Honouring the late Nelson Mandela, International Patron of The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre.
A public invitation from the Inaugural Director Elizabeth Ho OAM
We are deeply saddened by the death of Nelson Mandela, the international patron of the Hawke Centre at the University of South Australia. We offer our sympathies to his family and to the people of South Africa.
At the invitation of former Prime Minister Bob Hawke, Nelson Mandela accepted the role of International Patron in 2001. At the time, Mandela commended the Centre’s efforts to strengthen democracy and value cultural diversity, stating: “such values are necessary if we are to create sustainable societies and a peaceful world”.
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Mandela has for some years been honoured in our Kerry Packer Civic Gallery at the Hawke Centre through the permanent Mandela Wall display. The Gallery is devoted to the ideal of reconciliation and records his global work for humanity as well as promoting the importance of reconciliation between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians here at home.
We will open a memory book in the Gallery space for members of the South Australian community, Centre supporters and volunteers, and University of South Australia staff and students, to record their appreciation of Mandela’s life and his contribution to reconciliation and peace. A facsimile copy will be sent to the Nelson Mandela Foundation in South Africa as a token of esteem from the Hawke Centre, and from all those who have recorded their tributes.
The memory book will be available to sign in the Kerry Packer Civic Gallery at the Hawke Centre, from 9am to 4pm on weekdays, from Tuesday 10 December until Friday 20 December.
Please come and record your personal tribute to Mandela. We are a long way from South Africa, but we are keen to send the Nelson Mandela Foundation many messages showing how far the Mandela ideals have travelled and influenced the world, including Australians, and how much we have all admired him – a truthful and humane world leader and an example to us all.
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