Trippin With Angie: Nelson Mandela House
The Nelson Mandela house is a very small, unassuming home located in Soweto, Johannesburg. It is a journey through President Mandela’s story, both in the context of his home, and in the context of his life as a whole, in a manner that promotes human rights, democracy, reconciliation, mutual respect and tolerance amongst the peoples of South Africa.
The house itself was identical to hundreds of others built on postage-stamp-size plots on dirt roads. It had the same standard tin roof, the same cement floor, a narrow kitchen, and a bucket toilet at the back. Although there were street lamps outside we used paraffin lamps as the homes were not yet electrified. The bedroom was so small that a double bed took up almost the entire floor space. It was the opposite of grand, but it was my first true home of my own and I was mightily proud. A man is not a man until he has a house of his own.’ ~Nelson Mandela, The Long Walk to Freedom
Mandela lived in this house for 14 years with both his first wife and children and then with his second wife and their children before being forced to leave and go underground due to his emergence as a powerful anti-apartheid government leader and the target that put on him, his family and his home. Mandela's family and house was attacked numerous times. It still bears multiple bullet holes from those attacks and there were also multiple attempts to set the home on fire.
While imprisoned Mandela yearned to go back home and per his own writings the hope to return back to this home with his family was one of the things that allowed him to mentally survive his 27 years of torturous imprisonment.
That night I returned with Winnie to No. 8115 in Orlando West. It was only then that I knew in my heart I had left prison. For me No. 8115 was the centre point of my world, the place marked with an X in my mental geography.
Unfortunately after winning the fight against the apartheid government and being release from prison on February 11, 1990 Mandela only lived in his beloved home for 11 days before being forced to move due to his overwhelming notoriety and lack of privacy for his family.
Visiting this museum was a once in a lifetime experience. As you walk around and you read all the documents and see all the mementos you can feel the power and purity of Mandela's spirit and the importance and impact that he made on this world. It is astonishing to see the power of one man, one leader, to inspire a generation and sacrifice himself for a movement that was greater than him. For the betterment of the lives of others. His efforts, along with the efforts of the other freedom fighters of his time led to a monumental change and the betterment of the lives of not just South Africans but really the entire world.
It truly was my honor to learn more about this extraordinary man. To be able to stand in the same place where he once called home and absorb the magnitude of his spirit and accomplishments felt like a special treat ❤????
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Preparations ahead of Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday
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1. Wide of Transkei countryside with the village of Qunu in the distance
2. Wide of school children walking down the road
3. Wide of Nelson Mandela's house
4. Main entrance to Mandela's house
5. Workmen clearing rocks from outside the house
6. SOUNDBITE (English): Vox pop, Zintle, local resident:
If we would have one wish, we would wish that he stays until he's 100 and if all the children in South Africa would have one father, it would definitely be him.
7. SOUNDBITE (English): Vox pop, Thandokazi Ndzeki, local resident:
I want to say happy birthday to Dadda Madiba. We love him very much.
8. Wide of Mandela's house
STORYLINE:
Final preparations were underway on Friday for celebrations marking former South African President, Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday.
The Nobel laureate and anti-apartheid icon this year chose to spend his birthday at home in Qunu with his family -- rather than in Johannesburg or Pretoria -- and the entire village is celebrating.
Mandela's homestead in the picturesque Transkei, includes some of the only green fields visible for miles and stretches from the main national highway down to a large dam with a small herd of cattle grazing.
School children in Qunu have been busy putting the finishing touches on a performance to mark their hero's big day.
If we would have one wish, we would wish that he stays until he's 100 and if all the children in South Africa would have one father, it would definitely be him, said school student, Zintle.
Mandela is regarded as a symbol of freedom and equality in South Africa after he spent 27 years in prison, much of it on Robben Island, on convictions for crimes that included sabotage committed while he spearheaded the struggle against apartheid.
He is also South Africa's most famous and revered elder statesman known by many as Mandiba which is an honourary title adopted by Mandela's clan but one which has also become synonymous with the former President.
I want to say happy birthday to Dadda Madiba. We love him very much, said school girl, Thandokazi Ndzeki.
Mandela's birthday on the 18 July is an annual time for celebration in South Africa and draws attention from his many local and international admirers.
This year's event was supposed to have been a quiet affair, but there are now a variety of festivities planned in Mandela's honour including a local soccer festival, a pop concert and a luncheon for 500 guests on Saturday.
Former South African President F.W. de Klerk paid tribute to Mandela on Thursday saying he was born to be a leader.
Mandela was awarded the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with de Klerk for peacefully ending the apartheid segregation system and bringing the vote to all South Africans.
Mandela easily won the nation's first universal suffrage election in 1993 and became South Africa's first black president.
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Lufhereng Project - Soweto Housing Initiative
It was Nelson Mandela who once said, it always seems impossible until it’s done.
And this is exactly how the residence of greater Soweto felt facing an impossible struggle with home ownership, housing and service delivery backlogs on a daily basis.
Until, The City of Johannesburg and the Gauteng Department of Human settlements formed a strong partnership to conceive the much needed Lufhereng project.
Lufhereng. Where dreams take root.
The name “Lufhereng” was derived from the Tshi'Venda and Sotho words, 'lufhera' and 'reng', which were combined to refer to a place where people come together with a single, united purpose.
The Lufhereng project, is a long-term, large scale plan for mixed income, mixed type of tenure housing development that will enhance the quality of so many people’s lives, and change the face of Soweto for the better. This will deliver on 25 000 housing opportunities for the residents of Greater Soweto. Giving them a long-term, sustainable housing solution.
The Lufhereng Mixed Housing Development is located immediately West of Soweto, to the north of Protea Glen and South of Slovoville. The project forms the only remaining Western extension of Soweto.
The Lufhereng development was planned to physically, economically and socially integrate with Soweto.
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Mandela in hospital for 'checkup;' hospital, home, papers, vox pops
Pretoria
1. Wide exterior of Mediclinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria where it is believed that former South African president Nelson Mandela spent Saturday night and is receiving treatment
2. Close of sign outside hospital
3. Mid of hospital showing windows
4. Exterior of hospital
Johannesburg
5. Wide of Nelson Mandela's house in the suburb of Houghton, Johannesburg
6. Close of house with window and security camera
7. People walking past Mandela's house
8. Wide of house
Soweto
9. Wide of selection of newspapers lying on ground
10. Close of newspaper article with headline reading: (English) Madiba in hospital for a check-up
11. Close newspaper headline reading: (English) Madiba in hospital
12. Wide exterior of Regina Mundi Catholic church in Soweto
13. Close of sign outside church
14. Mid of cross
15. Wide of congregation outside church at end of service
16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Thembeni Sebego, parishioner of Regina Mundi church:
He must get well because we need him. Although he's old, but, he's a real father to South Africa. We need him very, very, very much. But what can we do? If God calls him, it's time, because he's old now, he's old.
17. South African flag
18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Elvis Vusi, parishioner of Regina Mundi church:
No, he means a lot because he brought a lot of changes, a lot of changes here in South Africa and not only in South Africa, but the whole world. So we need all the leaders, if they can just follow in his footsteps so that each and everybody must live in a peaceful country.
19. Wide of Soweto street scene with women walking in front of murals depicting faces of Mandela
20. Various of mural of Mandela
STORYLINE:
Nelson Mandela has spent a night in hospital after been admitted for a scheduled medical check-up, but doctors say there is no cause for alarm, the South African president's office said.
South Africa's presidential spokesman said the former president and anti-apartheid leader went into hospital in Pretoria on Saturday afternoon for scheduled medical tests.
Mac Maharaj said there were no further updates on Mandela's condition, and there was little activity on Sunday morning outside the Mediclinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria where the 94-year-old was believed to undergoing the tests.
Meanwhile, outside Mandela's family home in Johannesburg, there was no activity to suggest a raised level of concern on the part of the Mandela family.
The morning's newspapers were running limited coverage of Mandela's hospitalisation, with only the weekly City Press newspaper running a headline Madiba in hospital - referring to Mandela's clan name Madiba.
Officials have used similarly soothing language to explain previous hospital stays for Mandela, but in those cases he later turned out to have more serious conditions.
Mandela was hospitalised for nearly three weeks in December before going home on December 26.
At that time, he was treated for a lung infection and had a surgical procedure to remove gallstones.
In January 2011, Mandela was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection.
He was discharged days later.
The intense privacy surrounding the health of Mandela reflects in part the official reverence for a man who is seen as one of the great, unifying figures of the 20th century for helping to avert race-driven chaos in South Africa's tense transition from apartheid to democracy.
At the Regina Mundi Catholic church in Soweto on Sunday, the former leader was in the thoughts of the congregation.
He must get well because we need him. Although he's old, but, he's a real father to South Africa. We need him very, very, very much, said parishioner Thembeni Sebego.
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Exteriors of Nelson Mandela's home after Mandela taken to hospital with lung infection
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1 Pan from street to exterior of Nelson Mandela's house
2. Wide of house
3. Mid of house
4. Wide of cars parked outside Mandela's house
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Obed Mokwana, 53, caretaker:
I'm so sorry. I'm sad. I don't know, what can I say? I just try to pray all the time. He must come very strong again.
6. Pan from street to Mandela's house
STORYLINE:
Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who became South Africa's first black president, has been admitted to a hospital with a recurring lung infection, South Africa said on Thursday.
Mandela, who's 94, has become increasingly frail in recent years and has been hospitalised several times since last year - mostly recently earlier this month when he received what a presidential spokesman described as a successful medical test.
Mandela was admitted to a hospital just before midnight on Wednesday due to the recurrence of his lung infection, the office of President Jacob Zuma said in a statement.
I'm so sorry. I'm sad. I don't know, what can I say? said Obed Mokwana, a 53-year-old caretaker from Houghton in Johannesburg, speaking outside Mandela's home.
I just try to pray all the time. He must come very strong again.
In December, Mandela spent three weeks in a hospital, where he was treated for a lung infection and had a procedure to remove gallstones.
A year ago, Mandela was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection.
He was discharged days later. He also had surgery for an enlarged prostate gland in 1985.
Under South Africa's white-minority apartheid regime, Mandela served 27 years in prison, where he contracted tuberculosis, before being released in 1990.
He later became the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 under the banner of the African National Congress, helping to negotiate
a relatively peaceful end to apartheid despite fears of much greater bloodshed.
He served one five-year term as president before retiring.
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Former President Nelson Mandela released from hospital, ambulance arrives at home
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Pretoria
1. Military ambulance believed to be carrying former South African President Nelson Mandela upon his discharge from hospital driving away from Mediclinic Heart Hospital
Johannesburg
2. Military ambulance believed to be carrying Mandela entering grounds of his Houghton residence; security vehicles outside residence
3. Media
4. Various of security vehicles outside Mandela's residence
Pretoria
3. Wide pan to Mediclinic Heart Hospital exterior
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Luvo Disane, 19, student, vox pop:
It's been too long. Him being out, I'm really happy about that.
8. Close sign reading (English): Mediclinic Heart Hospital
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Primrose Mashoma, domestic worker, vox pop
A long life. I wish him to stay maybe a hundred more years.
7. Close of vehicle belonging to Graca Machel, Mandela's wife, leaving hospital compound, with Machel conspicuously absent
STORYLINE
Former President Nelson Mandela was discharged from a hospital on Saturday after an improvement in his health following treatment for pneumonia, the South African presidency said.
The statement from the office of President Jacob Zuma said there had been a sustained and gradual improvement in the condition of 94-year-old Mandela, who was admitted to a hospital on the night of March 27.
The former President will now receive home-based high care, the statement said. Mandela had received similar treatment at his home in Johannesburg after a hospital stay in December.
During Mandela's hospitalisation, doctors drained fluid from his lung area, making it easier for him to breathe.
It was his third trip to a hospital since December, when he was treated during a three-week stay for a lung infection and had a procedure to remove gallstones.
Earlier in March, the anti-apartheid leader was hospitalised overnight for what authorities said was a successful scheduled medical test.
Mandela became South Africa's first black president in 1994 after elections were held, bringing an end to the system of white racist rule known as apartheid.
After his release from prison in 1990, Mandela was widely credited with averting even greater bloodshed by helping the country in the transition to democratic rule.
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate has been particularly vulnerable to respiratory problems since contracting tuberculosis during his 27-year imprisonment for fighting white racist rule in his country.
The elderly are especially vulnerable to pneumonia, which can be fatal.
Its symptoms include fever, chills, a cough, chest pain and shortness of breath.
South African officials have said doctors were acting with extreme caution because of Mandela's advanced age.
In Saturday's statement, Zuma thanked the medical team and hospital staff that looked after Mandela and expressed gratitude for South Africans and people around the world who had shown support for Mandela.
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SOUTH AFRICA: NELSON MANDELA LAUNCHES SMILE FUND
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Former South African president Nelson Mandela has announced the launch of a Smile Fund.
The initiative - sponsored by the Colgate-Palmolive company and The Star newspaper - is aimed at raising funds to help children affected by Moebius Syndrome.
Mandela already helped arrange funding for an eight-year-old girl who had corrective surgery for the condition, which causes facial paralysis.
Eight-year-old Thando suffers from a rare disorder called Moebius Syndrome, which paralysed her face.
She couldn't smile, eat or talk properly.
Unable to afford surgery, her mother appealed to former President Nelson Mandela for help.
Mandela delivered, and on Saturday, he visited the little girl at the Johannesburg General Hospital, where she is recovering from corrective surgery that will make her able to smile for the first time in her life.
The former president read the girl a fairy tale and kissed her forehead.
The nine-hour operation involved taking muscle, nerves, arteries and veins from Thando's leg and transplanting them to her face.
The surgeons operated only on the right side of her face.
A second operation on the left side is scheduled for May.
Two North American specialists - Dr Craig van der Kolk of the John Hopkins Medical Centre in Baltimore and Dr Ronald Zucker, who is the world's leading expert in this type of surgery - took part in the surgery.
They had flown to South Africa to operate on Thando free of charge in the General Hospital, which also provided its facilities free of charge.
South African surgeons George Psaras and Graeme Pitcher also helped in the surgery this week.
Mandela admitted helping Thando was one of his life's high points.
SOUNDBITE: In English
It's one of the happiest days in my life to see that such top experts could come to this country in order to help a little girl.
SUPER CAPTION: Nelson Mandela, Former President of South Africa
Dr Zucker - chief of the plastic surgery division at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children - predicted that Tuesday's nine-hour operation on Thando would be the first of many.
SOUNDBITE: In English
This is one little girl and if we can expand this into many children throughout this country it would be an even greater vision that Mr Mandela has supported.
SUPER CAPTION: Dr Ronald Zucker, Surgeon
Thando's mother, Thabile Manyathi, broke down in tears while trying to thank Mandela and the surgeons for their help.
As the tears streamed down her face, Mandela gave her a reassuring hug.
It is estimated that there are at least 100 children suffering from Moebius Syndrome in South Africa and about one in 300-thousand children worldwide.
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1994: Profile of Zulu nation in Natal
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South Africa Elections. Bernard Shaw in Johannesburg, South Africa, CNN LIVE. Casualty count from bombing is 9 dead, more than 100 injured. 200 pounds of explosives in car blew up near ANC HQ. no claims of responsibility. Mandela campaigned with a huge campaign in Natal, Durban. Buthelezi campaigned in Soweto, a Mandela stronghold.
Buthelezi is chief of Zulu tribe, largest ethnic group in South Africa, a leader of Kwa-Zulu. Brent Sadler looks at Natal, South Africa's Zulu nation. Zulu marriage celebration, drums, dancing, greater independence wanted by Zulu. Inkatha mistrusts ANC, fears post-election backlash. Dr. Vincent Zulu, KwaZulu Deputy Minister. Inkatha's thirst for more freedom appeals to many, but majority of Zulus side with ANC. Buthelezi's skillful brinkmanship is political insanity. Mangosuthu Buthelezi's led for 40 years, not about to roll over. Emergency law in Natal and ban on traditional weapons have no impact on the ground - Brent Sadler. Buthelezi, Inkatha election boycott, When the time comes. Inkatha can count on support from a minority of whites Martin and Elna Le Roux own a livestock farm outside Ulundi, and will fight among black Zulus for Kwa-Zulu independence.
Goodwill Zwelethini, Zulu King will rule as constitutional monarch with no political base. He wants to lead the living, not the dead. Zulu army defeated British 115 years ago here in Isandlwana. Stands as monument for defiance against overwhelming odds. Tour guide: greatest fear is that Zulus en masse would break through and wreak havoc in Natal. Sunset on three centuries of white domination.
Brent Sadler, CNN, Natal, back to Bernie in Jo'burg, for Jeanne Meserve in Washington.
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SOUTH AFRICA: HOUSING REMAINS A CRITICAL PROBLEM
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Housing remains one of the most critical problems facing the African National Congress under South Africa's new president, Thabo Mbeki.
At least 10 million people do not have formal housing and are forced to live in informal shelters or makeshift shacks.
As the country prepares to celebrate Mbeki's inauguration on June 16, APTN takes a look at the dire situation facing those citizens still living in poverty in South Africa's squatter camps despite five years of reconstruction efforts.
Since the historic election of 1994 which brought Nelson Mandela's African National Congress to power, three million people moved into new government-funded homes.
But the country is still scattered with squatter camps like this one in Milnerton.
While South Africa has come along way in the five years since apartheid ended, many black residents have seen only moderate improvements in their living situation.
Half of South African households lack flushing toilets and a third have no running water.
The number of South Africans in the country's 40-million strong population who have electricity is double today what it was in 1994.
But some residents in Milnerton, while glad they have a roof over their heads, complain that accommodation for their families remains very costly and cramped.
SOUNDBITE: (in English)
The house is too small and the rent is too much. But I feel for the government because I got a house. A long time I had to stay in the 'pausie' (local slang for 'shack'), but this is better because it is not raining (inside).
SUPER CAPTION: Tobeka Siyongwana, resident
Millions of people continue to live in abject poverty despite the five years of reconstruction and development by the government since 1994.
During its first five years in power, the African National Congress built and turned over title to about 680-thousand new homes that shelter about three million (m)people, or seven percent of the population.
That number fell short of the A-N-C goal of one million homes.
Many hope that with the ushering in of their new leader, Thabo Mbeki, they will see greater improvements in their standard of living.
Still, some residents feel that they have plenty to be thankful for already.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
We did live a long time without houses. The government did what it can sic do. They give us these houses. We can't feel unhappy. We just have to feel happy.
SUPER CAPTION: Vox pop, resident
Forty-two percent of the black work force cannot find formal jobs.
General unemployment stands at 33 percent.
A thriving informal sector of hawkers, repairmen and providers of other services helps ease the strain.
The government may have to rely on costly job corps programmes to offer young blacks training and menial work.
While Nelson Mandela's government made a positive start, many South Africans hope their children will face an even brighter future under the next.
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Johannesburg city of gold : Gauteng
Johannesburg (Afrikaans pronunciation: [joˈhɑnəsˌbʏrx]) also known as Jozi or Jo'burg, is the largest city in South Africa. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa. The city is one of the 40 largest metropolitan areas in the world[5] and it is one of Africa's only three global cities, the other two being Cairo and Cape Town.[6]. While Johannesburg is not officially one of South Africa's three capital cities, it does house the Constitutional Court South Africa's highest court.
Johannesburg is the source of a large-scale gold and diamond trade, due to its location on the mineral-rich Witwatersrand range of hills. Johannesburg is served by O.R. Tambo International Airport, the largest and busiest airport in Africa and a gateway for international air travel to and from the rest of southern Africa.
According to the 2007 Community Survey, the population of the municipal city was 3,888,180 and the population of the Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Area was 7,151,447. A broader definition of the Johannesburg metropolitan area, including the Ekhuruleni, the West Rand, Soweto and Lenasia, has a population of 10,267,700. The municipal city's land area of 1,645 km2 (635 sq mi) is very large when compared to other cities, resulting in a moderate population density of 2,364 /km2 (6,120 /sq mi).
Johannesburg once again includes Soweto, which was a separate city from the late 1970s until the 1990s. Originally an acronym for SOuth-WEstern TOwnships, Soweto originated as a collection of settlements on the outskirts of Johannesburg populated mostly by native African workers in the gold mining industry. Eventually incorporated into Johannesburg, the apartheid regime (in power 1949 - 1994) separated Soweto from the rest of Johannesburg to make it a completely Black area. Lenasia is also part of Johannesburg.
Gauteng is growing rapidly due to mass urbanisation which is a feature of many developing countries. According to the State of the Cities Report, the urban portion of Gauteng comprised primarily of the cities of Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni (the East Rand) and Tshwane (greater Pretoria) will be a polycentric urban region with a projected population of some 14.6 million people by 2015, [7].
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Reactions from Soweto neighbourhood as Mandela reportedly makes progress
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1. Pan from sign reading (English) Vilakazi Street to street where former President Nelson Mandela used to live
2. Pan from sign reading (English) Mandela House to the house where Mandela used to live, now a tourist attraction
3. Entrance to Mandela House with tourists walking through
4. Pan from sign reading (English) Vilakazi Street to Mandela House entrance
5. Wide of street vendor selling an African National Congress t-shirt with Mandela's portrait
6. Close-up of African National Congress t-shirt with Mandela's portrait
7. Close t-shirt with cartoon of Mandela, pull out
8. Pan from souvenirs to street vendor
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Vox pop, Kazempe Tambala, street vendor:
Here in Soweto, we still need him. Because here in Soweto, he's still our hero. So if he's going to die like that, that will be not good. But we're going to be fine. We'll be all right. We wish him all the best. Get well soon Mandela! We still love you here in Soweto.
10. Vendor laying souvenirs on table
11. Wide exterior of Mandela Family Restaurant
12. Woman sweeping
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Vox pop, Elvis Buthelezi, call centre agent:
He's very important to the street, to Vilakazi Street. His first house was here in Vilakazi Street. When he came from Qunu, from Eastern Cape, he came straight to this house here in Vilakazi Street.
14. Wide exterior of Mandela Family Restaurant
15. Two people drinking beer
16. Pan from street to Mandela House
STORYLINE
Tourists continued to visit the Soweto house of Nelson Mandela on Saturday, as the former South African president spent a third day in a hospital for treatment of a lung infection.
South Africans were worried about the health of their former president.
Here in Soweto, we still need him. Because here in Soweto, he's still our hero, said street vendor Kazempe Tambala.
The Presidency said the elder statesman was responding very well to treatment.
The 94-year-old used to live on the corner of Vilakazi and Ngakane streets in Soweto, an acronym for Southwestern Township, on the periphery of Johannesburg.
It is the largest black residential area in South Africa, a product of the apartheid government's policy of segregation.
Call centre agent Elvis Buthelezi said Mandela was very important to Vilakazi Street.
When he came from Qunu, from Eastern Cape, he came straight to this house here in Vilakazi Street.
Mandela, who remained under observation after a second night in hospital, is in hospital for the third time in four months and is being treated for a chronic lung infection.
Doctors are said to be acting with extreme caution because of the advanced age of the anti-apartheid leader.
He was admitted just before midnight on Thursday to an unspecified hospital in Pretoria, where he remains under observation.
Mandela, who became South Africa's first black president in 1994, is a revered figure in his homeland.
He has been particularly vulnerable to respiratory problems since contracting tuberculosis during his 27-year imprisonment for fighting white racist rule in his country.
The apartheid government released Mandela in 1990.
Four years later, he became the nation's first democratically elected president under the banner of the African National Congress (ANC), helping to negotiate a relatively peaceful end to apartheid despite fears of much greater bloodshed.
He served one five-year term as president before retiring.
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Eastgate Shopping Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa
Food court and plaza of the Estgate Shopping Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa. October 2011
wiki - Eastgate was Johannesburgs first 'super-regional' shopping centre. When it opened in 1979, it was the largest shopping centre in the southern hemisphere. It remains one of the largest centres in the country, and is the second-largest shopping centre in the Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Area, after Sandton City The centre lies next to the R24 airport freeway, between the Johannesburg CBD and Johannesburg International Airport. Stores include Woolworths, Edgars, Checkers Hyper, Ster-Kinekor cinemas, Dion and Stuttafords. A R300 Million expansion was completed in 2010, which brings Eastgate to 122 000m². It is owned and developed by Liberty Life. It is managed by Liberty Properties, on behalf of the parent company Liberty Life.
Eastgate Shopping Centre is frequented by over 80 000 shoppers on Saturdays, over 2 million shoppers a month.
Eastgate Shopping Centre offers Bureau de change facilities. Major retailers include one of the most successful Woolworths in South Africa. The centre's 250 stores include over 60 fashion boutiques and 13 jewellers.
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CHINA: BEIJING: SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT MANDELA VISIT
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Nelson Mandela, South Africa's President has arrived in China.
Mandela was greeted at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing by the Chinese President Jiang Zemin.
His three-day visit marks the first official visit to China by a top South African leader - although it is not Mandela's first trip to the country.
South African President, Nelson Mandela was greeted by his Chinese counterpart, Jiang Zemin in the country's capital, Beijing.
A welcoming ceremony was held at the Great Hall of the People.
He was accompanied by Foreign Minister Alfred Nzo and other senior government officials.
Mandela last visited China in 1992, when he was president of the African National Congress but this is his first visit as President.
China was a supporter of the anti-apartheid movement.
Nevertheless, South Africa retained its long-standing ties with Taiwan until last year, when it established them with Beijing.
China demands its diplomatic partners only have unofficial ties with Taiwan, an island Beijing regards as a renegade province that must be reunified politically with the Chinese mainland.
Jiang Zemin and Mandela planned to discuss promoting trade and investment.
South Africa's trade with China and Hong Kong amounted to more than 3 (b) billion dollars in 1998.
On Thursday, Mandela is due to meet Premier Zhu Rongji and Li Peng, chairman of the National People's Congress, China's legislature.
He will also give a speech at Peking University, one of China's most prestigious schools.
Mandela arrived from Islamabad, where he appealed during a one-day visit Tuesday for a nuclear-free South Asia.
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SOWETO TOUR - South Western Townships tour - Johannesburg, South Africa
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The establishment of Soweto is, like Johannesburg, linked directly to the discovery of Gold in 1885. Thousands of people from around the world and South Africa flocked to the new town to seek their fortunes or to offer their labour. Within 4 years Johannesburg was the second largest city. More than half the population was black, most living in multi racial shanty towns near the gold mines in the centre of the town. As the gold mining industry developed, so did the need for labour increase. Migrant labour was started and most of these workers lived in mine compounds. However other workers had to find their own accommodation often in appalling conditions.
The first residents of what is now known as Soweto were located into the area called Klipspriut in 1905 following their relocation from “Coolietown” in the centre of Johannesburg as a result of an outbreak of bubonic plague. The Johannesburg City Council took the opportunity to establish racially segregated residential areas. Some residents were to be relocated to Alexandra township (near the present day Sandton). This group comprised black, Indian and coloured families and they received freehold title to their land (this was subsequently reversed by the Apartheid Government). Only black families were located into Klipspruit and the housing was on a rental basis. Klipspruit was subsequently renamed Pimville.
During the 1930’s the demand for housing for the large numbers of black people who had moved into Johannesburg grew to such an extent that new housing was built in an area known as Orlando, named after the first administrator Edwin Orlando Leaky.
In the 1940’s James Mpanza led the first land invasion and some 20000 squatters occupied land near Orlando. James Mpanza is known as the “Father of Soweto”.
A view of Soweto from the top of the Oppenheimer towerIn 1959 the residents of Sophiatown were forcibly removed to Soweto and occupied the area known as Meadowlands. Sir Earnest Oppenheimer, the first chairman of the Anglo American Corporation, was appalled by the housing shortage and was instrumental in arranging a loan for the construction of additional housing and this is commemorated by the Oppenheimer Tower in Jabulani. #soweto #johannesburg #southafrica
Winnie Mandela leaves hospital, children leave tribute to ailing ex-president, Soweto reax
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Pretoria - 24 June 2013
1. Wide of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, ex-wife of former president Nelson Mandela, and their daughter Zindzi Mandela walking to car outside hospital; Winnie waves to media (shot obscured by bus)
2. Wide of car carrying Winnie and Zindzi waiting to drive away from hospital
3. Various of car carrying Winnie and Zindzi driving away
4. Police car parked at side of road with blue lights on
5. Police officers standing at hospital entrance
6. Wide of doctor who is treating Mandela walking to hospital building (man wearing glasses)
7. Media and cameras outside hospital
8. Car driven by Ndileka, Mandela's granddaughter, leaving hospital
Johannesburg - 24 June 2013
9. Family writing messages of support for Mandela, pull out to wide group of schoolchildren with their mothers, joining them to do same
10. Close of girl writing on tribute stone
11. Families gathered around tribute on grassy verge outside Mandela's Johannesburg residence
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Caroline Kffaler, mother:
It's very emotional, and I feel for my children. This is very important for them to feel what an amazing man Madiba was and is to all of us. And we just wish him well and him to be just okay. And we love him very much.
13. Wide of children on grassy verge
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jaimie Baden, 12, school pupil:
We've just come to pray for Mandela, so he gets well soon.
15. Family kneeling next to flowerbed filled with tribute stones
16. Close-up of little girl writing on tribute stone with marker pen
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Hannah Riedel, 12, school pupil:
That he can come back to this beautiful nation and help us again.
18. Family gathered around tribute
19. Little girl running across to tribute, laying flower down
Soweto - 24 June 2013
20. Mid of painted mural in Soweto's Freedom Square of Mandela as a young man, pan to text on wall reading (English): Freedom Charter and portrait of fellow struggle activist Walter Sisulu
21. Wide of mural
22. Wide of monument commemorating signing of South Africa's Freedom Charter (document stating core human-rights principles used as point of reference in struggle against apartheid)
23. Pan of monument interior
23. Mid of text engraved in monument reading (English): All shall enjoy equal human rights
24. Close of text engraved in monument reading (English): The people shall govern
25. Close text engraved in monument reading (English): All national groups shall have equal rights
26. People at open air market in Freedom Square
27. SOUNDBITE: (English) Samantha Dlamini, 32, street vendor:
But it's a good place to remember him, as there is the Freedom Charter and all this stuff. Of course, it's a good place. And there's more development because people now are free to do anything. He made the freedom for everybody. Now people can sell, having some open markets, freely. Doing their business, self-employed and making their business and profits. That's good.
28. Mid people buying secondhand clothing in market
29. Wide of monument exterior
STORYLINE:
Nelson Mandela's family have begun to leave a Pretoria hospital after spending the greater part of Monday with the former president, who is in a critical condition.
His ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was seen visiting him, accompanied by their daughter Zindzi Mandela.
Mandela, who became South Africa's first black president after the end of apartheid in 1994, was taken to hospital for what the government said was a recurring lung infection.
This is his fourth hospitalisation since December.
Mandela was jailed for 27 years under white racist rule and was released 23 years ago, in 1990.
It's very emotional, and I feel for my children, said one woman.
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