National Monuments of Genadendal
On 6 September 1957, only two structures at Genadendal had been declared as National Monuments. They were the Old Beinbrecht Bridge (1819) and the Old Church Belfry (1793).
In 1980, the National Monuments Council acknowledged the national importance of the Mission Complex at Genadendal with its 25 structures and consequently declared the whole site as National Monument. Today, though of national significance and the most authentic Church Square in the Republic of South Africa, it is referred to by the South African Heritage Agency as a Provincial Heritage Site. Look at the video and judge for yourself.
When the Genadendal Mission Museum was established in 1987, it undertook the restoration of most of these buildings, thanks to the visionary Chairman and former President of the Moravian Church in South Africa, the late Rev. Martin Jack Reginald Wessels. Among the sponsors who joined hands with the Museum were Sanlam, the Roland and Leta Trust, the Drie-Eeue Stigting, the Latrobe Foundation, The Dr. Hedrien Lampbrecths Trust, Tiger Oats Milling Co, Anglo America Chairman’s Fund, Sun International, and many more.
Watch also the follow-up Youtube Video: ‘From Degradation to Restoration’.
GENADENDAL: FROM DEGRADATION TO RESTORATION
While the need to preserve our cultural heritage is widely recognized, the availability of financial resources to do so is often deficient.
To alleviate the financial challenge of restoration/ conservation (for the the owner, the Moravian Church) the Genadendal Mission Museum, under the Chairmanship of the late Rev. Martin Wessels decided in 1987 on the initiative: 'Adopt the Heritage Site’ and spread awareness around about these monuments and their importance. The curator was given the task of public relations officer. Planning publicity strategies and campaigns. writing and producing presentations and press releases were not easy. State departments always told him that due to the country’s economic crisis, the budgetary allocations for culture in general and heritage conservation in particular had been reduced.
Though the South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA) is the overseeing statutory organisation established under the National Heritage Resources Act, No 25 of 1999, as the national administrative body responsible for the protection of South Africa’s cultural heritage, no financial assistance to preserve the declared monuments at Genadendal were given.
To gain private funding sources was just as difficult, but with Solomon’s wisdom and God’s intervention the museum could find friends and financial institutions who bought the initiative, “Adopt a monument” and who were willing to assist us to ensure that our monuments are kept for posterity. The video declares who the benefactors were. However, it is also the responsibility of the owners to address at least the basic maintenance work on their restored buildings.
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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (; Xhosa: [xoliɬaˈɬa manˈdɛla]; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by tackling institutionalised racism and fostering racial reconciliation. Ideologically an African nationalist and socialist, he served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) party from 1991 to 1997.
A Xhosa, Mandela was born to the Thembu royal family in Mvezo, British South Africa. He studied law at the University of Fort Hare and the University of the Witwatersrand before working as a lawyer in Johannesburg. There he became involved in anti-colonial and African nationalist politics, joining the ANC in 1943 and co-founding its Youth League in 1944. After the National Party's white-only government established apartheid, a system of racial segregation that privileged whites, he and the ANC committed themselves to its overthrow. Mandela was appointed President of the ANC's Transvaal branch, rising to prominence for his involvement in the 1952 Defiance Campaign and the 1955 Congress of the People. He was repeatedly arrested for seditious activities and was unsuccessfully prosecuted in the 1956 Treason Trial. Influenced by Marxism, he secretly joined the banned South African Communist Party (SACP). Although initially committed to non-violent protest, in association with the SACP he co-founded the militant Umkhonto we Sizwe in 1961 and led a sabotage campaign against the government. He was arrested and imprisoned in 1962, and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment for conspiring to overthrow the state following the Rivonia Trial.
Mandela served 27 years in prison, split between Robben Island, Pollsmoor Prison, and Victor Verster Prison. Amid growing domestic and international pressure, and with fears of a racial civil war, President F. W. de Klerk released him in 1990. Mandela and de Klerk led efforts to negotiate an end to apartheid, which resulted in the 1994 multiracial general election in which Mandela led the ANC to victory and became President. Leading a broad coalition government which promulgated a new constitution, Mandela emphasised reconciliation between the country's racial groups and created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate past human rights abuses. Economically, Mandela's administration retained its predecessor's liberal framework despite his own socialist beliefs, also introducing measures to encourage land reform, combat poverty, and expand healthcare services. Internationally, he acted as mediator in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial and served as Secretary-General of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1998 to 1999. He declined a second presidential term, and in 1999 was succeeded by his deputy, Thabo Mbeki. Mandela became an elder statesman and focused on combating poverty and HIV/AIDS through the charitable Nelson Mandela Foundation.
Mandela was a controversial figure for much of his life. Although critics on the right denounced him as a communist terrorist and those on the radical left deemed him too eager to negotiate and reconcile with apartheid's supporters, he gained international acclaim for his activism. Widely regarded as an icon of democracy and social justice, he received more than 250 honours—including the Nobel Peace Prize—and became the subject of a cult of personality. He is held in deep respect within South Africa, where he is often referred to by his Xhosa clan name, Madiba, and described as the Father of the Nation.
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