Jack Swart Collection
Swart, Jack
Prison conditions
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.
1988 to 2012
https://atom.nelsonmandela.org/za-com-nmap-2012-32
NMAP 2012/32
Originals retained by Jack Swart
afr
eng
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Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
Victor Verster Prison
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