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Life-size bronze statue of Archbishop Desmond Tutu to be unveiled in Human Rights Month
The world’s greatest exhibition in bronze will soon welcome someone who needs no introduction: on 23 March 2023, in commemoration of Human Rights Month, the life-size statue of the late Emeritus Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu will join the other 100 iconic resistance leaders in Long March to Freedom, taking his rightful place in South Africa’s journey to democracy.
6 March 2023
Report Africa - In South Africa, the History of the struggle for emancipation is written in hundreds of statues
By: Romain Chanson Follow
8 November 2021
Hey Museums promotes the Long March to Freedom Exhibition located in Century City, Cape Town. The largest exhibition of bronze statues anywhere in the world.
En Afrique du Sud, l'histoire de la lutte pour l'émancipation s'écrit en centaines de statues
REPORTAGE AFRIQUE RFI/ by Romain Chanson
11 August 2021
The CODAawards celebrate the projects that most successfully integrate commissioned art into interior, architectural, or public spaces. The Long March to Freedom participated in the 2021 CODAawards although not selected for inclusion in the Top 100, the LMTF project was chosen to feature in the CODAmagazine’s feature on Art for the Outdoors
July 2021
Sara-Jayne King talks to the CEO of the National Heritage Project Company Dali Tambo about this pinnacle of heritage tourism.
6 June 2021
Bronze statues are displayed at a tourist spot named The Long March to Freedom in Cape Town, South Africa, on May 23, 2021. The Long March to Freedom has life-size Bronze statues of 100 individuals who struggled for South Africa's freedom from the early 1700s to Freedom Day in April 1994.
Global Times : Xinhua
24 May 2021
Cape Town - The Embassy of Ireland and Tourism Ireland brought the famous St Patrick’s Day Global Greening initiative to Cape Town, when the Long March to Freedom exhibition site was lit in luminous green on Wednesday.
17 March 2021 – St Patrick’s Day
Long March to Freedom exhibition illuminated in green as part of St Patrick’s Day celebrations
Mlamli Maneli | SABCNews
Ireland's Ambassador to South Africa, Fionnuala Gilsenan, says The March to Freedom celebrates the role that the Irish anti-apartheid movement played to help to dismantle the regime
18 March 2021, 4:15 PM
SABC News Reporter Vanessa Poonah covers the Global Greening of the Long March to Freedom
South Africa’s iconic Long March to Freedom exhibition is honoured to be selected to “go green” for St Patrick’s Day. The Long March to Freedom is one of two sites in South Africa and 600 sites in 60 countries in the world that is going green for St Patrick’s Day 2021.
18 March 2021
PICS | SA landmarks illuminated green for St Patrick's Day
A hundred bronze sculptures of South African struggle icons have turned green to commemorate St Patrick's Day.
18 March 2021
The march continues: A critique of The Long March to Freedom statue collection exhibited in Century City
ABSTRACT
At a moment in South African history that calls for decolonial perspectives on ideological and material remnants of the country's colonial and apartheid pasts, the exhibition of The Long March to Freedom...
2020
Long March to Freedom at Century City
by MapMyWay
The Long March to Freedom is a one-of-a-kind concept. A tour through the procession is an immersive and moving experience as visitors connect with the lives of the persons so vividly created in bronze...
12 February 2020
Bronze statues are displayed at a tourist spot named The Long March to Freedom in Cape Town, South Africa, on May 23, 2021. The Long March to Freedom has life-size Bronze statues of 100 individuals who struggled for South Africa's freedom from the early 1700s to Freedom Day in April 1994.
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Long March to Freedom Ausstellung
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25 January 2020
“Halaal Travels” Blog features the Long March to Freedom
A Walk through History
11 December 2019
Expresso (SABC 3) presenter, Thabiso Makhubela interviews Dali Tambo, the concept originator of the Long March to Freedom in Century City, Cape Town. Thabiso is blown away by the detail of the bronzes and finds the Long March to Freedom a submersive, emotive experience.
10 December 2019
Expresso Breakfast Show SABC 3 crosses live to The Long March to Freedom and host and interviewer, Thabiso Makhubela interviews Artist, Xhanti Mpakama about the bronze statue of Samora Machel he produced for the Long March to Freedom exhibition.
6 December 2019
The South African – article by Shannon Correia
Imagine having the opportunity to see all those who had an instrumental role in South Africa’s democracy all together, in life-size form? That is exactly what you can expect at the Long March to Freedom display, providing viewers with an artistic experience and one which fosters learning.
27 November 2019
Watch this video of the Stalwart, Denis Goldberg being interviewed at the launch of the Long March to Freedom in Cape Town
At the opening of the Long March to Freedom in Century City, Cape Town. Denis Goldberg speaks about the heroes that are honoured in the exhibition and the many thousands that should still be honoured. It wasn’t just Nelson Mandela who brought freedom to South Africa. Freedom came when the masses united with a common goal – freedom for all South Africans. Also see Dali Tambo’s speech at the launch.
19 November 2019
Long March to Freedom exhibition opens in Cape Town – SABC News
The Long March to Freedom exhibition has arrived in Cape Town. It's a collection of 100 life-size figures that will in time grow into a procession of over 400 bronze statues. They depict the country's 350-year struggle for freedom and democracy.
19 November 2019
100 individuals who struggled for South Africa's freedom from the early 1700s to Freedom Day in April 1994.
It started with a dream to honour struggle heroes in sculpture form. Artist and activist Dali Tambo, son of Adelaide and Oliver Tambo, was visiting his father’s grave when he reflected on the fact that there was no statue of his parents in South Africa, despite the massive role they played in the struggle for democracy…
A world-first in bold bronze By Yonga Balfour
18 November 2018
Launch of the Long March to Freedom in Cape Town
Dominic Adriaanse’s article for Cape Times
15 November 2019
The Long March to Freedom exhibit has come to Cape Town! Residents can now visit Century City to view the tribute to some of the most iconic African and international struggle icons.
“It is a great honor to call Century City the new home of The Long March to Freedom statues,” said Chris Blackshaw, CEO of Century City Property Owners’ Association. “We are able to give this exhibition exceptional prominence along the N1, opposite entrance 4 of Canal Walk. Together with our existing natural heritage site, Intaka Island, we are very excited to contribute so richly to the education of our children in the Western Cape.”
15 November 2019
Profit Share Partners committed to partnering with the Long March to Freedom, publishes a press release.
ProfitShare Partners is a proud supporter of the National Heritage Project’s Long March to Freedom procession that will be opening at Century City in Cape Town on 15 November 2019.
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11 November 2019
Century City Properties releases a press statement. The Long March to Freedom is coming to Cape Town!
October 2019
The Long March by Dr Rajagopala Soondron
Other Mauritians have written about Mauritian freedom fighter Louis Van Mauritius, yet it was left to the South Africans to give him his right place in history
24 June 2019
Anti-Apartheid activist, Ahmed Kathrada was on Friday described by many as a person who always sacrificed so much for others and put other people before himself.
Struggle veterans Andrew Mlangeni, Sophie Williams-De Bruyn and former speaker of the National Assembly, Frene Ginwala, honoured Kathrada with the unveiling of a life-size bronze statue at the Cradle of Humankind heritage site in Magaliesburg, west of Johannesburg.
18 May 2019
Ahmed Kathrada honoured with a life-sized statue - SABC News
A life-sized statue of anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada has been unveiled at the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in Maropeng, Gauteng
17 May 2019
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Women struggle veterans in the spotlight. Dali Tambo is interviewed about the role women played in the liberation of South Africa.
27 April 2019
In the Cradle of Humankind, a short drive from the city of Joburg, the Long March to Freedom exhibition greets you unexpectedly as you approach Maropeng’s Visitor Centre.
Freedom fighters from the early 1700s all the way up to that pivotal moment in South Africa’s history, Freedom Day of 1994, are standing - or rather walking - in procession and symbolically fighting for the liberation of South Africa in a forward direction towards the dawn of our country’s democracy.
PICS: Maropeng's Long March to Freedom | News24
15 February 2019
2Summers – An American in Quirky Johannesburg
Helather Mason is an American writer/blogger/photographer living a quirky life in Johannesburg. Follow her along as she explores South Africa and watch her blogs on her visits to the Long March to Freedom
22 January 2019
“Then I visited the Workhorse Bronze Foundry and gained a whole new appreciation for the creation of this type of art. I went to Workhorse last week as part of the Long March to Freedom art walk. Several of the Long March to Freedom sculptures were made there, and it was cool to follow the path of these historic bronze figures that I’ve now visited several times in different locations. More generally though, it was cool to visit the place where so many of South Africa’s great sculptors make their art”.
Balancing out SA's biased history with 100 life-sized statues
'The Long March To Freedom', an ambitious sculpture installation at Tshwane's National Heritage Monument, aims to redress 'the lack of representation of black icons' in South Africa, writes Sean O'Toole
10 July 2018
As part of an ambitious project to honour the activists in the fight for freedom, South Africa has unveiled the first 96 out of 400 life-sized sculptures in its National Heritage Monument's Long March to Freedom at Pretoria. The Long March to Freedom is a monumental celebration of South Africa's Struggle for Freedom and Democracy. It displays a history that brought forth many heroes in the battle against colonialism and oppression that began in the 17th century.
CCTV Video News Agency
January 2018
South Africa's fight for freedom and independence lasted centuries. An ambitious project aims to honour the hundreds of activists involved, dating back to the 17th century. So far, 96 life-size bronze sculptures have been unveiled at the heritage monument in Pretoria. CGTN's Julie Scheier went to take a look.
CGTN Africa video on Long March to Freedom
17 January 2018
Long March to Freedom, Groenkloof, City of Tshwane
Imagine, a country’s history in bronze. The 55 bronze statues in the exhibition are enhanced by coloured patina and show amazing detail in the clothing, artefacts etc.
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16 August 2016