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The Star reports that workers at the Mandela House Museum in Soweto are worried about job losses as management has announced that the tourist site will be liquidated to pay off debt.
The house, which is a major tourist attraction on Vilakazi Street in Orlando West, Soweto, is apparently due to be liquidated and the assets sold to pay off debtors. Mandela left the house to the Soweto Heritage Trust, of which he was also a founder. The trust restored the house in 2008 to preserve its history through fund-raising events. The museum has been managed by the Apartheid Museum and not the Soweto Heritage Trust since 2010. Staff at the house-turned-museum said on Tuesday that they were surprised to learn that it was going to be liquidated and the furniture sold off to pay off debts incurred by the Soweto Heritage Trust. “We never knew the house was in debt because it is a popular tourist attraction. The whole thing is being done in secret and we are not told anything. We don’t even know when the liquidation will happen,” said one employee. On Tuesday, the Apartheid Museum and the interim trustees promised to respond to questions but in the evening said they would release a press statement later in the week.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Tebogo Monama at The Star
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