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Use for: Republic of Zambia, Northern Rhodesia

• Island situated in Table Bay, 7 kilometres off the coast of Cape Town, measuring approximately 3.3 kilometres long and 1.9 kilometres wide. Has predominantly been used as a place of banishment and imprisonment, particularly for political prisoners, since Dutch settlement in the seventeenth century. Three men who later became South African presidents have been imprisoned there: Nelson Mandela (1964–1982), Kgalema Motlanthe (1977–1987) and Jacob Zuma (1963–1973). Now a World Heritage Site and museum.

• was part of the Cape Province prior to 1994

• The building housing the president’s office in Cape Town, the legislative capital and seat of parliament.

Use for: Drakenstein Correctional Centre

• Victor Verster Prison was renamed in 2000 to Drakenstein Correction Centre
• Low-security prison located between Paarl and Franschhoek in the Western Cape. Mandela was transferred there in 1988 from Pollsmoor Prison, and lived in a private house inside the prison compound. There is a statue of Mandela just outside the prison gates. Now named Drakenstein Correctional Centre.

• The buildings housing the office of the President in Pretoria, the country’s administrative capital.