Mandela’s Village: Rural poverty endures
Nowest Nompoko back at her home in Mvezo after fetching water from the Mbashe River. The village, where Nelson Mandela was born in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province, only has one water tap, which is often broken. (Erin Conway-Smith/GlobalPost)
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