Mandela

Voting came to a temporary halt at the Killarney Country Club in Houghton, Johannesburg as South Africa's favourite citizen, former president Nelson Mandela, cast his vote in the country's 2009 general elections.

Nelson Mandela moved into 8115 Vilakazi Street in Orlando West, Soweto in 1946. His second wife, Winnie, moved in with him in 1958. He returned there briefly in 1990, saying: "It was only then that I knew in my heart that I had left prison." Restored at a cost of R9-million, the house has re-opened to the public.

Two permanent exhibitions at Constitution Hill focus on the lives of two of the greatest souls in the world - Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi - both of whom called Johannesburg home.

Former South African Minister of Public Service and Administration Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi has been appointed to the top position of democratic governance director in the United Nations Development Programme's Bureau for Development Policy.

Mandela, an extensive new exhibition that took over a year to put together, has opened at the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg. Lucille Davie pays a visit - and gets goosebumps.

Making a positive contribution to the fight against HIV/Aids is now at the fingertips of more than 37-million people.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation and the National Archives have taken delivery of vital documents relating to the writing of Long Walk to Freedom and the historical Rivonia Treason Trial, in the presence of Madiba himself.

You either love him or you hate him, but award-winning political cartoonist Zapiro cannot be ignored. The artist’s latest exhibition, a tribute to Nelson Mandela, is currently running at the offices of the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg.

Mandela, an extensive new exhibition that took over a year to put together, has opened at the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, and is also set to travel abroad to tell the story of South Africa's most treasured person.

The Mandela Rhodes Foundation recently celebrated its fifth year, marking the festivity with achievements that its namesakes would be proud of.