My South Africa is the working-class man who called from the airport to return a wallet without a cent missing, the white woman who funded her domestic worker’s children’s education at the same school as her own, and the Mpumalanga politician who returned his salary to the government as a statement of solidarity with the poor. It is the teacher who taught after school hours during a public sector strike to ensure her students’ learning continued, and the first-year university student in Bloemfontein who donated her birthday gifts to a children’s home in an