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Jack Swart Collection

  • ZA COM NMAP 2012/32
  • Series
  • 1988 to 2012
Jack Swart was Mr Mandela's warder and chef from 7 Dec 1988 to 11 Feb 1990 at Victor Verster Prison. This collection includes notes by Mandela to Swart, correspondence, photographs, recipes and menus of the food Swart cooked for Mandela, and a manuscript of Swart's life story in Afrikaans. It includes a video clip of the drive from the Victor Verster House to the prison gates that Mandela would have taken on 11 Feb 1990 when he was released.

Swart, Jack

Newspaper clippings

Several newspaper clippings (articles, pictures, cartoons) about Mandela, some of which mention Swart.

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Jack Swart's life story

Photos, printed pages, and newspaper articles about and related to Jack Swart.

Swart, Jack

Mandela prison house notes

54 images of Mandela's daily meals, food lists, prescriptions for meals, telephone lists, inventories by room,

Swart, Jack