Under the Rainbow

Adam Khuinana doesn't complain about his neighbors being evicted so their homes could be demolished to make way for a visitor center. He doesn't even object that he'll soon be forced to move, too. Khuinana's family of five lives in the teeming Johannesburg township of Alexandra — in the same small, dark room, to be exact, where Nelson Mandela lived as a young student in the 1940s. Now the South African government is turning Mandela's former home into a museum. Khuinana will go, but thinks he could have at least been offered the contract to haul away the rubble. "I'm lucky...

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