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Nobel Square is a public square in theVictoria & Alfred Waterfront neighborhood ofCape Town,South Africa. It opened in December 2005 and includes sculptures of the country's fourNobel Peace Prize winners,Albert Lutuli,Desmond Tutu,F. W. de Klerk, andNelson Mandela. The square was the brainchild ofEbrahim Rasool,Premier of Western Cape from 2004 to 2008, and his predecessorMarthinus van Schalkwyk. Supported by thegovernment of the Western Cape, the project was launched after consultations with Lutuli's family and the still-living Prize winners, who attended the unveiling with Lutuli's daughter and theNorwegian Ambassador to South Africa. The statues, slightly taller than the four people depicted, are arranged in asemicircle with their backs toTable Mountain. Quotes of each figure are inscribed on the ground in front of them. A fifth sculpture, entitled "Peace and Democracy," represents the role of women and children in theanti-apartheid movement. All four sculptures arebronze and stand on a 386-m2granite surface. A competition invited ten artists from around South Africa to submit proposals, withClaudette Schreuders's entry inspiring the four sculptures of Nobel winners andNoria Mabasa's idea selected for "Peace and Democracy."[1][2][3][4]
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