South Africa’s most famous citizen, Nelson Mandela, grew up in the village of Qunu. Set in beautiful rolling hills where many of the inhabitants still wear traditional dress, this is a lovely place to picture Mandela’s childhood as a cowherd, as described in his autobiography. He returned and built a house here, the design of which, perversely, is said to be based on the house at Victor Verster prison in Paarl, where he spent the last years of his incarceration.