The auction house Bonhams will be selling the so-called “artwork”, allegedly created in 2002 from Nelson Mandela’s ‘personal collection’ and estimates it to be worth between $60 000 to $90 000:
Mandela created the sketch along with 21 other sketches which were turned into lithographs and used in his series My Robben Island and Reflection of Robben Island.
However, The Celldoor was emotionally powerful and had symbolic meaning. As such, he kept the deeply personal piece to himself. After his death, it was inherited by his daughter, Dr Pumla Makaziwe Mandela.
Dr Makaziwe Mandela confirmed that the artwork was indeed very personal to her father, as painting had always been a means to relax and reflect. She explains:
“For him, painting was a way of relaxing, but also of making sense of the past. This work held a particular significance for him as it was a constant reminder that he could not forget what seemed unforgettable and that he should not take freedom for granted.”
The Director of Modern and Contemporary African Art at Bonhams, Giles Pappiatt said the “cultural gravitas that Mandela capture in his work is of great significance.” He sees the lock as being symbolic for hope and adds:
“[The lock shows] hope where previously there might have been none, the work demonstrates his indomitable spirit with characteristic honesty and clarity. This is the first time that a work by Nelson Mandela has come to market in the US, and we expect that it will resonate strongly.”
Madiba was sentenced to 27 years in prison and spent 18 of those years at Robben Island. His comments about these works were typically inspirational:
“It is true that Robben Island was once a place of darkness, but out of that darkness has come a wonderful brightness, a light so powerful that it could not be hidden behind prison walls, held back by prison bars or hemmed in by the surrounding sea.”
The cult of Nelson Mandela is a complete fabrication of the jewish-controlled, communist-friendly international media machine. By any reasonable standard of White civilization, Mandela should be rightly viewed for what he was, a domestic terrorist who belonged safely locked away in prison where he could not act on his racial animus toward Whites under the guise of “social justice” and “economic equality”, both euphemisms for Bolshevism.
This sketch allegedly by Mandela is worthless as “art”, and if it didn’t have Mandela’s signature on it, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to assume that an unremarkable child of ten or so had created it. But Mandela’s prison cell has been elevated to the same cultural status as the alleged gas chambers at Auschwitz, which is why people trapped in his cult of personality are willing to pay $300K for the “privilege” of spending a night in it, or to pay $90K for this childish doodle of his cell door. How much would his fans be willing to pay to hear him sing, “Kill The Boer”?
So we are supposed to believe that Mandela drew this cartoon of his alleged prison cell in 2002 when he was 84 years old? Laughable.
Mandela is the SA version of Michael King (AKA Martin Luther King Jr.). Both jewish controlled communist agitators, and nothing more, other than a cult of personality.
Scroll down at the link below to:
“How to be a Good Communist”
“The text of a handwritten manuscript by Nelson Mandela, produced as part of the evidence at his trial in 1963. All the accused, including Mandela, denied being communist saboteurs and terrorists. Many of his subsequent speeches and statements to this day, praising communist countries and their dictators while condemning the West, belie that claim.”
The text is at this link:
http://www.rhodesia.nl/onbook.htm
“Nelson Mandela and the rainbow nation”
[2 December 2007 – Die nuwe Suid-Afrika]
“And, as for you feminists, how about this one:
As far as I’m aware, Mandela has never made any objection to the widespread practice of female mutilation in South Africa, despite the many deaths that occur because of it.
Oh, and Johannesburg is the murder and rape capital of the world, and about 1 in 5 of all black, South African adults have AIDS. Indeed, Mandela’s own son died of this disease.
Now, none of smiley, smiley, tail-wagging, “let’s erect a statue of St. Nelson” brigade, ever told you any of this, did they?
Let’s take a peek at the stats:
In 1994, excluding attacks on smallholdings and plots, there were 442 raids by black gangs on rural South African farms.
These raids resulted in the deaths of 92 white farmers and/or members of their families.
In 1995, there were 551 such raids which resulted in the deaths of 121 white people.
In 1996, there were 468 such raids which resulted in the deaths of 109 white people.
In 1997, there were 434 such raids which resulted in the deaths of 84 white people.
In 1998, there were 827 such raids which resulted in the deaths of 145 white people.
In 1999, there were 834 such raids which resulted in the deaths of 136 white people.
In 2000, there were 902 such raids which resulted in the deaths of 142 white people.
And, up to October, 2001 there were 809 such raids which resulted in the deaths of 106 white people.
Thus, whilst Mandela was the President of South Africa, from May, 1994 until June, 1999, there was around 3,000 attacks on isolated white-owned farmsteads and almost 600 members of South Africa’s white farming community were slaughtered by rampaging, black gangs.
Why didn’t St. Nelson do something about this?
Why did he allow this to continue on his watch?
Why, when we saw him on television, was he always wreathed in smiles, as though he didn’t have a care in the world?
Why didn’t this “honest” communist tell us in the West what was really happening in his country?”
[Continues with more]
http://dienuwesuidafrika.blogspot.com/2007/12/nelson-mandela-and-rainbow-nation.html
Additional to the above which I should have added to that comment above from the very bottom of that long article [There is more in the other sections of it, too, along with images]:
“So, if you don’t like Communists, you really ought not to think all that much of Nelson Mandela.
For that matter, if you don’t like Jews, you shouldn’t be too enamoured of the South African Saint either. You see, all of the twelve Mandelian appointees, from Slovo to Sachs were not black folk, they were Jews.
The official oppostion to Mandela’s ANC, when they came to power, was the Democratic Party, whose big wheels at the time were Tony Leon, Helen Suzman and Harry Schwartz.
These three are also Jewish.
At the time, the Democratic Party was being bankrolled by the richest man in South Africa, the multi-billionaire, Harry Oppenheimer. Who, as you might have guessed, is also Jewish.
Ironically, the Byzantine nature of Judaic politics in Mandelaland was starkly evidenced during the handover of power, when the ageing Oppenheimer let it slip that it was he who had been “the quiet engine running the ANC for all these years.”