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From where we're standing now on our left

it's the old prison with political prisoners we kept

and on our right is then the new structure

the South African Constitutional Court.

Constitution Hill, they wanted to create a space that looks both back and forward

so the one side is an old prison.

The new structure is South Africa's constitutional court

which is the most forward-looking constitution in the world

so to try to give South African's a sense of where they come from

and what the constitution allows and where they can go.

So it's an interesting space.

I mean prominent names were L.J. including Nelson Mandela himself

before he was shipped off to Robin Ireland.

I think this is the last prison where he spent his time

but there's a full history of struggle heroes who are here.

The struggle was bigger than one man.

Not everyone has made it into the history books but at least here

you can get a sense of who was involved and some of the names.

We're kind of writing into existence you know narratives that were erased

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