Arthur Chaskalson: A Life Dedicated to All is a biography of a remarkable life lived in service both to law and to the struggle for social change and justice. The social change it describes is the victory over apartheid, which was won on several fronts and through the efforts of people in may nations, but an important one of those fronts lay in the courts of South Africa itself.

Arthur Chaskalson's life story and the four phases of his remarkable career - advocate at the Johannesburg Bar; founder and leader of the Legal Resource Centre; his involvement in the constitution-making process; and his term as the first president and then Chief Justice of South Africa's Constitutional Court - embody the story of law in the struggle against apartheid and then in a newly created democracy. At the same time, Chaskalson's chronicle is also individual, the shaping of the moral intelligence of a lawyer and a judge, trusted by everyone he dealt with through the fires of a lifetime's opposition to a society's injustice.

In exploring Chaskalson's life and career, we appreciate more clearly the roles lawyers can play in social change and the achievement of a just social order, and at the same time we gain insight into the combination of upbringing, experience and character that shapes a man first into a 'cause lawyer' and then into a path-breaking and foundation-laying judge.

Zanele is skipping school and secretly plotting against the apartheid government. The police can't know. Her mother and sister can't know. Her best Thabo, schoolboy turned tsotsi, can tell she's up to something. But he has troubles of his own - a deal gone wrong and some powerful enemies.

Across the bridge, in the wealthy white suburbs, Jack plans to spend his last days in Johannesburg before leaving for university burning miles on his beat-up Mustang - until he meets a girl with an unforgettable face from a black township on the edge of revolt - Soweto.

Meena, the daughter of an Indian shopkeeper, finds a packet of banned pamphlets. They lead to a mysterious black girl with a secret, a dangerous gangster with expensive taste in clothes, and an engaging white boy who drives a battered red car.

A series of chance meetings changes everything. A chain of events is set in motion - a failed plot, a murdered teacher, and a secret movement of students that has spread across the township.

And the students will rise.

Mr Hare finds a R200 note on his doorstep. When he turns the note over he sees Mr Mandela's face and decides to brave the big city of Johannesburg to return it to Mandela.

But Mr Hare cannot read and he comes across many people along the way who want to get their hands on Mr Mandela's money.