Liliesleaf farm in Rivonia made histor
Liliesleaf farm in Rivonia made history when prominent South African struggle leaders were arrested there on this day forty nine years ago.
After it was raided...the famous Rivonia Treason trial took place.
Liliesleaf Farm on Top Billing (full insert)
Top Billing shot on location at the beautiful Liliesleaf Farm.
Vuyo Mvoko crossing life from Liliesleaf farm in Rivonia Johannesburg
Liliesleaf farm marks 46 years since the Rivonia raid
This year Liliesleaf in Rivonia marks 66 years since the Rivonia raid and trial and most of the original structures to this historical site stand as no longer part of the past but the future. Liliesleaf farm possesses a rich and very important part of our countrys history. It is in this farm that the ANCs military wing MK leaders such as Walter Sisulu, Nelson Mandela and many others were captured and trialled in the famous Rivonia trial that led to the world opening its eyes to the atrocities of apartheid in South Africa.
The 50th Anniversary of the Raid on Liliesleaf farm by Olebogeng Kgosilentswe.
Liliesleaf was the nerve centre of liberation activity and the raid dealt a serve hammer below to the struggle resulting in the arrest of 18 people including key leaders of the liberation movement.
The 2018 Nelson Mandela CEO SleepOut™: Liliesleaf Edition Official Event Video
The Nelson Mandela CEO SleepOut™ Event was held on Wednesday 11 July 2018, a date that marked the 55th anniversary of the capture of six of the 10 Rivonia Treason Trialists.
The Event saw an intimate group of CEOs gathering with a number of special guests, including a media contingency, at Liliesleaf Farm and Museum in Rivonia, Johannesburg.
This Liliesleaf Edition formed part of The 2018 SleepOut™ movement series, which honoured the 100th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s birthday.
A visit to Liliesleaf Farm, ANC safe house in 1961-62. 37 ye
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Liliesleaf, A place of liberation
Today marks 50 years since the Rivonia trialists, former president Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, Elias Motsoaledi, Denis Goldberg, Raymond Mhlaba, Ahmed Kathrada and Andrew Mlangeni were sentenced to life in prison.
On 11 July 1963 police raided Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia and arrested the high command of Umkhonto we Sizwe.
They were charged with sabotage and sentenced on June 12 1964.
For more we joined in studio by co founder and CEO of the Liliesleaf Trust Nicholas Wolpe.
Rivonia's Liliesleaf Farm sheltered leaders of the struggle
Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia here in Johannesburg is where the leaders of struggle against apartheid sought shelter and attended meetings at one time during the struggle. On 11 July 1963 police raided the farm. This resulted in the Rivonia Trial at which the eight accused were sentenced to life in prison. Liliesleaf has since become a centre of memory. we are now joined by Nicholas Wolpe, founder and chief executive of the Liliesleaf trust.
The future of Liliesleaf Farm and the current political landscape in S Africa
Tucked away in the leafy suburb of Rivonia, Johannesburg is Liliesleaf. Once the nerve centre of the liberation movement and a place of refuge for its leaders, today Liliesleaf is one of South Africa’s foremost, award-winning heritage sites, where the journey to democracy in South Africa is honoured.
architectureZA - N Naidoo on Liliesleaf Farm, Rivonia
architectureZA - Architect Nadine Naidoo being interviewed on one of her favourite buildings/precincts in Johannesburg, the Lilliesleaf Farm. The farm was where members of the ANC met to plan the overthrow of the apartheid government. It was also here that many of them were arrested by the police of the time, leading to the famous 'Rivonia Trail'. The farm is now open to the public.
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Liliesleaf farm interactive museum
Liliesleaf farm gives visitors a first-hand account of the events and circumstances leading up to the infamous raid of the Rivonia farm. Tanja Bencun chats to Gavin Olivier, head of exhibition development at Liliesleaf, about the interactive museum...More on the story...
Lilies Leaf Farm The Nerve Centre to South Africa's Liberation
Liliesleaf: A Place of Liberation
Liliesleaf will take you on a journey of inspiration, enlightenment and discovery. Learn about the stories, events and activities that defined a seminal moment in South Africa's history.
Mantis is currently developing a boutique hotel, adjoining the historical site, which will create an opulent sanctuary of peace, luxury and tranquility for all guests. Situated on the original Liliesleaf farm in the leafy suburb of Rivonia, this hotel will be a truly remarkable destination.
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
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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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