The museum, built at a cost of R22m, has won several international architecture awards.
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But residents closed down the museum in protest over a housing dispute. They wanted their defective 48 square metre RDP houses, built in 1998, to be rebuilt, but the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality and the provincial department of human settlements said the houses could only be rebuilt at 40 square metres. Residents said this was too small and shut down the museum in protest.
Masiza Mazizi, spokesperson for human settlements MEC Nonkqubela Pieters, said negotiations over the rebuilding of the houses were now over and approvals had been signed. Msikinya confirmed that the committee had received a letter via the ward councillor that their housing demands had been approved and as a result the museum could be reopened.
“In September this year a Mazda 323 that was used for museum deliveries was stolen. It had been parked inside the museum since its closure. The storeroom where the wealth of this museum was kept has been destroyed,” Msikinya said.
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