In South Africa, Nelson Mandela is everywhere. The country’s currency bears his smiling face, at least 32 streets are named for him and nearly two dozen statues in his image watch over a country in flux. Every year on July 18, his birthday, South Africans celebrate Mandela Day by volunteering for 67 minutes painting schools, knitting blankets, or cleaning up city parks in honor of the 67 years that Mr. Mandela spent serving the country as an anti-apartheid leader, much of it behind bars.
Many South Africans, especially young people, believe that Mandela did not do enough to create structural changes that would lift the fortunes of the country’s black majority
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Nelson Mandela is revered worldwide and celebrated on July 18, his birthday. But at home, a younger generation is disillusioned with the country, his party and the anti-apartheid leader, too.