South Africa commemorates the 50th anniversary of the raid on Liliesleaf Farm:
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1. Pan of Liliesleaf farm, now a heritage site
2. Wide of visitors walking around the farm
3. Visitors looking at exhibits in the “Thatched Cottage” where several senior members of the African National Congress were captured
4. Close of photograph in exhibit from 50 years ago inside the “Thatched Cottage”
5. Close sign in “Thatched Cottage” reading (English): “This is where we stayed. This was our bedroom, our dining room, our meeting room, everything.”
6. Wide exterior of Nelson Mandela’s room in Liliesleaf Farm
7. Photograph of Mandela displayed inside the room
8. Close of photograph of Mandela
9. Mid of actor John Kani speaking to musician Sipho “Hotstix” Mabuse, both anti-Apartheid activists
10. Tilt up from teacup to Kani’s face
11. SOUNDBITE (English) John Kani, South African actor and anti-Apartheid activist:
“At my age, at 70, it’s about ‘once upon a time’ because these stories are memories. Our young people have no memory beyond 1994.”
12. Various of school pupils looking at farm from roof terrace
13. Kani telling the story of the raid on Liliesleaf farm from the roof terrace, as part of a local radio broadcast
14. Sign on roof terrace showing photograph of farm from 50 years ago with text reading (English): “Aerial view of Liliesleaf: July 1963”
15. School pupils listening to Kani speaking
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Sipho “Hotstix” Mabuse, Musician and anti-Apartheid activist:
“And I remember well, what it meant, not to have a passbook. You know, what it meant for my mother to wake up at 4 in the morning just to go and find a job. That, for me, was, you know… Now, these places mean that much.”
17. South African Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe greeting visitors at Liliesleaf farm
18. Various of Motlanthe walking through heritage site
19. Various of group of school pupils talking
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonathan Otty, 17, school pupil:
“We can be taught about history, we can be told about history, but unless you truly immerse yourselves in it, and walk in the shoes of those before you, and in the actual historical figures, you can never really truly grasp it and understand it as a whole.”
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Bongi Maseko, 19, school pupil:
“Because, as young people, we’ve definitely been criticised as a generation which lets go of culture. So I think, for us, it’s essential that, as young people, we connect with our past and know our roots, and know exactly what our country has been through. Because as the youth, we are the leaders of the future.”
22. Wide of Liliesleaf farm
STORYLINE
South Africa on Thursday commemorated the 50th anniversary of the 1963 raid on the Liliesleaf farm in Johannesburg that netted most leaders of the African National Congress (ANC), then a liberation movement and now South Africa’s ruling party.
On 11 July, 1963 at Liliesleaf Farm – the temporary headquarters of the liberation struggle – armed police burst out of a dry-cleaning van, arresting some of the most senior leaders of the armed wing of the ANC.
Nelson Mandela was already in prison at that time.
Then followed the “Rivonia” trial at which Mandela, among 10 others, was accused of sabotage and plotting to overthrow the government.
Mandela declared that he was prepared to die, if necessary, for his belief in racial equality.
Meetings between the men – including Govan Mbeki and Walter Sisulu – used to take place in the small thatched cottage, a place where up to five men would sleep, cook, and strategise.
A young Mandela spent time here in a small face-brick room, living in the servants’ quarters under the alias David Motsamayi, to avoid raising suspicion.
The men arrested at Liliesleaf half a century ago were their friends, comrades and heroes.
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