Is this the most ghoulish tourist attraction in the world? Gallows where 3,500 were hanged declared a national monument in South Africa

Martha Mahlangu can't bear to visit the prison where her son, an anti-apartheid guerrilla, was hanged. 


But she says it's important that other South Africans see the gallows the government opened as a monument today, and contemplate the example her son set.

'Solomon only thought of freedom, to free the black man,' she said in an interview in her Pretoria home. 'He never thought of himself, only about seeing the black man free.'    More Read