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For close to three years we’ve dedicated many hours to the 46664 Bangle project – and we’ve done our best to keep promoting the good work of this inspiring initiative in support of the 46664 campaign of the Nelson Mandela Foundation.

It requires consistent focus for a Blog to be interesting and useful, and we’re no longer able to maintain a regular blog feed for the 46664 Bangle on this particular web site.

This blog is rich with content on Madiba, 46664, the 46664 Bangle, news from the Nelson Mandela Foundation, and many humanitarian and HIV AIDS-related stories and updates. Feel free to browse our archives and enjoy the wealth of information!

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Also … remember Nelson Mandela Day – not only on July 18, which is Nelson Mandela’s birthday – but consider what you can do every day, in honor of Madiba's service to humanity and his legacy of social justice.

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Nelson Mandela Foundation Recommends Book As Compelling Read

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

@NelsonMandela = New Twitter Identity

Is Madiba tweeting? Well, not quite, but the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory is happy to announce that they have secured "@NelsonMandela" as their official Twitter identity.

The Twitter account had been registered by an online consultant in the UK, who was happy to hand over the name to the centre. More details here.

Watch out for more social media activity from the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, through their official Facebook, YouTube and Flickr profiles - all excellent places to keep up to date with information about Living the Legacy of Nelson Mandela.

Zenani Mandela Scholarship Focuses on Road Safety

Photo courtesy of the Nelson Mandela Foundation

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."

Public to Help Identify Nelson Mandela Photos

Photo courtesy of the Nelson Mandela Foundation

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

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.