Madiba statues

Former president Nelson Mandela is a global icon, depicted in statues in cities all across the world

1 A bronze statue unveiledin Worcester on July 18, 2012.

2 To mark his 94th birthday, German jewellery artist Tom Rucker created a sculpture of Mandela using platinum wire. The sculpture was unveiled by Helen Zille at the Cape Town International Conference Centre.

3 The statue that was unveiled on August 21, 2008, at the Groot Drakenstein Prison in Paarl.

4 This statue in St Georges Mall, Cape Town, is made entirely from chicken wire.

11 A beaded statue of Mandela at O.R. Tambo Airport, Johannesburg. 12 Right: Sandton Square was renamed Nelson Mandela Square in March 2004, after a six-metre tall statue of the former president was erected.

14 An artists impression of the 125-metre high rotating statue that was planned for Port Elizabeth. It would have looked towards Robben Island at sunset.

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13 Statue outside the Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital in Mthatha.

15 A sculpture built near Howick in KZN, to commemorate 50 years since Mandelas arrest here. It consists of 50 steel posts, seemingly randomly placed, but from a distance they reect Mandelas face. It was designed by South African artist Marcho Cianfanelli.

16 This statue was unveiled in Kempton Park in 2000.

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15 8 13 6 This statue on Nobel Square, at the V & A Waterfront, was designed by Noria Mabasa and Claudette Schreuders. 17 A statue of Mandela will soon be on display in Washington in the U.S. The SA ambassador to the U.S, Ebrahim Rasool, awarded the commission to Jean Doyle. The sculpture is a replica of the one in Paarl. The bronze sculpture will stand opposite Winston Churchill in Massachusetts Avenue. 19 20 21 22 17

unveiled on April 13, 1992, at the V & A Waterfront in Cape Town.

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21 Former Archbishop Emeritus and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Desmond Tutu, unveiled a Mandela statue in the Hague on September 25, 2012. 22 Left: On 29 August 2007, this statue was placed in Parliament Square in London. The campaign to erect the statue was started in 2000 by the late Donald Woods, a South African journalist.
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7 A bronze bust presented to the City of Cape Town by sculptor John Francis Gardner in October 2009.

8 Nelson Mandela statue at Ohlange High School in Inanda, north of Durban.

9 A life-size bronze statue in Mandela Village, near the Kwalata Game Reserve in Hammanskraal, Gauteng.

10 The worlds tallest Mandela statue (6,5 metres) was unveiled in December 2012 in Bloemfontein.

18 Statue unveiled in Lima, Peru, in May 2010. It was made by the sculptor Humberto Hoyos Guevara.

19 A statue by Ian Walters outside the Royal Festival Hall in Southbank, London.

20 The wax statue in the section for world leaders of Madame Tussauds, Marylebone Road, London.