67 Blankets for Nelson Mandela Day breaks Guiness World Record The 3133 square metres of handmade blankets knitted, crocheted or quilted by the knitwits of 67 Blankets for Nelson Mandela Day has broken a Guinness World Record – it is the largest area covered by a blanket. Carolyn Steyn, founder of the 67 Blankets for […]
Letter from a Westville Prisoner Dear Captain, Do you believe that everything happens for a reason? That there are no coincidences in life, that everything is as it should be? Well I certainly do now more than ever. I firstly want to take this opportunity in expressing my heartfelt gratitude to you for embracing us […]
Prisons Ahead of the first anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s death, inmates at a South African prison have been making brightly colored blankets to commemorate the anti-apartheid leader who became South Africa’s first black president. The prisoners at the Zonderwater medium security facility outside Pretoria, the South African capital, have sewn the blankets as part of […]