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On a nondescript piece of road along the R103, roughly 5 kilometres outside of Howick in 1962, the history of South Africa was forever altered.
It was here that Nelson Mandela, pretending to be a chauffeur was arrested by armed apartheid police after having successfully evaded capture for 17 months. Upon his return from a cloak-and-dagger visit with the then ANC President Chief Albert Luthuli in Groutville, Mandela was captured at this otherwise ordinary location on 5 August 1962.
The Nelson Mandela Capture site is now renowned for the sculpture that marks its location. Consisting of 50 steel columns varying in length from 6 to 9.5 metres high along a 30-metre length. If you were to see this assortment of steel poles in anywhere but the intended viewing space you'd likely miss the sculpture altogether. This underlines the simultaneous randomness and importance of the location.
To see the Mandela image, visitors need to head into the Mandela Capture site and approach the laser-cut steel columns from 30 metres. The 50 linear vertical steel columns line up and create the illusion of a flat two-dimensional image.
This magical creation of Madiba’s portrait is meant to metaphorically announce his return to this site where 50 years prior (at the time of the Capture Site’s launch) he disappeared from the view of the world. The powerful sculpture was introduced into the silent space of the Midlands landscape of KwaZulu-Natal on a piece of road that forever altered the course of South African history.
One of the artists, Marco Cianfanell, commenting on the piece stated that this represents the momentum gained in the struggle through the symbolic of Mandela’s capture. The 50 columns represent the 50 years since his capture, but they also suggest the idea of many making the whole; of solidarity. It points to an irony as the political act of Mandela’s incarceration cemented his status as an icon of struggle, which helped ferment the groundswell of resistance, solidarity and uprising, bringing about political change and democracy”.
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