They came from the rural hinterlands of Mthatha and for hours on Tuesday morning, the normally quiet Nelson Mandela Museum Youth and Heritage site in Qunu was transformed into a “mini Disneyland” as 300 little voices enjoyed a day of fun and games, all in the name of world icon and former statesman Nelson Mandela.
The Springboks’ World Cup victory in France in October demonstrated that the division and despondency caused by SA’s current political leaders could be overcome and that the late Bishop Desmond Tutu’s rainbow nation could be resurrected.
Society leaders, academics, students and a wide segment of urban, rural and Khoi-San communities held a discussion on Tuesday on the social and economic challenges facing SA.
Little Miss SA 2022 Avile Nkcita, 14, a pupil at Zingisa Comprehensive School, has become an unlikely hero at her school after managing to get the Nelson Mandela Museum to fund a library that will benefit hundreds of her fellow pupils.
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