Nelson Mandela was arrested when he was 44 years old and got out of jail with 71. At the prison cell of Robben Island, where he hardly could spread out, he “lived” for 19 years. He was the commandant and symbol of a fight of the black people against the Apartheid, of white domain. In 1994 he was elected president of South Africa and in 1999 he left the function without trying a reelection.

There will be only one Nelson Mandela. He emancipated his people, but not everyone, because there are slaves in his country yet, whom he does not know. If he knew them, he would not allow this. Retired at his modest house, he would begin a new fight to put an end, in his country, in the humiliation of slavery, which he faced for more than 70 years.

Not very far away of where he was born, at Cape Town, there is a place where slavery is practiced against other kind of humans, as we considered them to be: the primates. At Monkey Town, a private zoo, dozens of primates led by three young female chimpanzees live their hell. Slavered by their owners, who explore them with public visitation, they drink water from sewage disposal, sleep on the floor and live in cells that remind the one that Mandela suffered being imprisoned in for 19 years of his life.

Monkey Town, at Cape Town, must be closed and the primates must be relocated to places where they can be decent treated, not being human slaves anymore.

Here there is a video that shows terrible images of that hell, located a few kilometers away of where some World Cup games will take place.

As Mandela used to say over and over during his fight against Apartheid, “THIS IS NOT RIGHT…”.

Dr. Pedro A Ynterian
President, GAP Project International