Titus Mashaba, born on October 10, 1961, in Mamelodi East, Pretoria, is the third child of Joseph and Mary Mashaba. He attended Zakhele Lower Primary School and Mamelodi High School. In 1991, he began his career at Makro and pursued higher education, earning a Diploma in Management from UNISA, a Certificate in Labour Law from the University of Johannesburg, and an MBA from Regent Business School. Driven by a deep connection to his roots, Mashaba captures the history of Mamelodi in this work, detailing its origins, the challenges of the apartheid era, and its socio-political evolution into the present day.