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© 2002 Gideon Mendel from a Day in the Life of Africa
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| An army of community volunteers sweeps through a neighborhood in Khayelitsha, a vast South African township of nearly 2 million people that sprawls across the sandy flats near Cape Town. Khayelitsha was created in the 1980s to permit "controlled squatting" by rural blacks who migrated to the Cape Province in record numbers.
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|  | | | South African/London Born in Johannesburg in 1959, Mendel studied psychology and African history at the University of Cape Town. He photographed change and conflict in South Africa in the days leading to Nelson Mandela's release from prison. In 1990 he moved to London and joined Network Photographers. He has been addressing the subject of AIDS in Africa since 1993, and over the past decade has received a number of awards, including six from World Press Photo and the POY Canon Photo Essay Award. | | | | | | | 
