JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s agonizing past swept over Alex McLaren, who stepped into sunlight with tears in his eyes after a tour of the Apartheid Museum, an unsparing study of white minority rule and the costly fight against it.

Yet South Africa-born McLaren, an American citizen, also found inspiration in the museum’s exhibition about Nelson Mandela, former prisoner, South Africa’s first black head of state and one of the great, unifying figures of the 20th century.

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