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FIGHTING THE SYSTEM: Photographs of a young Nelson Mandela burning the hated dompas pass books on display at the Gold Reef City Apartheid Museum. Pic: Thembinkosi Dwayisa 14/5/03.

A multi-million rand development will start soon at the site in Howick where former president Nelson Mandela was arrested 49 years ago, KwaZulu-Natal co-operative governance said on Tuesday.

   The development would include a museum, a multipurpose theatre and an amphitheatre, said provincial co-operative governance spokesman Vernon Mchunu.    

The project would be launched on August 5, during the commemoration of Mandela’s arrest, he said. Apartheid Museum board member advocate George Bizos was expected to attend.

   Mandela was arrested in 1962, three kilometres outside Howick, near Pietermaritzburg, on the main road to Johannesburg.

   He had been leaving the Groutville home of former African National Congress president Chief Albert Luthuli after discussing the armed struggle. Mandela spent 27 years in prison.

   Mchunu said the uMngeni Municipality and the department of co-operative governance had acquired the property adjacent to the capture site on the R103.

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Aug 2, 2011

AfricanEuropean

Excellent, hope they add plenty entertainment for young and old so that it truly prospers :)
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Aug 2, 2011

Mpotjekegobotje

mmmmm...not bad at all.
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Aug 2, 2011

LEBzinho

U R WASTING GOVERNMENT 'S MONEY ON ON SOMETHNG WHICH IS NOT PARAMOUNT. U SHOULD GIVE PREFERENCE UPON FUNDING SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROGRAMME FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COUNTRY AT LARGE.
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Aug 3, 2011

LBS

And who is going to use these facilities?

There is a dire shortage of housing and services in the area not to mention very erratic power supply.
When will the government focus on needs instead of wants, and 'nice to have facilities'?

Isn't the uMngeni Municipality also the focus of fraud/corruption and gross mismanagement of public funds or is that little fact not important in the bigger scheme?
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Aug 3, 2011

Kgabane

There are plenty of poor and unemployed people out there but the goverment waste money on such things which will not even have in pack on our economy-who is to benefit on this? why cant cant we name the air port after Mandela and carry on with our lives?
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Aug 3, 2011

TDK

Sick and tired of Mandela this, Mandela that. What about people who are suffering out there?
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Aug 3, 2011

themadam

How will the community benefit from this? This is just wastefull expenditure. nxin
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Aug 3, 2011

LaceyDuvalle

Mara vele the man has been honoured enough bathong. Cant we use that money to eradicate imikhukhu yaseHowick?
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Aug 3, 2011

AK1234

Can't say more as much as i like the old man i also think he is been honoured enough already.
What abt other politicians who died for democracy too???
I wish the ANC will one day hounor "Robert Smangaliso Sobukwe" with something big.

I understand the guy was not an ANC when he died but he was a product of the ANC.

He also deserve to be honoured like a hero.
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Aug 4, 2011

Luya_X

@AK1234 That's probably the only reason I hate Mandela and they ANC, they don't honour the likes of Hani, Tiro, Biko, "Prof " Sobukhwe and all the other forgotten warriors, they act as if Mandela was fighting alone in the struggle for liberation.

Tax payer’s money is being spent ridiculously in this country and it's a shame that we have to build white elephants just to honour "Mandela" whilst people are starving and homeless. If anyone can change this, it’s the tax payers!!!

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