On 16 June 1976, thousands of Black South African school children took to the streets of  Soweto in protest against the introduction of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction under  apartheid education. Met with brutal police force, many never returned home. This pivotal  day, now remembered as the start of the Soweto Uprising, also reverberated through the  walls of 6001, Lebo Diseko’s family home in Orlando East.

In The House at 6001, Diseko traces the intertwined lives of her parents and her aunts and  uncles who gathered, organised and resisted within their four-room Soweto house. From  banning orders and exile to late-night parties filled with music and defiance, their story  captures both the intimacy and the enormity of South Africa’s struggle.

Drawing on unsealed government documents, interviews and her own personal journey to  revisit her family history and home, Diseko offers a moving memoir of resistance, secrets and the lasting cost of freedom.