Qunu

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  • Nelson Mandela was buried here in 2013
  • Rural village in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province where Mandela lived after his family moved from his birthplace of Mvezo.

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Childhood Days

Chapter 1 of the unpublished autobiography written on Robben Island in 1976, covering the period between his birth and his passage of rite into manhood.

Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla

AMO, 1995-1996, South Africa: [Set of 13 Images]

Photographs of Nelson Mandela engaging in diffferent activities, including:
Nelson Mandela greeting children in his hometown, Qunu, Christmas Day, 1995. Signing the constitution of the Republic of South Africa, Sharpeville, 10 December 1996, with (from right) Cyril Ramaphosa and mayor of the Lekoa-Vaal Metropolitan Council, Yunus Chamda. At Libertas, the presidential residence in Pretoria, which Nelson Mandela renamed Mahlamba Ndlopfu, meaning. ‘The New Dawn’ in Xitsonga or, literally, ‘the washing of the elephants’.

AMO

Louise Gubb, 1990s: [Set of 10 Images]

-Photos of Nelson Mandela with his grandson Bambatha in Qunu, 1990.
-Nelson Mandela visiting Kwa Ndebele, March 1994
-Nelson Mandela visiting schools, January 1995
-Nelson Mandela visiting Victor Vester Prison which is now known as Drakenstein Correctional Centre.October 1996 at Paarl, South Africa.
-Nelson Mandela visiting pre-schools and crèches on the Cape Flats, Cape Town, South Africa, June 1997
-Annual Gold Award Ceremony of the President’s Award, South Africa, 25 November 1994 Birthday celebrations, July 1997; At the opening of Cape Town SOS Children’s Village, Cape Town, South Africa, 25 May 1996 Birthday celebrations, July 1997.

Gubb, Louise

E1F1 food distribution by the NMF in partnership with Imbumba Foundation and Kaizer Motaung Foundation in Qunu and Mvezo, 2020.05.20: [Set of 238 Still images]

Nelson Mandela Foundation in partnership with Imbumba Foundation and Kaizer Motaung Foundation sorting and distributing food parcels to needy community members in Qunu and Mvezo. With the help of Mandla Mandela, the tribal chief of the Mvezo Traditional Council and the grandson of icon Nelson Mandela, Executive Officer of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, Sello Hatang, together with Siya Kolisi, Kaizer Motaung Junior, Richard Mabaso, Yase Godlo and the volunteers.

Distilled Photography

Nelson Mandela's funeral, 2013.12, South Africa: [Compile]

Nelson Mandela's funeral: Security force convoy accompanied by an aircraft to the Union building where Nelson Mandela's coffin lies in state, where his family and members of the public pay last respect. Nelson Mandela memorial service was held at the Johannesburg Soccer City stadium and proceedings of his funeral were in Qunu where he was laid to rest.

South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC)

Remembering Qunu [30CFs4Np79k]

While he was born in the Eastern Cape village of Mvezo, the only son of his father’s third wife, Nelson Mandela spend most of his early childhood in Qunu and later moved to Mqhekezweni after his father died. He has always enjoyed returning to Qunu where he built a house after his release from prison in 1990. Uppermost in his mind as a free man was to visit Qunu where his parents were laid to rest. His mother Nosekeni had died in her Seventies in 1968 when her son was imprisoned on Robben Island. As soon as he could, he visited her grave and that of his father Nkosi (Chief) Mphakanyiswa who had died when he was a boy.

Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla