Lessons from Past Heroes: How the rejection of victimhood dogmas will save South Africa

What can be learned from black South Africans who achieved success before South Africa became a democracy in 1994? What are the challenges they faced, and how did they overcome them? And, today, how have South Africans benefited from the country's democratic system of governance?

These are the questions Phumlani M. Majozi explores and attempts to answer in Lessons from Past Heroes.

He traces black people's success and political activity back to the early 1900s; successful men and women who sp...