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Shadow Boxing Sculpture

Based on Bob Gasini's famous photo of Mandela shadow boxing in 1952, this 5m-tall painted steel sculpture by Jo'burg artist Marco Cianfanelli stands opposite Chancellor House, where Nelson and Oliver Tambo set up South Africa's first black-owned law firm.

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