Exhibition | Nelson Mandela From Prisoner to President It was the dying wish of Mandela’s father that his son should go and live with his kinsman, Jongintaba, the regent of Thembuland. It was here that Mandela attended the initiation school where his circumcision ceremony took place on the banks of the Mbashe River. After the initiation ceremony, Chief Meligqili spoke to the young men: “There sit our sons … young, healthy and handsome, the flower of the Xhosa tribe, the pride of our nation. We h

Exhibition | Nelson Mandela From Prisoner to President This is the original audio of the closing remarks of Mandela’s famous ‘Speech from the Dock’ at the end of the Rivonia Trial in July 1964, when Mandela and seven other co-accused were sentenced to life imprisonment. The judge said that he did not have to give them the death sentence. But that was the only mercy he could show. See Winnie Mandela making her way through the crowds outside the Palace of Justice in Pretoria with their young child