Sanctuary Mandela is a boutique hotel that was Madiba’s Joburg home from 1992 to 1998. For guests, this unique space provides an intimate, living connection to the former president.
Sanctuary Mandela’s imposing gates on Houghton’s 13th Avenue swung open and I approached the arched portico, where I was greeted by a bronze sculpture of Nelson Mandela reading a newspaper. The statue, by André Prinsloo, was commissioned as a replica of a famous photo of Madiba reading the news in this very spot.
Madiba grew to love the house and invited his grandsons Mandla, Mbuso, Ndaba and Andile to live with him here. When he married Graça Machel in 1998, he moved with her into a new home a block away on 12th Avenue. The house on 13th Avenue then became the headquarters of the newly established Nelson Mandela Foundation – an organisation focusing on memory, dialogue and legacy work.
This statue by André Prinsloo was commissioned as a replica of a famous photo of Madiba reading the news in this very spot. The Meyer painting, ‘Pillars of Stone’, depicts Mandela breaking limestone in Robben Island’s quarry.
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