Mandela’s relatives, rural families get help to collect drinking water 150 Hippo Rollers donated to residents of Qunu and nearby coastal villages The late Nelson Mandela s home in Qunu, in the Eastern Cape. File photo. Image: TEBOGO LETSIE
The long walk to freedom just got a bit shorter in the childhood home village of Nelson Mandela, where some of his relatives have been gifted a device to fetch water more easily.
In his autobiography, Mandela famously described the daily grind of growing up in the rural Eastern Cape village of Qunu. Now Qunu neighbours Evelyn Mandela, 82, and Nothemba Mandela, 71, can use new “Hippo Rollers” to move plastic buckets of water up from the river thanks to a charity infusion into the rural Eastern Cape last week.