New mobile phone app: "Madiba's journey"!

South African Tourism and the Nelson Mandela Foundation launched the "Madiba-inspired tourist attractions" map, which encourages tourists from around the world and South Africa to travel the country and walk in the footsteps of Nelson Mandela, in 2014. The map has now been developed into a GPS-enabled mobile phone app to further enhance visitors’ experiences in South Africa. The app uses location-based services and features tourist sites as well as general places of interest, including Mandela's post-presidential office at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory in Johannesburg, the Nelson Mandela Statue at Union Buildings in Pretoria, Nobel Square at the V&A Waterfront, Robben Island and Pollsmoor Prison (all in Cape Town) and Qunu in the Eastern Cape, where Madbia was laid to rest.

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The app "Madiba's journey" is now available for download in English from the Apple iTunes store (iOS devices) and the Google Play store (Android devices). It will soon be available in other languages, including Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa, Dutch, French, German, Italian, simple Mandarin and Portuguese.

Johannesburg: The Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory to open

update (19 March 2014): Just to confirm it: Nelson Mandela Centre Of Memory is free of charge, but by appointment only. Be sure to book well in advance.

update (18 Nov 2013): According to the BBC, the Nelson Mandela Centre Of Memory will open to the public in the first week of Feb 2014. It will be free of charge, but visitors will have to book online first.

The current President of the Republic of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, will today (18 Nov 2013) officially open the Nelson Mandela Centre Of Memory public facility and the permanent exhibition on the life and times of former President Nelson Mandela at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg in South Africa. The Nelson Mandela Centre Of Memory will be launched as a public facility that bears testament to the living legacy of former President Mandela.



The Nelson Mandela Foundation is located in 107 Central Street, Houghton, Johannesburg. We'll keep you posted regarding opening times, entrance fees etc.

South African Airways brands their planes with Nelson Mandela Foundation logo

South Africa's flag carrier South African Airways has unveiled the first aircraft in its fleet branded with the Nelson Mandela Foundation logo, ahead of the anti-apartheid icon's 93rd birthday on 18 July. Eventually, all 58 SAA planes will carry the logo both inside and outside of aircrafts in support of the Nelson Mandela Day. Nice move, SAA! Kudos!

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The official Nelson Mandela Day will be held globally on 18 July 2011. On that particular day the public is asked to give 67 min. of their time for volunteer work, one minute for each year Nelson Mandela was fighting for the rights of humanity.