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Nelson Mandela has devoted a great deal of his time and resources since his release from prison to improving the lives of children around the world, but particularly in South Africa. He has given his own salary and prize money, and set up the Children's Fund to help the younger, more vulnerable members of society.
• The women in Madiba's life

Dr Mo Ibrahim, businessman, academic and philanthropist, delivered the 11^th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture at the University of South Africa in Pretoria on 17 August 2013. The theme for this year’s lecture was Building Social Cohesion and was a call to all Africans to work towards unity and democracy.
• A nation of paradoxes: Robinson

The Centre of Memory will keep alive Mandela's ideals and principles. It is a store of his history, and a space for dialogue on the present and future. The Children's Fund is investing in that future, through various programmes focused on the poor and vulnerable.
• Mandela posters show world's respect

With just days to go until Nelson Mandela International Day, and as Mandela enters his second month in hospital, people have been urged to make the day memorable in 2013.
• Nelson Mandela: a timeline

The Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory “needs to be interpreted in new ways by new generations”. The objective of the revamped centre is to document the fragmented Mandela archive, and “ultimately to ensure it is made available to the public”.
• Robben Island revisited digitally

Mary Robinson, former Irish president, member of The Elders, and president of the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice, delivered the tenth Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture on 5 August 2012 at the Cape Town City Hall.
• Mandela archive goes live

As the world prepares to honour Nelson Mandela on his 94th birthday, Cadine Pillay wonders what meal would mean the most to the former statesman on this great day.
• Madiba's life captured in art

From a book drive to help underprivileged schools build libraries, to a marathon commemorating the 1962 arrest in the KwaZulu-Natal town of Howick, Mandela Day events are all the buzz.
• Schools to benefit for Mandela Day

Exactly a month before former president Nelson Mandela celebrates his 94th birthday, South Africans and the world at large are urged to honour him with a special birthday song to make the event more special.
• Madiba birthday song a group effort