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Human Rights, Liberation and Reconciliation: Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites
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How it came to be
Fourteen component parts spread over four provinces and seven municipalities of South Africa record the liberation struggle of the 20th century. Apartheid was set in law after the Second World War and dismantled in the early 1990s.
At Sharpeville, 69 people protesting the unjust pass laws were killed. Liliesleaf in Johannesburg was a secret refuge for activists. Police raided it in 1963, and at the Rivonia Trial of 1964 the leaders were sentenced to life for sabotage. The Great Place at Mqhekezweni is where Nelson Mandela lived as a young man.
Ubuntu, the idea that humanity does not rest in the individual alone, was written into the epilogue of the 1993 interim constitution, which speaks of a need for ubuntu and not for victimisation. In 1994 the first democratically elected president was inaugurated at the Union Buildings. The sites were inscribed in July 2024 at the 46th session of the World Heritage Committee in New Delhi.
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