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A fascinating item for anyone interested in South Africa’s recent history, is a copy of the ANC Freedom Charter of 1955 which is estimated to sell at Bonhams South African Art Sale on March 24th in London for £20,000-£30,000.
Nelson Mandela recalled in his autobiography: “The Freedom Charter captured the hopes and dreams of the people and acted as a blueprint for the liberation struggle and the future of the nation.”
The document is notable for its demand for and commitment to a non-racial South Africa, and this has remained the …Related posts:
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Bonhams To Auction ANC Charter That Recalls Century of Struggle In South Africa
The first Bonhams South African Art Sale in 2007 attracted paintings and sculpture from the UK and South Africa, but thanks to the growing success of these sales, a wider group of South African expats and nationals is sending art to London.
Bonhams is holding the next South African Art sale on Wednesday 18 February 2009 […]
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About 47 metric tons of ivory auctioned for about 6.7 million U.S. dollars in aid of South Africa’s conservation efforts, South Africa National Parks said on Thursday.
The sale, approved by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), took place in Pretoria.
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) criticised the sales as irresponsible, saying they would encourage poaching that has cut elephant populations drastically.
“By permitting legal trade in ivory, we are only encouraging the laundering of stocks by poachers, thereby increasing illegal hunting activities,” IFAW elephants programme director Michael Wamithi said in a statement.
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Jacob Hendrik Pierneef’s great painting ‘The Baobab Tree’ sold on 10 September 2008 at Bonhams fourth South African Art sale for a whopping £826,400, creating a new record price for South African Art.
The pre-sale estimate of £200,000 to £300,000 was almost tripled at the sale, and in doing so toppled the previous record holder, a […]
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SOUTH AFRICAN ART SALE CLEARS £7.1M AT BONHAMS
Naspers Africa’s largest media company, said it will auction off its MWEB Internet service provider company.
“MWEB is planning to invest in wireless broadband,” Cape Town-based Naspers said in a stock exchange statement today. “This strategy, focusing on connectivity, diverges from Naspers’s core focus of online content platforms, communities and commerce.”
Naspers operates chat rooms and auction sites in Poland, Russia and China.
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