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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.

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....

For their 67 minutes for Nelson Mandela International Day on 18 July 2018, Firstassist, First Road Emergency, and Help24 tow truck drivers distributed 3,000 blankets to people in need in Johannesburg.

Conlog has presented a science laboratory to Malefo Secondary School, which is situated in Tweelaagte, Rustenburg.

MANDELA: 100 Moments in Time - A Centenary Memorial Exhibition by Dr Peter Magubane launched on Friday 6 July at the Nelson Mandela Gateway to Robben Island at the V&A Waterfront. The exhibition features 100 images of Nelson Mandela as taken by veteran South African photojournalist 86-year-old Dr Peter Magubane. The exhibition will run till the 30 September.

Smiths Manufacturing recently sponsored the Mariannpark Primary School's new science laboratory and resource facilities.

Local NPO Blue Sky Society Trust (BSST) along with IT Trailblazers, Network Configurations, and WESSA uMngeni Valley recently teamed up with 120 children from three different schools to plant 250 trees as part of the Trees4KZN initiative.

King Shaka International Airport provides a formula for science in KwaZulu-Natal schools.

The King Shaka International Airport has donated Caps (Curriculum Assessment Policy Statements) compliant natural science and mathematics kits along with mobile libraries to six primary schools in the KwaMashu and Inanda areas north of Durban.

The Sage Foundation recently launched an initiative aimed at equipping schools with mobile libraries. The objective of the initiative is to improve learners' literacy levels and will include the donation of mobile libraries at schools across the country. The most recent mobile library was donated to the Saphinda Primary School in Umlazi, south of Durban.

The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) and the Nelson Mandela Foundation recently brought the Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) to Johannesburg, South Africa to mark the 100th anniversary of the former president's birth.