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Mandela’s Place

Mandelas Place Blue Plaque - Heritage Portal - 2012
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When Nelson Mandela first arrived in Johannesburg in 1941 from his birthplace in the Eastern Cape, he rented this room for a short while. At that time Mandela, now a global icon, was working as a clerk at a law firm in Johannesburg.

Plaque Location:
Gauteng
Johannesburg
Alexandra
Plaque Address:

46 Seventh Avenue, Alexandra

Plaque Category:
Apartheid
Homes
Mandela
People
Struggle Heritage
Struggle Heroes
Plaque Organisation:
City of Johannesburg

Photographs of Mandela's Place (The Heritage Portal)

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