{"id":256633,"date":"2018-07-04T15:38:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T13:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=256633"},"modified":"2018-07-05T08:35:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T06:35:20","slug":"heres-how-much-it-will-cost-to-spend-a-night-in-mandelas-robben-island-cell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wealth\/256633\/heres-how-much-it-will-cost-to-spend-a-night-in-mandelas-robben-island-cell\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s how much it will cost to spend a night in Mandela&#8217;s Robben Island cell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Update<\/strong>: Robben Island management has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/m.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/nelson-mandelas-cell-not-up-for-auction-at-ceo-sleepout-robben-island-20180704\">slammed<\/a> <\/strong>reports that former president Nelson Mandela&#8217;s cell will be auctioned at this year&#8217;s CEO SleepOut. The CEO Sleepout has since removed the page.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Charity group, the CEO SleepOut, has announced that it will holding a special event in honour of former president Nelson Mandela&#8217;s 100th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Set to take place on Wednesday 18 July 2018, 67 people will be given the opportunity to spend the night in the old maximum-security prison, courtyard and the small garden, which Mandela maintained during his during his 18-year prison sentence.<\/p>\n<p>To participate in the SleepOut there is a mandatory pledge of R150,000. In addition, to be eligible to participate, the company host must be a:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>C-Suite executive of a company of any size: board member, chairperson, CEO, CFO, CIO, financial director or president.<\/li>\n<li>A senior executive of any large company: managing director, managing partner, vice president.<\/li>\n<li>A board member representing partners, stakeholders, sponsors or friends of the SleepOut movement.<\/li>\n<li>Each company host may bring 4 distinguished guests, who embody Madiba\u2019s leadership and humanitarian qualities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As part of the event, a historic auction will also be held which will allow the highest bidder to win the honour of spending the night inside the historic Cell Number 7 &#8211; where Mandela spent 18 years.<\/p>\n<p>Bidding for this auction opens at <strong>$250,000<\/strong> (R3,420,875) and will close on Tuesday 17 July 2018 at midnight.<\/p>\n<p>A portion of the funds raised from this auction will be awarded to the Prison-To-College Pipeline (P2CP) , an innovative education programme that was begun in New York, the group said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wealth\/239999\/what-the-new-mandela-coins-look-like\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What the new R50 Mandela coins look like<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charity group, the CEO Sleepout, has announced that it will holding a special event in honour of former president Nelson Mandela&#8217;s 100th birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":256641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9880],"tags":[10321,26],"class_list":["post-256633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wealth","tag-ceo-sleepout","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256633"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256719,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256633\/revisions\/256719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}