Xhosa women in Nelson Mandela's ancestral village, Mvezo, in the
old apartheid homeland of the Transkei, Eastern Cape

South Africa, Fifteen Years On

Photographer Benedicte Kurzen explores the state of the nation — from the wealthy malls of Johannesburg to the mud huts of the Eastern Cape — as South Africa approaches a critical national election

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