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Nelson Mandela: The Official Exhibition Learning Resources LANDMARKS

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London has a close relationship with Nelson Mandela and the Anti-Apartheid Movement. Students can use this map to explore some of the places, people and events that made London the epicentre for the Freedom Struggle outside South Africa and source of the global call to ‘Free Nelson Mandela’. Students can visit landmarks close to their local area, and others near to Leake Street, the location of Nelson Mandela: The Official Exhibition, such as Ian Walters’ bronze bust of Nelson Mandela outside the . Hundreds of buildings, streets and landmarks across the UK have been named after Nelson Mandela – more streets are named after him © R Barraez D’Lucca / Flickr in the UK than anywhere else outside of South Africa. Students can research these in their local area. How many references can they find to Nelson Mandela and other key figures and events in the Struggle?

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Brent Camden Islington Hackney 11 8 7 Newham 16 Tower 14 1 Hamlets Ealing 15 2 City of City of LONDON Westminster 6 Hammersmith 17 4 5 9 & Fulham Kensington & Chelsea 12 Southwark Greenwich 13 Hounslow 10 Lewisham Wandsworth Richmond Lambeth upon Thames

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1 Holborn Hall 5  10  15  2 South Africa House 6  11  16 The 3 Oliver Tambo’s Home / 7 ANC Headquarters 12  17 Hyde Park Bust of Oliver Tambo 8 Wessex Studios 13 Brixton 4 Statue of Nelson Mandela 9 Bust of Nelson Mandela 14 St James’ Park

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1 3 5 Holborn Hall Oliver Tambo’s Home / Palace of Westminster 193–197 High Holborn WC1V 7BD Bust of Oliver Tambo Houses of Parliament SW1A OAA A 500–strong group of South African exiles 51 Alexandra Park Road Muswell Hill In 1996, Nelson Mandela addresses members and their supporters meet here in June 1959 N10 2DG / Albert Road Recreation of both the House of Commons and the House to call for a boycott of fruit, cigarettes and Ground N22 of Lords in the Palace of Westminster. A brass other goods imported from South Africa. In 1960, the African National Congress (ANC) plaque marks this historic occasion. This marks the start of what soon becomes president Oliver Tambo and his wife Adelaide the Anti-Apartheid Movement, growing into flee South Africa and settle in London with 6 Westminster Abbey an international campaign against the their young family. They remain there in exile 20 Dean’s Yard SW1P 3PA apartheid regime. until the ANC ban is lifted in 1990. Their home in Muswell Hill becomes the epicentre of the In 2018, a memorial stone for Nelson Mandela is 2 Anti-Apartheid Movement. unveiled in Westminster Abbey. The inscription South Africa House WC2N 5DP In 2007, a bust of Oliver Tambo by Ian Walters in the centre of the stone reads: Nelson Mandela 1918–2013. In a circle around this 15,000 demonstrators gather outside in and a plaque at his former house in Muswell Hill are the words: Forgiveness Reconciliation. February 1960 following the Boycott March. are unveiled in lasting tribute to his role in the anti-apartheid struggle. The pavement directly outside becomes the 7 ANC Headquarters central location for the Non-Stop Picket, a 4 28 Penton Street Islington N1 continuous day and night protest organised by Statue of Nelson Mandela the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, held Westminster SW1P 3BD The headquarters of the exiled African National between 1986–1990, calling for the release of Outlawed and hunted by the South African Congress from 1978–1994. It is bombed in 1982. Nelson Mandela and other political prisoners. authorities, Mandela travels to London in Nine South African security police officers 1962 for the first time. He visits Westminster later admitted to the attack and were granted Abbey and Parliament Square, where he jokes amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation with Oliver Tambo about one day having their Commission in 1999. statues erected in London. The South African Communist party also sets In 2007, thousands attend the unveiling of up a headquarters in London. the bronze statue of Nelson Mandela, by Ian Walters, in Parliament Square.

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8 11 14 Wessex Studios Wembley Stadium St James’ Park Highbury N5 2DW HA9 0WS SW1A 2BJ Jerry Dammers’ The Special AKA record global Wembley Stadium hosts the Free Nelson Mandela plants a commemorative London awareness-raising hit single (Free) Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute on 11 June 1988. Plane tree, in 1996, as a symbol of growth and Mandela here in 1984. The legendary recording It is broadcast to 67 countries and a global strength, and quips: “I wish I had the resources studio is eventually redeveloped as apartments audience of over 600 million. to come and water it every week.” in 2003. A second concert is held at Wembley in April 15 1990 to keep the pressure on South Africa to Buckingham Palace 9 Bust of Nelson Mandela abolish apartheid. A newly-liberated Nelson SW1A 1AA Royal Festival Hall Southbank SE1 8XX Mandela attends and is met with huge applause A state banquet is held here in 1996 in honour In 1985 Oliver Tambo unveils a bust of Nelson when he addresses the crowd. of President Mandela. Mandela, by artist Ian Walters, outside the Royal Festival Hall. It is destroyed by vandals 16 The British Museum but later recast by Walters in bronze, in 1988. SW1A 2AA Bloomsbury WC1B 3DG Mandela returns to London just weeks after his Mandela inaugurates the British Museum’s 10 Clapham Common release in 1990. He meets then-Prime Minister Great Court lecture theatre in 2000. SW4 at 10 Downing Street, a

In 1986, Artists Against Apartheid hosts a significant step as the ANC had previously been 17 Hyde Park landmark outdoor festival on the Common to classified as an outlaw terrorist organization WC2 protest against apartheid. The free concert by the Conservative UK government. Tens of thousands of demonstrators throng is initiated by Jerry Dammers and fellow here in July 1988 for the Nelson Mandela musicians, and follows a mass march through 13 Brixton Freedom Rally, the culmination of the 590 miles central London. It is the inspiration for the SW2 Freedom March from Glasgow to London. larger-scale Wembley concert held two Nelson Mandela makes a memorable walkabout Twenty years later, the ‘46664 concert ‘(named years later. in Brixton with HRH Prince of during the after Mandela’s prisoner number) is held here 1996 state visit, where he draws huge crowds of as part of the celebrations organised in honour well-wishers. of his 90th birthday in 2008. Here he makes his famous “It is time for new hands to lift the burden, it is in your hands now” speech.

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