Mqhekezweni - Mandela's Ancestral Home, OR Tambo District, Eastern Cape

Coordinates: -31.8146, 28.5551
Updated: 11 Oct 2024

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Declared a National Heritage Site by the South African Government, Mqhekezweni is a very significant early great place of the Abathembu nation under King Dalindyebo, it was the home of the regent King Jongintaba Mtirara who took responsibility in grooming the young Nelson Mandela after the death of his father. "Mqhekezweni was a mission station of the Methodist Church and far more up to date and Westernised than Qunu. Mandela recalled this in his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom." Mqhekezweni project aim is to sensitize communities, and youth in particular, to the value of protecting heritage sites, and preserving and restoring cultural immovable property.

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South African History Online. (2024, August 2). Mqhekezweni - Mandela's Ancestral Home, OR Tambo District, Eastern Cape. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/nr/ref/P-0152805

South African History Online (2024) 'Mqhekezweni - Mandela's Ancestral Home, OR Tambo District, Eastern Cape', South African History Online, 2 August. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/nr/ref/P-0152805 (Accessed: 22 July 2026).

South African History Online, Mqhekezweni - Mandela's Ancestral Home, OR Tambo District, Eastern Cape [website], https://sahistory.org.za/nr/ref/P-0152805, (accessed 22 July 2026).

"Mqhekezweni - Mandela's Ancestral Home, OR Tambo District, Eastern Cape." South African History Online, 2 Aug. 2024, https://sahistory.org.za/nr/ref/P-0152805. Accessed 22 July 2026.

South African History Online. "Mqhekezweni - Mandela's Ancestral Home, OR Tambo District, Eastern Cape." South African History Online. August 2, 2024. https://sahistory.org.za/nr/ref/P-0152805.