Address at the launch of the Luthuli Legacy Project / Thabo Mbeki -- Introduction / Kader Asmal -- The home of my fathers -- A Christian upbringing -- Life at Adams College -- "No grazing in white pastures" -- The call of my village -- Peasants and townsmen -- Two journeys abroad -- Whose is South Africa? -- The Hertzog bills -- The programme of action -- Defiance and deposition -- When the chain breaks -- After defiance -- Bans -- The freedom charter -- The treason trials begin -- The long walk -- We regroup -- A huge deceit -- Which route to freedom? -- Postcript: The tempo quickens.