Two new bronze statues of Nelson Mandela will be unveiled in the Eastern Cape on Mandela Day, which commemorates his birthday on 18 July.

One is outside the Nelson Mandela Museum in Mthatha, the other in Qunu, the village where Madiba spent his childhood. The two statues cost R3-million.

There are at least 40 statues of Mandela around the world. The tallest figurative sculpture is at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, which is 9 meters high.

Mandela was South Africa’s first democratically elected president. Note – Edited to clarify that the Union Building sculpture is world’s tallest figurative statue.