ANAPIX: Freedom Day Heroes
Freedom Day is a public holiday in South Africa celebrated on 27 April. It celebrates freedom and commemorates the first post-apartheid elections held on that day in 1994
Cape Town, April 23(ANA) The Long March to Freedom exhibition in Century City is a collection of 100 life-size figures that will grow into a procession of over 400 bronze statues over time. Visitors can walk through the loosely spaced procession, beginning in the 1700s with rebel chiefs and renegade missionaries, along generations of freedom fighters, until they meet Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela at the dawn of South Africa’s democracy.
1/20: South Africa – Cape Town – 15 April 2021 – Olof Palme, more than any other international head of state, came to represent international solidarity with the struggle against Apartheid in South Africa. He pledged his nations support to the countrys liberation movement and held the international community accountable for their lack of action regarding the countrys racist regime. The Long March to Freedom exhibition at Century City is a collection of 100 life-size figures that will grow into a procession of over 400 bronze statues over time. Visitors can walk through the loosely spaced procession, beginning in the 1700s with rebel chiefs and renegade missionaries, along generations of freedom fighters, until they meet Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela at the dawn of South Africas democracy. Picture Henk Kruger/African News Agency(ANA)(ANATopixfreedom)
2/20: South Africa – Cape Town – 15 April 2021 – Joe Slovo with Ruth First. Ruth First was a renowned activist whose bold and insightful writings exposed the horrors of Apartheid and the evils of the racist regime. The Long March to Freedom exhibition at Century City is a collection of 100 life-size figures that will grow into a procession of over 400 bronze statues over time. Visitors can walk through the loosely spaced procession, beginning in the 1700s with rebel chiefs and renegade missionaries, along generations of freedom fighters, until they meet Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela at the dawn of South Africas democracy. Picture Henk Kruger/African News Agency(ANA)(ANATopixfreedom)
3/20: South Africa – Cape Town – 15 April 2021 – Steve Biko was the Co-Founder and President of the South African Students Organisation, Co-Founder of the Black People’s Convention and leader of the Black Consciousness Movement. Born in King Williams Town in the Eastern Cape, Biko enrolled at the University of Natal’s medical school, Wentworth, after matriculating in Durban in 1965. As his college was affiliated to the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), he became active in it but resigned in 1969 with a substantial body of black students who felt that NUSAS did not represent the needs of black students. During the same year he was elected president of the black South African Students Organisation (SASO), co-founded by him the previous year. Thus was the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) bornThe Long March to Freedom exhibition at Century City is a collection of 100 life-size figures that will grow into a procession of over 400 bronze statues over time. Visitors can walk through the loosely spaced procession, beginning in the 1700s with rebel chiefs and renegade missionaries, along generations of freedom fighters, until they meet Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela at the dawn of South Africas democracy. Picture Henk Kruger/African News Agency(ANA)(ANATopixfreedom)
4/20: South Africa – Cape Town – 15 April 2021 – Basil D’Oliveira, affectionately known as Dolly, was a South African cricketer who fundamentally influenced the course of international cricket and turned worldwide opinion against Apartheid through sport. The Long March to Freedom exhibition at Century City is a collection of 100 life-size figures that will grow into a procession of over 400 bronze statues over time. Visitors can walk through the loosely spaced procession, beginning in the 1700s with rebel chiefs and renegade missionaries, along generations of freedom fighters, until they meet Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela at the dawn of South Africas democracy. Picture Henk Kruger/African News Agency(ANA)(ANATopixfreedom)
5/20: South Africa – Cape Town – 15 April 2021 – Helen Suzman fought in the Apartheid corridors of power during four decades of a very public political career, defending the rule of law and challenging the racist regime from within. Hers was often the lone voice in South Africas Whites-only Parliament. The Long March to Freedom exhibition at Century City is a collection of 100 life-size figures that will grow into a procession of over 400 bronze statues over time. Visitors can walk through the loosely spaced procession, beginning in the 1700s with rebel chiefs and renegade missionaries, along generations of freedom fighters, until they meet Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela at the dawn of South Africas democracy. Picture Henk Kruger/African News Agency(ANA)(ANATopixfreedom)
6/20: South Africa – Cape Town – 15 April 2021 – Chris Hani was the Deputy Commander and Commissar of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK)and General Secretary of the South African Communist Party (SACP). Chris Hani was a loved and respected commander of MK, armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), and a high-ranking ANC and SACP leader during South Africas transition to democracy in the early 1990s. His charismatic leadership united radical and moderate factions in the liberation movement and disarmed even his fiercest critics. The Long March to Freedom exhibition at Century City is a collection of 100 life-size figures that will grow into a procession of over 400 bronze statues over time. Visitors can walk through the loosely spaced procession, beginning in the 1700s with rebel chiefs and renegade missionaries, along generations of freedom fighters, until they meet Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela at the dawn of South Africas democracy. Picture Henk Kruger/African News Agency(ANA)(ANATopixfreedom)
7/20: South Africa – Cape Town – 15 April 2021 – Nelson Mandela with his wife Winnie Mandela. Nelson Mandela was South Africas first democratically elected President, President of the ANC Youth League, President of the ANC and Nobel Peace Prize winner. The Long March to Freedom exhibition at Century City is a collection of 100 life-size figures that will grow into a procession of over 400 bronze statues over time. Visitors can walk through the loosely spaced procession, beginning in the 1700s with rebel chiefs and renegade missionaries, along generations of freedom fighters, until they meet Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela at the dawn of South Africas democracy. Picture Henk Kruger/African News Agency(ANA)(ANATopixfreedom)
8/20: South Africa – Cape Town – 15 April 2021 – Oliver Reginald Tambo and his wife Adelaide Tambo. Oliver Tambo was the Co-founder of the ANC Youth League, Secretary General and Deputy President of the ANC, longest-serving President of the ANC and Chairman of the ANC. The Long March to Freedom exhibition at Century City is a collection of 100 life-size figures that will grow into a procession of over 400 bronze statues over time. Visitors can walk through the loosely spaced procession, beginning in the 1700s with rebel chiefs and renegade missionaries, along generations of freedom fighters, until they meet Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela at the dawn of South Africas democracy. Picture Henk Kruger/African News Agency(ANA)(ANATopixfreedom)
9/20: South Africa – Cape Town – 15 April 2021 – Oliver Reginald Tambo. Oliver Tambo was the Co-founder of the ANC Youth League, Secretary General and Deputy President of the ANC, longest-serving President of the ANC and Chairman of the ANC. The Long March to Freedom exhibition at Century City is a collection of 100 life-size figures that will grow into a procession of over 400 bronze statues over time. Visitors can walk through the loosely spaced procession, beginning in the 1700s with rebel chiefs and renegade missionaries, along generations of freedom fighters, until they meet Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela at the dawn of South Africas democracy. Picture Henk Kruger/African News Agency(ANA)(ANATopixfreedom)
10/20: South Africa – Cape Town – 15 April 2021 – Chris Hani was the Deputy Commander and Commissar of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK)and General Secretary of the South African Communist Party (SACP). Chris Hani was a loved and respected commander of MK, armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), and a high-ranking ANC and SACP leader during South Africas transition to democracy in the early 1990s. His charismatic leadership united radical and moderate factions in the liberation movement and disarmed even his fiercest critics. The Long March to Freedom exhibition at Century City is a collection of 100 life-size figures that will grow into a procession of over 400 bronze statues over time. Visitors can walk through the loosely spaced procession, beginning in the 1700s with rebel chiefs and renegade missionaries, along generations of freedom fighters, until they meet Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela at the dawn of South Africas democracy. Picture Henk Kruger/African News Agency(ANA)(ANATopixfreedom)
11/20: South Africa – Cape Town – 15 April 2021 – Victoria Mxenge and her husband Griffiths Mxenge. Victoria Mxenge joined her husband Griffiths law firm as an attorney in 1981, the year in which he was brutally assassinated. After his murder she became one of the most popular human rights lawyers in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) and instructed some of the countrys top advocates in various political trials. Griffiths Mxenge was a courageous attorney who became a significant threat to the ruling white government when he began practicing law in Durban from 1974. He and his wife Victoria successfully defended black political activists in Apartheid courts and became leading figures in mass campaigns against some of the racist regimes most repressive laws. The Long March to Freedom exhibition at Century City is a collection of 100 life-size figures that will grow into a procession of over 400 bronze statues over time. Visitors can walk through the loosely spaced procession, beginning in the 1700s with rebel chiefs and renegade missionaries, along generations of freedom fighters, until they meet Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela at the dawn of South Africas democracy. Picture Henk Kruger/African News Agency(ANA)(ANATopixfreedom)
12/20: South Africa – Cape Town – 15 April 2021 – Afrikaner cleric Beyers Naud actively campaigned against the injustices of Apartheid despite being shunned by his own people for refusing to submit to the policies of the racist regime. The Long March to Freedom exhibition at Century City is a collection of 100 life-size figures that will grow into a procession of over 400 bronze statues over time. Visitors can walk through the loosely spaced procession, beginning in the 1700s with rebel chiefs and renegade missionaries, along generations of freedom fighters, until they meet Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela at the dawn of South Africas democracy. Picture Henk Kruger/African News Agency(ANA)(ANATopixfreedom)
13/20: South Africa – Cape Town – 15 April 2021 – Albert Luthuli was the President General of the ANC, Chief of the Abasemakholweni Zulu and Africa’s first Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. The Long March to Freedom exhibition at Century City is a collection of 100 life-size figures that will grow into a procession of over 400 bronze statues over time. Visitors can walk through the loosely spaced procession, beginning in the 1700s with rebel chiefs and renegade missionaries, along generations of freedom fighters, until they meet Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela at the dawn of South Africas democracy. Picture Henk Kruger/African News Agency(ANA)(ANATopixfreedom)
14/20: South Africa – Cape Town – 15 April 2021 – Joe Slovo was a key personality in South Africas revolutionary politics for over four decades. He was a long-serving leader of the SACP and a founding member of the ANCs armed wing MK. He returned from exile in 1990 and played a key role in South Africas transition to democracy. The Long March to Freedom exhibition at Century City is a collection of 100 life-size figures that will grow into a procession of over 400 bronze statues over time. Visitors can walk through the loosely spaced procession, beginning in the 1700s with rebel chiefs and renegade missionaries, along generations of freedom fighters, until they meet Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela at the dawn of South Africas democracy. Picture Henk Kruger/African News Agency(ANA)(ANATopixfreedom)
15/20: South Africa – Cape Town – 15 April 2021 – Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu became a celebrated martyr when he died at the hands of the Apartheid state, despite a local and worldwide public outcry to save him from the death penalty. The Long March to Freedom exhibition at Century City is a collection of 100 life-size figures that will grow into a procession of over 400 bronze statues over time. Visitors can walk through the loosely spaced procession, beginning in the 1700s with rebel chiefs and renegade missionaries, along generations of freedom fighters, until they meet Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela at the dawn of South Africas democracy. Picture Henk Kruger/African News Agency(ANA)(ANATopixfreedom)
16/20: South Africa – Cape Town – 15 April 2021 – Olof Palme, more than any other international head of state, came to represent international solidarity with the struggle against Apartheid in South Africa. He pledged his nations support to the countrys liberation movement and held the international community accountable for their lack of action regarding the countrys racist regime. The Long March to Freedom exhibition at Century City is a collection of 100 life-size figures that will grow into a procession of over 400 bronze statues over time. Visitors can walk through the loosely spaced procession, beginning in the 1700s with rebel chiefs and renegade missionaries, along generations of freedom fighters, until they meet Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela at the dawn of South Africas democracy. Picture Henk Kruger/African News Agency(ANA)(ANATopixfreedom)
17/20: South Africa – Cape Town – 15 April 2021 – Winnie Mandela, was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, and the second wife of Nelson Mandela. She served as a Member of Parliament from 1994 to 2003, and from 2009 until her death, and was a deputy minister of arts and culture from 1994 to 1996. The Long March to Freedom exhibition at Century City is a collection of 100 life-size figures that will grow into a procession of over 400 bronze statues over time. Visitors can walk through the loosely spaced procession, beginning in the 1700s with rebel chiefs and renegade missionaries, along generations of freedom fighters, until they meet Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela at the dawn of South Africas democracy. Picture Henk Kruger/African News Agency(ANA)(ANATopixfreedom)
18/20: South Africa – Cape Town – 15 April 2021 – Walter Sisulu and his wife Albertina Sisulu. Walter Sisulu was the founder member and first Secretary of the ANC Youth League, Secretary General and Deputy President of the ANC. The Long March to Freedom exhibition at Century City is a collection of 100 life-size figures that will grow into a procession of over 400 bronze statues over time. Visitors can walk through the loosely spaced procession, beginning in the 1700s with rebel chiefs and renegade missionaries, along generations of freedom fighters, until they meet Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela at the dawn of South Africas democracy. Picture Henk Kruger/African News Agency(ANA)(ANATopixfreedom)
19/20: South Africa – Cape Town – 15 April 2021 – Mohandas Gandhi was the father of passive resistance whose Satyagraha philosophy, based on non-violent civil disobedience, inspired global movements throughout the 20th century. He led Indias struggle for independence in 1948 and influenced South Africas Resistance and Defiance Campaigns of the 1940s and 1950s, and later in the 1980s. The African-American civil rights movement of the 1960s also drew direct inspiration from Gandhi. The Long March to Freedom exhibition at Century City is a collection of 100 life-size figures that will grow into a procession of over 400 bronze statues over time. Visitors can walk through the loosely spaced procession, beginning in the 1700s with rebel chiefs and renegade missionaries, along generations of freedom fighters, until they meet Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela at the dawn of South Africas democracy. Picture Henk Kruger/African News Agency(ANA)(ANATopixfreedom)
20/20: South Africa – Cape Town – 15 April 2021 – British-born Helen Joseph was a champion of black rights who was regularly victimized by the South African government for her involvement with various liberation organisations. The Long March to Freedom exhibition at Century City is a collection of 100 life-size figures that will grow into a procession of over 400 bronze statues over time. Visitors can walk through the loosely spaced procession, beginning in the 1700s with rebel chiefs and renegade missionaries, along generations of freedom fighters, until they meet Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela at the dawn of South Africas democracy. Picture Henk Kruger/African News Agency(ANA)(ANATopixfreedom)
