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UNESCO on Saturday (July 27) added to its World Heritage list a village where Nelson Mandela grew up and the site of an apartheid-era massacre among the sites in South Africa that are milestones in the struggle to end white minority rule.
The massacre was the 1960 massacre in Sharpeville, in Transvaal province, where police killed 69 black protesters, including children, a turning point that led the apartheid government to ban the African National Congress (ANC) that now governs.
As for the remote village of Mqhekezweni, in Eastern Cape province, Mandela spent part of his youth there. In his autobiography “Long Walk to Freedom,” he explains that it was there that his political activism began.
To date, 14 listed sites are linked to Nelson Mandela
Mandela, who died in 2013 at the age of 95, became South Africa’s first black leader four years after being released from prison. He had been deprived of his freedom for 27 years, including on Robben Island, off the coast of Cape Town.
