V Mini Legacy Route

Key Stops & Storylines:

1. Mendi Arts Centre – Where arts meet activism. Intro to Mini as cultural worker.

2. Emlotheni Memorial Site – Massacre site. Talk on 1952 Defiance Campaign + New Brighton’s role.

3. Limba Str > Avenue A > Sheya Kulati Dr – Walk the streets Mini organised in. Link to SACTU + MK.

4. Mendi Memorial Site – Honour WW1 troops. Connect military sacrifice to liberation struggle.

5. George Pemba Rd – Visual arts heritage. Pemba painted this community — show his works.

6. Indlela Mental Health Workshop – New layer: healing from trauma. Song as therapy. Mini’s music today.

7. Nguna Str > Left Connacher Str – Residential heartland of activists.

8. Vuyisile Mini House – External viewing. Story of his arrest, trial, execution 1964. “Naants’ indod’ emnyama, Verwoerd!”

9. Masangwana Str > Gratten Anglican Church – Faith + struggle. Churches as organising spaces.

10. Nomhle Nkonyeni Str > Methodist Memorial – Arts + activism. Nkonyeni was actor/activist.

11. Imbhizweni Square – Mass meetings site. End with a freedom song, same as meetings ended.

12. Return Mendi Arts Centre – Debrief, craft sales, tea.