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Winnie's Brandfort house to become museum
The house in Brandfort where Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was banished to from 1977 to 1987, is to become a museum, library and guest house. Ms Madikizela-Mandela is looking for the gifts that were sent to her by people such as the Kennedys, to add to the house at 802 Maroka Street in Phutakhahle. The missing gifts include books, artefacts and paintings, confiscated by the state at that time. M.K. Malefane, her personal assistant from 1980 to 1985, and who also lived in the house, is heading the project.