Mandela House
The Mandela House is a museum in Soweto in the South African metropolitan municipality City of Johannesburg , which is dedicated to the resistance fighter and President Nelson Mandela (1918-2013). Mandela lived there for a time.
description
The single-story red-brick residential building is on the corner of Vilakazi Street and Ngakane Street in the Orlando West district . His address is 8115 Vilakazi Street. There are bullet holes and burn marks from Molotov cocktails on the outer walls . Nearby are the Tutu House , where the future Archbishop Desmond Tutu lived, and the Hector Pieterson Memorial .
The house can be visited. Among other things, there is furniture used by Mandela and his family, as well as photos, quotes from Mandela and souvenirs such as the world championship belt of the boxer Sugar Ray Leonard , which he once gave to Mandela. The museum has a visitor center. The museum has educational programs for schoolchildren.
history
The house was built in 1945 according to standardized construction plans. Nelson Mandela moved in with his then family in 1946. His first wife was divorced and he married Winnie Mandela . Nelson Mandela lived there until 1962 before going underground and later serving a long prison sentence. Winnie Mandela lived in the house with their children until they were banished to Brandfort . After his release in February 1990, Nelson Mandela moved back into the house. In his autobiography The Long Road to Freedom , he wrote that it was only there that he had the feeling of freedom. However, he only stayed there for eleven days and later moved into a house in Johannesburg's Houghton Estate .
After the divorce from Winnie Mandela, Nelson Mandela gave the house to the Soweto Heritage Trust on September 1, 1997, which opened a small museum there in December of the same year. However, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela refused to vacate the house and set up a museum. In 1999 the house was declared a National Monument (" National Monument ") and again given to the Soweto Heritage Trust . From 2008 to 2009 the museum was renovated and a visitor center was set up.
See also
Web links
- The museum website (English)
- Mandela House Museum at sa-venues.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Mandela House Museum at sa-venues.com (English), accessed on February 22, 2018
- ↑ a b c d e History of the Mandela House at mandelahouse.com (English), accessed on February 22, 2018
Coordinates: 26 ° 14 ′ 18.7 ″ S , 27 ° 54 ′ 31.6 ″ E