More than 20 years after struggle stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's nine-year banishment to the remote township of Brandfort in the Free State ended, plans are in place to turn the house in which she lived into a museum or a National Heritage Site.
In 1977 Madikizela-Mandela was exiled to Brandfort. She lived in house number 802 in a street without a name in the township of Brandfort. Madikizela-Mandela spent almost nine years of her life under house arrest. After she returned to Soweto in 1985, the house and adjoining clinic were damaged by fire.
Residents say Madikizela-Mandela, a trained social worker, cared for the sick and hungry in this clinic.
New owners ready to move
It is while staying in Brandfort that Madikizela-Mandela achieved the status of international political martyr. Ted Kennedy, a US senator, and Richard Attenborough, a film director, made pilgrimages to her house, usually in the company of journalists.
In 1990 the municipality sold the house to a couple from Verkeerdevlei. Elizabeth Jonas, who now lives in the house, says she will move if the municipality builds her a new house.
The district council has to apply to Pallo Jordan, the arts and culture minister, if it wants to convert the house into a museum or heritage site.
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