A SEED OF A DREAM, Morris Isaacson High School and the struggle for education in Soweto, 1956-2012

258pp., b/w & colour illus., map, paperback, Johannesburg, 2024

A history of Morris Isaacson High School in Soweto, known as the epicentre of the 1976 Soweto uprising.  Despite the challenges of poverty, the repressive Bantu Education system and political unrest, the school nurtured generations of successful professionals throughout the 1960s and 1970s. 

Historian Clive Glaser lectures at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is the author of Bo-Tsotsi: The youth gangs of Soweto 1935–1976 and co-author of volume 6 in the series From Protest to Challenge, entitled Challenge and Victory, 1980–1990.