, and is to be brought back to life by a lottery grant that will transform it into Britain's first centre devoted to the anti-apartheid movement. The building will become known as the Anti-Apartheid Legacy: Centre of Memory and Learning, and will provide permanent and temporary exhibitions, the former of which will contain items from including correspondence with Nelson and Winnie Mandela . A £1.2 million grant){kind=link}
To the uninformed eye, it is simply a terraced house. It sits on a north London street and those who pass it are mostly unaware that, not so long ago, it was both loved and attacked as a key base of the anti-apartheid movement.
No 28 Penton Street was the London headquarters of the exiled African National Congress (ANC), and is to be brought back to life by a lottery grant that will transform it into Britain’s first centre devoted to the anti-apartheid movement.
The building will become known as the Anti-Apartheid Legacy: Centre of Memory and Learning, and will provide permanent and temporary exhibitions, the former of which will contain items from including correspondence with Nelson and Winnie Mandela.
A £1.2 million grant
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