Nelson Mandela’s estate: lack of funds and family feuds taint Madiba’s name today • FRANCE 24
It was here on the corner of 12th Avenue in Johannesburg that Nelson Mandela lived when he was president but this house which has seen the world’s highest dignitaries pass through its doors is now abandoned Mandela had specified in his world that his grandsons could live there but nobody took responsibility to
Pay Municipal bills amounting to €20,000 this grandson deplores the attitude of the trust in charge of his grandfather’s inheritance the water bill was becoming too expensive we then figured out that there was a water leak in one of the very big palm trees we then fix that waterly still the trust is
Not willing to help maintain the house or pay electricity or pay Municipal bills at all the Mandela Foundation was also tarnished by controversy when its director was forced to resign in June a researcher present since the foundation’s Inception says Madiba was already worried before his death about
The direction in which the country was moving well I spent a lot of time with Mya looking at the the reports of terrible failures of Service delivery corruption uh Mio reading his newspapers um it’s in that context that I saw his pain and heard His Pain um so
Where we are landing today in 2023 um um I’m in I’m in pain when I see what we’re dealing with mba’s dream to build the Children’s Hospital came true in 2017 however it is operating at half capacity while the oncology and two other Wards are closed due to insufficient funds the government cannot
Afford to increase its subsidies the patients are knocking at the door they’re getting referrals that we cannot bring in and so for us once we have the funding we know definitely that we’re going to grow without Nelson Mandela the institutions that bear his name are struggling to raise funds that could
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The world just commemorated the 10th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s death. Although his name and legacy still live on, what about the institutions that bear his name?
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6 comments
Ha ha ha lkr
Surprise, surprise.
Well no surprise here
The Madela family have traded on and lived off his name, with little achieved or done themselves.
I still wonder why people think Mandela was all that, what is happening to His estates is exactly what He fought for🎉🎉
Mandela foundation looted? Why am I not surprised?