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Madiba Mural

This 10-storey-tall mural by Capetonian street artist Freddy Sam (aka Ricky Lee Gordon) is inspired by the famous photo taken by Robert Gosani of Madiba in 1952. It was commissioned as a tribute on Nelson Mandela's death and completed four days later.

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