Heritage

Gauteng Memorials

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”
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
She was banned for almost two decades and spent that time under house arrest in Soweto, where she sewed to earn a living
The shy Indian lawyer who led the first public burning of the hated passes that people of colour had to carry under apartheid
The man who found the Missing Link but struggled to convince a sceptical scientific community of the importance of his discovery
The charismatic schoolboy who led the first students from a Soweto high school to start the June 1976 uprising