Mosotho man claims he owns iconic car which drove Mandela from prison in 1990
A man from Maseru, Lesotho, claims he owns the iconic silver Toyota Cressida which ferried Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela from the then-Victor Verster Prison in Paarl to the Cape Town City Hall on February 11, 1990.According to the SABC the man, who was not named, claimed he bought the vehicle for R48 000 from a car dealer in Durban in 2009.The man claimed that the dealership contacted him a few months later wanting to buy back the vehicle for R500 000.He told Lesotho Times that a Mr Krishnapersadh, who owned the car dealership, said he and his friend Major John William Harding, who…
