Jonathan Torgovnik’s photographs on assignment for TIME of people watching Nelson Mandela’s funeral on television in Alexandra township, in Johannesburg, one of the poorest urban areas in all of South Africa, on December 15, 2013. Residents shared their feelings and thoughts on beloved Madiba’s legacy on the day the former president was buried in his boyhood village, Qunu.
South Africa’s Poor Tune In to Mandela’s Funeral
Jonathan Torgovnik / Reportage by Getty Images for TIME
"I feel sad that Mandela is gone now, he was everything to us, he gave us freedom and education." - Caroline Euthi, 49.
