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Winnie’s museum

Winnie’s museum

THE house Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was banished to by the apartheid authorities is to become a museum.

Some N$1,6 million is to be set aside to renovate the tiny rural home in Brandfort, Free State. Nelson Mandela’s ex-wife was sent there from Soweto in 1976.During her stay, she organised a clinic, but her house was twice burnt.Officials hope the museum will generate income for the area.”We have lost lots of mining jobs in recent years, so we hope this will be a real boost for the local economy,” District Mayor Mathabo Mokapo told the BBC.During her nine-year exile in Brandfort, Madikizela-Mandela was not allowed a telephone or to visit her husband regularly in jail and was kept away from the media, friends, colleagues.She came to be seen at home and abroad as a symbol of the fight against apartheid.- BBCNelson Mandela’s ex-wife was sent there from Soweto in 1976.During her stay, she organised a clinic, but her house was twice burnt.Officials hope the museum will generate income for the area.”We have lost lots of mining jobs in recent years, so we hope this will be a real boost for the local economy,” District Mayor Mathabo Mokapo told the BBC.During her nine-year exile in Brandfort, Madikizela-Mandela was not allowed a telephone or to visit her husband regularly in jail and was kept away from the media, friends, colleagues.She came to be seen at home and abroad as a symbol of the fight against apartheid.- BBC

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