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Mandela Capture Site in S. Africa to get upgrade

Xinhua, May 13, 2015 Adjust font size:

ndela Capture Site in S. Africa to get upgrade

Johannesburg, May 12 (Xinhua) – A multi-million dollar upgrade is set for the capture site of South Africa's former president Nelson Mandela, said the local government on Wednesday.

The site, in Howick, KwaZulu-Natal Province, is where Mandela was arrested by apartheid police on 5th of August 1962.

KwaZulu-Natal's Cooperative Governance MEC, Nomusa Dube-Ncube said that about 8.5 million dollars was set aside to rebuild the site, which would include various facilities, such as a centre for introducing the history of the late statesman.

"We are going to have a permanent museum that will have the entire historical context of South Africa's struggle, but also our former president Nelson Mandela as a statesman, a prisoner and an international icon," said Dube-Ncube.

"Another addition is the conference centre that will also work for anybody who wants to do conferencing there. We will have seminars there where people will be taught South African history," added him.

The first phase of the upgrade is expected to be completed at the end of this August. Endi