Nelson Mandela

Week of Jan. 7, 1991
"Nelson Mandela became the stuff of legend while languishing in South African jails for 27 years, seen only by his guards, his family and a handful of friends," TIME reports. But since his release in February, violence plagues South Africa's blacks, and Mandela the man does not measured up to the myth.

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