{"id":9494,"date":"2013-08-21T07:41:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T07:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9494"},"modified":"2013-08-21T07:41:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T07:41:39","slug":"zille-rejoices-as-mandelas-victor-verster-house-becomes-national-landmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9494","title":{"rendered":"Zille rejoices as Mandela&#8217;s Victor Verster house becomes national landmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9495\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9495\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/zilledark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9495\" alt=\"Helen Zille, supporting the ANC icon\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/zilledark-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/zilledark-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/zilledark-70x40.jpg 70w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/zilledark.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Helen Zille, supporting the ANC icon Mandela<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nelson Mandela moved into his Victor Verster in 1988. A few year later the world watched in awe as Mandela walked free from Victor Verster prison.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Western Cape premier Helen Zille says: &#8220;We&#8217;ve heard some really interesting stories about the house&#8230; a lot of anecdotes. I mean we were told how Madiba saw a microwave for the first time and thought it was a TV. I mean everything in this house is still the same and we need to preserve such history&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">23 years later the refurbished Madiba Freedom Walk Road was opened. It has cost the DA municipality R6 million to upgrade the road.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The DA believes tourists will flock to the place in numbers and the refurbished road would make access easier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Correctional facilities are very strict. Before, anyone coming to the house had to go through the prison gate. Now the road grants everyone easier access to the Madiba house,&#8221; says Correctional services&#8217; Jacobus Sinclair.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Madiba house is now a landmark that is\u00a0etched in history, according to the main opposition party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nelson Mandela moved into his Victor Verster in 1988. A few year later the world watched in awe as Mandela walked free from Victor Verster prison. Western Cape premier Helen Zille says: &#8220;We&#8217;ve heard some really interesting stories about the house&#8230; a lot of anecdotes. I mean we were told how Madiba saw a microwave &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9494\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Zille rejoices as Mandela&#8217;s Victor Verster house becomes national landmark&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[97,2289,5373,560,5371,5372],"class_list":["post-9494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-da","tag-madiba","tag-madiba-freedom-walk-road","tag-nelson-mandela","tag-victor-verster","tag-western-cape-premier-helen-zille"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/zilledark.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9497,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9494\/revisions\/9497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}