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City hall

Constitutional Court of South Africa

Constitution Hill, 1 Hospital St, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, 2017

Modern courthouse built from bricks salvaged out of a demolished prison, preserving its stairwells.

This guide to South Africa's Constitutional Court traces how a demolition crew in the early 2000s salvaged roughly 150,000 bricks from the awaiting-trial block of Johannesburg's Old Fort prison, which once held Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, and students from the 1976 Soweto uprising. It follows those bricks and stairwells into the new courthouse, and Mandela's own three visits to this hill across his life. Look for the reused brick in the foyer and behind the judges' chairs.

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