The spy pen gun is believed to have been gifted to Tambo by the East Germans, to help protect Tambo from any would-be assassins, during the mid 1980s. The spy pen gun is due to be auctioned at a live NFT auction on 11 November 2021 in Cape Town, South Africa. Blockchain company Virtual Nation Builders has tokenized the spy pen NFT and its uniqueness has been independently certified with a crypto asset number. All net proceeds of the sale will be used to help save the Liliesleaf Museum in Johannesburg, which has been hard-hit by the lockdown and COVID-19. The spy pen gun NFT is not the actual artifact, but a digital photorealistic image of the actual spy pen gun which is stored safely within the Lilliesleaf Museum archives and is not accessible to viewings by the public.

Source: The North Africa Journal November 09, 2021 00:47 UTC