the 32 year old father of two daughters is an activist of the Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee. The organisation was found by citizens of the biggest South African township, when the to be privatised electricity supplier ESKOM intro-duced massive electricity cut-offs of households, that couldn’t afford to pay their electricity bills anymore, which was the majority in Soweto. Bongani and his friends launched Operation Kanyesa (Kanyesa is a Zulu word and means: “Lights on!”) to help the affected families simply by reconnecting them back to electricity. Because of his engagement Bongani became very popular in Soweto but also made a lot of enemies, amongst others ESKOM and the members of the governing party ANC.“I’m not afraid of the prison anymore”, he says. “I always prepare my family that one time they might get a call that says: I’m dead.”