Apartheid Museum

Apartheid Museum

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click below to access our online shop     We are open every day of the week from 9h00 to 17h00. There are no guided tours available on a Monday. Guided tours are only offered to 15 people or more. Admission Fee (Price increases below are applicable from 1 May 2018) Adults: R95.00 Pensioners, university students and children: R80.00 School learners: R40.00 Teachers: R45.00             Visit the Capture Site   To see this sculpture of Mandela, visit the Capture Site between Nottingham Road and Howick in KwaZulu-Natal. In 2012, to mark the 50th anniversary of Mandela's arrest, a sculpture was erected in the landscape near Howick in KwaZulu-Natal, where Mandela was captured in 1962. This site is now known as the Capture Site. The sculpture by artist Marco Cianfanelli consists of 50 steel poles between 6 metres and 10 metres high. At a certain point, the 50 linear vertical steel columns line up, magically recreating an image of Nelson Mandela's face. As you walk closer towards and through the sculpture, the image dissolves back into the forest of 50 poles,  and eloquently becomes part of the surrounding landscape. As Cianfanelli observes, "The 50 columns represent the 50 years since Nelson Mandela's capture, but they also suggest the idea of the many making the whole: of solidarity. Mandela's incarceration cemented his status as an icon of the struggle, which

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cnr Gold Reef Rd & Northern Parkway Ormonde, Johannesburg
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