Tsietsi Mashinini: Elusive Hero of Soweto

Fifty years after the Soweto uprising, little is known about its most iconic youth leader, the elusive Tsietsi Mashinini, who instigated the schools' protest that changed South Africa forever. He later fled the country, shunned the ANC, shared a house with Miriam Makeba, married Miss Liberia—and was mysteriously murdered.

Now, in time for the anniversary, Sowetan author and social historian Sam Mathe—who knows the Mashinini family well—tells Tsietsi's full story for the first time.