South African cricket’s lost son
The man who made Orlando Pirates into the soccer giant it is today
The queen of African pop, and a “once-in-a-generation artist”
Dubbed the “Jewel of District Six” by those who benefited from her campaigns on behalf of the poor
The story of torture and murder at John Vorster Square police station
The first black advocate at the Johannesburg Bar who got caught in the web of apartheid’s bizarre laws
The Eastern Cape prophet and the story of the Bulhoek Massacre
From London to Cape Town, and the aviation pioneers who made it happen
One of South Africa’s most talented, but unrecognised, artists
A troubled young writer whose poem, Die Kind (The Child), foretold the consequences of the Sharpeville Massacre
She was banned for almost two decades and spent that time under house arrest in Soweto, where she sewed to earn a living
The story of a song that became the anthem of the apartheid resistance movement
The shy Indian lawyer who led the first public burning of the hated passes that people of colour had to carry under apartheid
A world-famous novelist but also a tireless campaigner for the vote for women of all races
One of the most bizarre inventions of the apartheid government
The man who found the Missing Link but struggled to convince a sceptical scientific community of the importance of his discovery
A chaplain in the South African Native Labour Corps who rallied hundreds of servicemen when their ship sank during World War I
A piece of graffiti that appeared in the wake of the “Purple March” in 1989 and that rang the knell for apartheid
The charismatic schoolboy who led the first students from a Soweto high school to start the June 1976 uprising