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Editorial JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

AFP

To fund a program to help prisoners, nothing makes more sense than to end a night in one of the most famous cells of the country. world. It has to do with that occupied by the South African icon of the struggle against the apartheid regime (system of racial segregation in South Africa and Namibia in force until 1992), Nelson Mandela

. CEO, who has made himself known by selling to the highest bidder, entrepreneurs and billionaires of the planet nights in unusual places, with the objective of funding for-profit works.

"No sale of this type took place in South Africa", announces the foundation on its website. "The biggest bidder will have the honor of spending a night in the historic cell with number 7, where Mandela has spent 18 years," continues the dormant CEO.

Located on Robben Island, in front of Cape Town, this cold cement cube, 2.4m by 2.1m, where "the first black president of the history of South Africa ( 1994-1999) "rotten", It is part of one of the most famous prisons on the planet.

World Heritage of Unesco, this place is visited each year by more than 300 000 people

After putting billionaires asleep in 2016 under a bridge in Johannesburg, in an initiative to help the homeless, the foundation chose this year to create an event around the 100th anniversary of Nelson Mandela on July 18th.

The starting price for tonight is $ 250,000, according to the CEO Sleepout, and has already reached 300,000.

It was also announced that the July 16 will be announced to the lucky guest.

The character of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Mvezo, South African Union, July 18, 1918-Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa, December 5, 2013) was a lawyer, anti-apartheid activist, politician, and South African philanthropist who served as president of his country from 1994 to 1999. He was the first black president to head the executive branch. and the first to be elected by universal suffrage in his country. He was 27 years in prison in different prisons. (1963-1990)