Where South Africa’s fallen statues go to rest

Pretoria - Beneath two of Pretoria’s most iconic heritage sites – the Voortrekker Monument and the Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History – are sprawling high-security archives dedicated to the preservation of South Africa’s discarded monuments, City Press reported.

Cecilia Kruger is senior manager of conservation at The Heritage Foundation – a section 21 company tasked with cultural preservation, maintenance and installation – and Etta Judson is curator and manager of museum services at the Voortrekker Monument.

They show City Press into the climate-controlled area that houses the monuments, a massive collection of Afrikaner memorabilia and cultural artefacts.