This year, former President Nelson Mandela celebrated his 95th birthday and although this man has had a really tough couple of months in terms of his health, he continues to be a big inspiration to so many of us in South Africa and around the world.
Cape Town has a special relationship with Madiba. It was this city that he would look towards during his 18 years as a prisoner on Robben Island, and it was on the steps of our City Hall that he delivered his first speech to the world on the day of his release. It’s very symbolic that a city has two such distinct views with both Apartheid AND freedom being represented so strongly. This is what strengthens us and why it is so fitting that we are the Cape of Good HOPE. So it’s only apt that we host an exhibition of Madiba’s relationship with our city, focusing not only only his time in prison, but more importantly highlighting many of the personal moments he shared with Capetonians and international celebrities under the shadow of Table Mountain as a free man and our beloved president. Continue reading
Views of the City 