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The Four-Way Test
Of the things we think, say or do:
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Will it build Will it be
Is it the Is it FAIR
GOODWILL and BENEFICIAL
TRUTH? to all
BETTER to all
concerned?
FRIENSHIPS? conserned?
Archives of the
Nelson Mandela Foundation
Archives
The Nelson Mandela Foundation has in its custody an archive of the life and times, works
and writings of its Founder, the late Nelson Mandela. The physical collections include the
handwritten papers, official records and unique artefacts from the personal archive of
Nelson Mandela in addition to records from the Office of Nelson Mandela after his
retirement as President of South Africa in 1999, and the records of related significant
organisations and individuals. It is the NMF’s imperative to document this vast resource,
facilitate access to it, and promote its preservation and use.
Extensive measures have been undertaken to preserve the physical collections to
international standards. Purpose built archival facilities were created with customised
temperature, relative humidity, light levels, and air quality controls with individual
collection materials already having undergone strict archival processes such as
identification, cataloguing, deacidification, and now digitisation.
Nothing’s impossible
“It always seems impossible, until it is done.”
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