July 1, 2024

Loughborough University’s Institute of Advanced Studies welcomes Residential Fellow Zandile Myeka from Nelson Mandela Foundation for the month of July

The Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) invited Zandile to become an IAS Residential Fellow at Loughborough University for July 2024. Zandile works in the field of archives, information, and knowledge management, currently serving as the Metadata and Photographic Archivist for the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory at the prestigious Nelson Mandela Foundation. Born and raised […]

April 26, 2024

Exhibition launch for ‘Named after Nelson: Learning from places named after Nelson Mandela through graphic heritage’ at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg.

More than 100 people attended the launch of the ‘Named after Nelson’ exhibition at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg on 25 April 2024 Thanks to funding from the Higher Education Innovation Fund, Loughborough University worked with the Nelson Mandela Foundation and Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) to stage this exhibition. as project partners to stage this exhibition. The […]

October 20, 2022

GCRF/Newton Fund award for the project Mandela place-making through graphic heritage

Mandela place-making through graphic heritage Building on the findings from the Repositioning Graphic Heritage, this award will apply the research findings in the complex and vibrant context of civic spaces that draw upon the toponymic legacy of Nelson Mandela. In collaboration with the Nelson Mandela Foundation in South Africa, the project will provide opportunity, benefits, […]