FREEDOM PARK

The South African poet and writer Mongane Wally Serote is the instigator of the project. The original idea is to offer an architectural and therefore symbolic response to the Voortrekker on the neighbouring hill. An official tribute to the political history of the country, to the black natural and cultural heritage of the nation. The 35 ha of the site include a museum and a memorial garden with statues of national leaders who have marked history, other than white, personalities such as: Steve Biko, Oliver Tambo, Helen Joseph, Albert Luthuli and Bram Fisher. An official tribute to the victims of violence in South Africa and to the liberators of Western-dominated countries around the world is reflected in the inscription of some 136,000 names on a 697-metre-long wall of those who fell in the Boer Wars, both World Wars and under apartheid. The park is seen as a contribution to the Truth and Reconciliation process to restore the true history of South Africa.
In addition, travellers will be happy to come across here the memory of international leaders who were able to create revolutions in their colonized country: the Mozambican president who died in a plane crash, who lived in South Africa before liberating his country from colonization, Samora Machel, the modernist theorist on the African Revolution Amilcar Cabral, but also the memory of the liberator from the French yoke, the Haitian Toussaint Louverture, and in Cuba of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro!