NURSULTAN NAZARBAYEV FOUNDATION SIGNES BILETERAL DOCUMENT WITH THEMBEKILE MANDELA FOUNDATION

24 August 2021. Nur-Sultan-Tshwane. Honourable Ms. Ndileka Mandela, Founder and CEO of the Thembekile Mandela Foundation, arrived on 23 August 2021 in Nur-Sultan. Ms. Ndileka Mandela's important trip to the capital of Kazakhstan began with a visit to the Nursultan Nazarbayev Foundation, where she met with Mr. Kanat Jumabaev, Executive Director of the Foundation.

 

Ms. Ndileka Mandela is the eldest grandchild of H.E. Mr. Nelson Mandela, the First President of the Republic of South Africa, a Nobel Prize laureate. She founded the Thembekile Mandela Foundation, named after her father Madiba (Leader) Thembekile Mandela, first child of Right Honourable Nelson Mandela, and also an international programme under the auspices of the United Nations, Leading like Mandela.

 

A guest from South Africa got acquainted with the multifaceted activities of the Nursultan Nazarbayev Foundation and spoke about the areas of work of the Thembekile Mandela Foundation.

 

She said that the Foundation was founded by her in 2014. The main task of the Foundation is to continue and promote the humanitarian legacy of Right Honourable Nelson Mandela and his first son Thembekile Mandela. The Foundation contributes to the implementation of the sustainable development goals within the UN Agenda 2030. It also promotes and creates opportunities for the development of youth and women, and contributes to the improving the quality of life for people in Africa and around the world.

 

In turn, Mr. Kanat Dzhumabaev, speaking about the activities of the Nursultan Nazarbayev Foundation, emphasized that many areas of work of the two organizations are similar. Both Foundations, among other things, implement social projects, projects in the field of education, self-realization of young people, etc.

 

It should be noted that Honourable Ms. Ndileka Mandela, as a public and political figure, actively supports the initiatives of the First President of Kazakhstan, H.E. Mr. Nursultan Nazarbayev. So, she is the head of the representative office of the International Platform "G-Global" in Africa, whose activities were initiated by the Leader of the Kazakhstani Nation (Elbasy).

 

Honourable Ms. Ndileka Mandela also serves as Chairperson of the International Foundation “Contribution of Youth to the Implementation of the SDGs and the UN 2030 Agenda” within G-Global Platform, as well as a member of the International Board of the “Global Silk Road Award”. She also joined recently the Alliance of Global Leadership for nuclear security and a nuclear-weapon-free world (whose work was initiated by the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan).

 

At the end of the meeting, the heads of the two Foundations signed a Memorandum of Understanding.