, the Programme actively that led to the return of Rivonia Trial documents to OF THE FOUNDATION promoted its preservation and use by also archiving the National Archives. dialogue.’ and copying collections held elsewhere. The DIALOGUE programme successfully started This legacy was also made available through a to shift its focus from ‘summit’ discussions to range of exhibitions that travelled abroad or were community dialogues. Using the Community housed within other South African institutions Capacity Enhancement (CCE) methodology PAGE 10 | NELSON MANDELA FOUNDATION - ANNUAL REPORT 2009 | PAGE 11 REVIEW BY MR A E DANGOR CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE FOUNDATION pioneered by the United Nations Development took place in Kliptown, Soweto, at the historic communities to identify and deal with their Office, continue to manage Mr Mandela’s office Programme, these ‘community conversations’ try site where the Freedom Charter was adopted in everyday challenges and prejudices such as in a transparent and sensitive manner, balancing to support people as they grapple with critical 1955.