No one story explains post Apartheid South Africa, a nation trying to enact political, economic and racial reconciliation, all at the same time. The towns of Riviersonderend, Ceres and Swellendam, located in the Western Cape province's rural farm belt, each offer radically different profiles of the nation, on this the tenth anniversary of South Africa's first democratic election in 1994. "We have got political freedom, but not economic freedom," declared Alan Thompson the Colored African National Congress deputy Mayor of Swellendam-the third oldest European-founded settlement in the country. Then he grinned stressing ANC success: "Structurally many things have changed, the streets have been tarred, housing has been built, there is electricity [in the townships]."