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This edition of Leadership is for the Nelson Mandela Children’s FundI am proud to say that this edition of Leadership pays tribute to Tata Madiba’s birthday. We are honoured and grateful to Shaun Johnson from The Mandela Rhodes Foundation and Achmat Dangor from the Nelson Mandela Foundation for their involvement in this issue.
With Mandela Day on 18 July, and it being his birthday month, it seemed apt to approach the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund in the hope of giving something back. I am very pleased that all the magazine sales from the July edition of Leadership will go directly to the Fund. It is a small gesture, and our way of honouring the great man.
Mandela has crossed the boundaries of gender, race, religion and age. He has done so in a society that was once more polarised than most others – one the world expected to explode along racial and ethical lines. That it did not, was largely due to this extraordinary man and his unique leadership style.
Madiba’s influence transforms ordinary people, events and actions into the extraordinary. A man who has managed to inspire his people and the rest of the world through human actions. That gives us much to celebrate.
Thank you, Tata, and happy 93rd birthday.
Thank you, readers, for supporting Leadership magazine and the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund. Here below is a special message from the latter’s acting chief executive officer:
We owe our existence to the thought that crossed our founder and former president Nelson R. Mandela in 1994. We share the same age as our country’s democracy, of which the world-acclaimed all-inclusive general elections were held on 27 April 1994.
While Mandela’s guiding hand gave the country initial impulse to bridge the divisions of the past, he gave the Children’s Fund a vision that has, since 1994, been a driving force behind the reason for its existence: “To change the way society treats its children.” Our target group is between 0 and 22 years.
This makes the Children’s Fund a national asset, for society to re-examine its ways, and a platform for the remaking of a world that future generations would be proud to inherit. That future, though, demands laying tomorrow’s foundation today.
Your donations not only lay a brick in society’s future foundation, but also help to advance a wish most dear to our founder Nelson Mandela to create a world fit for children by way of marking his 93rd birthday.
Moipone Buda-Ramatlo
Acting CEO
Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund
