U.S. senator Barack Obama looks through the prison bars of former South African President Nelson Mandela's cell on Robben island in Cape Town, South Africa, August 20, 2006. REUTERS/Howard Burditt (SOUTH AFRICA)
U.S. senator Barack Obama looks through the prison bars of former South African President Nelson Mandela's cell on Robben island in Cape Town, South Africa, August 20, 2006. REUTERS/Howard Burditt (SOUTH AFRICA)
Woman dressed in the colours of the ruling African National Congress and showing a portrait of former President Nelson Mandela attend a gathering in Pretoria, South Africa, as thousands of people, mainly women, marched to government headquarters Wednesday Aug. 9, 2006, in a festive re-enactment of a famed anti-apartheid protest by women against the old regime's racial segregation policies 50 years ago. The anniversary celebrations were tinged by the recognition that women in the new democratic South Africa are the worst hit by poverty, bear the brunt of the HIV/AIDS crisis and suffer from the world's highest rates of domestic violence and rape. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)