South Africa, Fifteen Years On

Xhosa women in Nelson Mandela's ancestral village, Mvezo, in the
old apartheid homeland of the Transkei, Eastern Cape
Benedicte Kurzen / VII Mentor for TIME

A Long Road To Freedom
Xhosa women in Nelson Mandela's ancestral village, Mvezo, in the old apartheid homeland of the Transkei, Eastern Cape. Despite being the ANC's "heartland" — a place from where the party drew much of its support and many of its leaders — life here has changed little under 15 years of ANC rule.

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