Celebrating the Mandela-Rhodes partnership
The historic Mandela-Rhodes partnership will be celebrated when Rhodes House hosts the Ninth Meeting of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation Trustees on 19 March.
The Mandela Rhodes Foundation was established in 2003 by agreement between the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the Rhodes Trust.
In this initiative at the time of the Rhode Trust’s centenary, the Rhodes Trustees wished to give modern expression to the Trust’s longstanding commitment to South Africa, and to contribute further to educational opportunity in Africa.
The Mandela Rhodes Foundation contributes to leadership development in Africa through supporting African students undertaking tertiary study in South Africa.
It is a measure of the significant success of the Foundation that a number of Mandela Rhodes Scholars have subsequently been selected as Rhodes Scholars. These are:
- Janet Jobson (South Africa-at-Large & St Antony’s 2007)
- Bryony Green (Zimbabwe & St Antony’s 2007)
- Bronwyn Tarr (St Andrew’s College, Grahamstown & Hertford 2009), whose home is in Namibia
- Garikai Nyaruwata (Zimbabwe & University 2009), and
- Christopher McConnachie (South Africa-at-Large 2010)
The Mandela Rhodes Trustees include three Rhodes Trustees and the Warden of Rhodes House, and alternate their annual meetings between South Africa and Oxford.
The chief executive officer of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation is a Rhodes Scholar, Shaun Johnson (South Africa-at-Large & St Catherine's 1982).
