Proceeds from sale will go towards reopening Liliesleaf Heritage Site
The spy pen gun is due to be auctioned at a live NFT auction on November 11 in Cape Town. Picture: SUPPLIED
Tambo led the ANC for almost a quarter century from 1967, during which he lived in exile and the party was outlawed for opposing SA’s whites-only apartheid government. He earlier helped found the ANC Youth League with Nelson Mandela and others, and helped co-ordinate the party’s guerrilla campaigns.
“Though the pen gun could not kill, it would badly injure a would-be assassin,” said Virtual Nation Builders, a blockchain company that tokenised the weapon.
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