Leon Jamarie - 9 November 2011
Nobel Square at the V&A Waterfront is dedicated to South Africa's four Nobel Peace Prize winners (from left to right): Albert Luthuli, Desmond Tutu, FW de Klerk and Nelson Mandela. The iconic Table Mountain is in the background. Photo courtesy bigbluemeanie
The Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory yesterday endorsed the campaign on its website. Nelson Mandela, who along with Vote for Table Mountain Ambassadors FW de Klerk and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, is a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is Founder of the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory. Table Mountain played a significant role while he was incarcerated on Robben Island. He was quoted on 5 June 1998, while declaring Table Mountain as part of the Cape Peninsula National Park, as saying: “To us on Robben Island, Table Mountain was a beacon of hope. It represented the mainland to which we knew we would one day return.”
Voting closes this Friday at 13h07. Do you know that it has been estimated that should Table Mountain become one of the New7Wonders of Nature, it will not only contribute R1.4-billion to the economy, but also create approximately 11 000 jobs? Help make this a reality before time runs out. Vote now:
Visit www.votefortablemountain.com, vote via MXit for 20c, or SMS “Table” to 34874 at R2 an SMS.
Go to www.facebook.com/New7WondersofNature, “Like” the page, click on “Vote Now”, select your top seven wonders and click “Send your vote”.
If you vote via SMS or MXit, you can vote as many times as you like.
Join thousands of other tweeters in the build-up to the announcement by using #N7Wresults when tweeting, and make your way to the V&A Amphitheatre this Friday to celebrate our mountain.
