South Africa has celebrated Nelson Mandela by crafting numerous statues and portraits of the country's first black president. Now there's a sculpture of the late leader's signature shirt.

Having spent 27 years in jail, the hero of the fight against white-minority rule and South Africa’s soon-to-be president needed new clothes. Ndamase met Mandela in his home Johannesburg’s Soweto.

In his workshop stocked with piles of fabric and sewing machines, Sonwabile Ndamase is proud that the Madiba shirts he designed for Nelson Mandela 30 years ago endure as a legacy of South Africa's ...