The NFT version of the 61-year old original arrest warrant of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela gets auctioned off for 1.9M ZAR, approximately $130k on the NFT platform Momint.
The proceeds from the sale will benefit the Liliesleaf Museum Heritage Site, which got the original document as a donation in 2004, according to Ahren Posthumus, CEO of Momint.
This helps the “museum sites stay afloat. They have been badly affected by the lack of tourism due to Covid. So this is a way to revitalize their flow and keep history alive” Posthumus said in an interview.
The document auctioned off as an NFT is the arrest warrant’s first and only NFT version. The first buyer of this NFT will be entitled to 5% of all subsequent sales for the rest of their life.
From 1961, Liliesleaf farm, on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa was used as the African National Congress’s secret headquarters, where Mandela and other party officials hid from police. During a police raid in 1963, several prominent activists were detained.
