A statue of Nelson Mandela stands at the gates of Groot Drakenstein prison, outside Paarl, in South Africa's Western Cape province, his fist raised in triumph as it was when he walked free from the jail in 1990. Apartheid was sagging and his African National Congress was in the ascent. Now, after 14 years of rule and amid growing factional strains, the ruling anc has for the first time been thrashed at the polls.
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