A spy pen gun, once owned by anti-apartheid icon and former ANC president Oliver 'OR' Tambo, will be auctioned as a non-fungible token in a historical South African first.
Between 1961 and 1963, Liliesleaf farm served as the secret headquarters of the ANC, SACP, Umkhonto we Sizwe , and the Congress Alliance.
Liliesleaf Trust founder and CEO Nicholas Wolpe said the proud owner of the NFT will obtain the right to experience and view the pen gun at the Liliesleaf Museum for life.“Being able to unlock the value of the unique assets held by Liliesleaf through the exponential power of blockchain technology is quite simply phenomenal.
“We’ll be making history by transforming South Africa’s painful past into a current, technological asset to experience that history,” Wolpe said. The spy pen gun is believed to have been gifted to Tambo by the East Germans, to help protect Tambo from any would-be assassins, during the mid 1980s. “If we can successfully leverage the power of NFTs to preserve our rich heritage, we will put SA on the global map in terms of innovation through crypto asset use and management,” Virtual Nation Builders CEO Maurice Crespi said.“No-one else has really thought about unlocking the true asset value of our historical artefacts using NFTs,” he said.TimesLIVE
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