Fascinating conflict in South Africa between humanism and idealism, and what happens when politics and religion get in the way (when do they not?). The painting is hanging in a mall in Johannesburg, and here's what the artist says about it:

"The idea just popped up in my head," he told the Guardian today . "We have Nelson Mandela, one of the great leaders of our time, and the politicians around him are trying to find out what makes him a great man. Nkosi Johnson [an AIDS activist who died at age 12], the only one in the painting who's no longer alive, is trying to show them that Mandela is just a man. So they should stop searching and get on with building the country."

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