SCENE ONE

INT. EARLY MORNING. DOORNKOP Mpumalanga
We are in the small town of Middelburg in what was then known as the Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga) at the Mahlangu homestead. It is 10 July 1956 and Ms Martha Mahlangu has given birth to a baby boy, Solomon. He is the fourth child of six siblings. Soon the family moves from rural Middelburg area to Mamelodi outside Pretoria. Here he attends Ndima Lower Primary School and later Mamelodi High School.