The Department of Arts and Culture plans to take control of the historic Liliesleaf Farm, currently a private museum. The department said CEO Nicholas Wolpe did not use R8.1 million of a funding grant ...

The department of sport, arts and culture (DSAC) has revealed that it withdrew funding for the Liliesleaf Farm museum after its managers could not account for an R8.1m donation. The ministry said in a ...

Liliesleaf Farm was purchased by the Communist Party in August 1961, through Navian (Pty) Ltd, a front company for the party, as the secret meeting place for its leadership. Over time it evolved into ...

On July 11, 1963, a dry cleaner’s van crept down the curving dirt road to Liliesleaf Farm, where Nelson Mandela once lived. Inside a thatched-roof cottage, leaders of the armed wing of the banned ...

Nelson Mandela’s room at Liliesleaf. Mandela lived at Liliesleaf for a short while, taking the name David Motsamayi (the name of one of his former clients) and wearing blue overalls in an attempt to ...

Johannesburg - Liliesleaf farm in Rivonia will be turned into a heritage site, Arts and Culture Minister Paul Mashatile has announced. Speaking at the 48th anniversary gala dinner to honour the ...

Apart from preserving the farm’s history and significance, Motau says ensuring long-term financial sustainability is a top priority under his leadership. In the heart of Johannesburg lies Liliesleaf ...

There is surely a hit movie waiting to be made about Liliesleaf Farm, legendary secret headquarters of the anti-apartheid underground in the early 1960s. The story has it all: a daring secret plot to ...

Liliesleaf Farm in Rivionia, north of Johannesburg, will reopen in June 2008 for people wanting to tour the former secret headquarters of the African National Congress’s Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), a ...