The department of sport, arts and culture (DSAC) has revealed that it withdrew funding for the Liliesleaf Farm museum after its managers could not account for an R8.1m donation. The ministry said in a ...
On July 11, 1963, a dry cleaner’s van crept down the curving dirt road to Liliesleaf Farm, where Nelson Mandela once lived. Inside a thatched-roof cottage, leaders of the armed wing of the banned ...
Liliesleaf Farm was purchased by the Communist Party in August 1961, through Navian (Pty) Ltd, a front company for the party, as the secret meeting place for its leadership. Over time it evolved into ...
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — Anti-apartheid activist Denis Goldberg spent his last day of freedom for 22 years on Liliesleaf Farm, a 28-acre swath of land in northern Johannesburg where African ...
In 1961 a "gardener" by the name of David Motsamayi started working on Liliesleaf farm for a white man called Arthur Goldreich. This was the way of things at the time. But what made this particular ...
This farm was the ANC's secret headquarters where Nelson Mandela, under the alias of David Motsamayi, worked as a cook and a gardener. Here he and other struggle heroes met to discuss overthrowing the ...
Liliesleaf Farm in Rivionia, north of Johannesburg, will reopen in June 2008 for people wanting to tour the former secret headquarters of the African National Congress’s Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), a ...
Liliesleaf Farm is located in the Johannesburg suburb of Rivonia, South Africa. It was bought as a safehouse for anti-apartheid activists in the 1960s and is now a museum. Nelson Mandela was among ...
Almost exactly a year ago I had gone to Johannesburg, South Africa, to deliver, for the year 2016, the Harold Wolpe Memorial Lecture organized annually under the auspices of the University of the ...
“Freedom did not fall from the sky, but was fought for with blood, sweat and tears.” This quote attributed to Ahmed Kathrada was read out by Busisiwe Nkosi who is part of the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation ...
From tomorrow (18 March), the iconic Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia will close its doors for one month due to the outbreak of COVID-19. Liliesleaf Farm has been marked a heritage site for fellow South ...
Teacher in charge of social action Lauren Winckelmann is assisted by Tembinkosi Ncube to trim hedges. Photo: Supplied One of the foremost national heritage sites in our country – Liliesleaf, situated ...
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