David Turnley - Mandela's Children

David Turnley - Mandela's Children [Return to Feature]

Justice Jongintaba's grandson holds up a portrait of Nelson Mandela wearing his first suit, taken during his college years.

Matthew Pearce waits for a train home from Bishops, a private school in Capetown, during the apartheid period. Though apartheid prohibited blacks from living in white areas, many worked in white homes.

Nelson Mandela visits the Robben Island cell where he spent 19 years in prison in 1994.

Show More Images

Return to David Turnley - Mandela's Children

South African police use horsewhips to disperse protesters marching on Pollsmoor Prison, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned. This was one of the events that precipitated the State of Emergency in South Africa in 1985.

A man suspected of being a police informant narrowly escapes being killed when a crowd put a gasoline-filled car tire around his neck during a political funeral in the Orange Free State. This method of revenge killing became known as necklacing.

Thousands gather at a funeral in Duncan Village, outside of East London, in 1985. Mass funerals were the only places in which blacks were permitted to gather in a political fashion.

Like thousands of black Africans, the husband in this Transkei couple travels to Johannesburg to work in the mines: he spends 11 months a year in the mines, and one month at home.

Show More Images

Return to David Turnley - Mandela's Children

A boy walks by a wall graffitied during apartheid.

Scene in a squatter camp outside Johannesburg. Squatter camps, or shack towns, arose as blacks moved from the countryside in search of jobs in or near cities.

Under the Group Areas Act, all blacks had to carry pass books like this one. One of the tenants of apartheid was that every black had to be a citizen of one of the black homelands.

The Reverend Alan Boesak leads a man to safety during a mass political funeral in the Eastern Cape, March 1986. The man was suspected by the crowd of being a police informer.

Show More Images

Return to David Turnley - Mandela's Children

A young girl studies by candlelight because her rural Transkei home lacks electricity.

A domestic worker takes time with her children in their quarters in an Afrikaner farmhouse in the Orange Free State during apartheid.

Winnie Mandela, then known to her supporters around the world as the "mother of the nation," mourns with the widows of young men killed in a township confrontation with South African police, mid-1980s.

A woman walks from her home in an Afrikaner farm in the Orange Free State to work as a domestic for white farmers.

Show More Images

Return to David Turnley - Mandela's Children

Nelson Mandela campaigns for the presidency weeks before standing in South Africa's first democratic elections, 1984.

Two days after his release from prison, Mandela sits with wife Winnie in the backyard of their home in Orlando West.

Mandela sits for press photographers in the backyard of his Orlando West house on the day after his release from prison. On seeing the cameras, Mandela joked, "Are these weapons?"

Mandela campaigns for the presidency in South Africa in 1994.

Show More Images

Return to David Turnley - Mandela's Children

Accompanied by Archbishop Tutu, Nelson Mandela greets his people in Soweto days after his release from prison.

South Africans of all ages supported Nelson Mandela's candidacy for president in 1994.

A priest stands in front of the church in Qunu where Mandela was baptized when he was 11.

These young Xhosa men are returning from the bush after their circumcision ceremony.

Show More Images

Return to David Turnley - Mandela's Children

Stick fighters joust in the afternoon. Stick fighting is a Xhosa tradition that Mandela excelled at in his youth.

A Zulu miner in Soweto is arrested near his workers' hostel on suspicion of shooting at ANC supporters, 1994.

IFP members, predominantly gold miners, march through the streets of Johannesburg in March 1984.

A woman helps an elderly man vote in South Africa's first democratic election, April 1994.

Show More Images

Return to David Turnley - Mandela's Children

The South Africa rugby team poses during the filming of a television commercial in Johannesburg, 1994.

Students return from a recess at a private school in Johannesburg.

Nelson Mandela strides through the lime quarry on Robben Island where he and the other political prisoners were forced to work. 1994.

With his wife Winnie, Nelson Mandela meets Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Joseph Kennedy at the Kennedy Library on their first visit to the United States in 1990.

Show More Images

Return to David Turnley - Mandela's Children

ANC supporters rally in a football stadium in the black homeland of Bophuthatswana in Botswana.

Nelson Mandela revisits the cell on Robben Island where he spent 19 years in prison.