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The Seychelles Tourism Board recently brought its annual Roadshow down to South Africa, which included stops in Johannesburg, Durban, and Cape Town.

Sponsors, donors, and volunteers gave back this past Mandela Day and the days thereafter by doing a wide variety of activities at Afrika Tikkun's Centres of Excellence in Cape Town and Johannesburg.

United Nations Messenger of Peace Charlize Theron recently visited non-profit organisation Dlalanathi in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal. Dlalanathi is one of nine Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project (CTAOP) programme partners.

Clover has awarded Dorah Semenya of the Shalate Drop-in Centre in Seshego, Limpopo with the 2018 funding for a valued site improvement as well as bread baking training. This forms part of the Clover Mama Afrika Madiba Week, which Clover is running with fleet and mobile asset management solutions company MiX Telematics.

Qhubeka, Tsogo Sun, and the City of Johannesburg donated 40 bicycles to the staff of Diepsloot Safe-Hub on 26 June 2018. The bicycles will help the staff in their efforts to build the Safe-Hub programme in the area by travelling further, faster, and at no cost.

To play its part in giving back to communities this past Mandela Day on 18 July 2018, Coca-Cola Peninsula Beverages and its partners used its 67 minutes to distribute food parcels to various places in the Western Cape.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF) alongside the Thebe Property Asset Management (TPAM) and Thebe Tourism Group (TTG) will convert former President Nelson Mandela's Houghton residence into a multi-purpose facility. The Mandela Presidential Centre project's professional team, led by TPAM, also includes Maru Spaces Architects; Kim h Interiors; Aurecon and MWV Engineers; GD Irons Construction; Kiwango Quantity Surveyors and Upper Level Town Planning. Khensani Heritage Consulting will be managing the preservation of Madiba's heritage on the site....

Pikitup, the City of Johannesburg's department of water and sanitation alongside, Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba and several sponsors, arranged a cleanup operation in Orlando West in Soweto on Nelson Mandela International Day, 18 July 2018. The clean up also served as the handover of 30 Qhubeka bicycles to a group of youth, women, and men from the Emaplatini Heritage Site who spend their spare time voluntarily cleaning up and monitoring illegal dumping zones....

The Pick n Pay and FoodForward SA 2018 Mandela Day Food Drive collected 132 tonnes of food or the equivalent of 528,000 meals since its launch on 13 July 2018; the final donation figures are expected to be available by 20 July 2018. The drive encouraged customers to donate non-perishable food items in any of the 500 participating Pick n Pay stores nationwide. Customers could also make a cash donation at the till point, or volunteer their time to engage and educate shoppers about the food drive....