In this book you will read all about inventors, bright minds and other brilliant science heroes of South Africa. You'll read the stories of people who made medical breakthroughs. Stories about people who love animals and plants. Stories about people who try to understand the secrets of the sky. Stories about people who made interesting discoveries about fossils, the earth, water and the climate. This is a truly South African book that will inspire all readers to question, to explore and discover, and to create.

Engela Duvenage has a profound love for facts and stories. She completed an MPhil in Journalism from the University of Stellenbosch and for the past two decades she regularly writes for newspapers, magazines and research publicatons about science and the people behind it in South Africa. Amongst other things she compiles a research page for the Landbouweekblad and she writes a monthly column for the magazine Lig. Engela grew up in Oudtshoorn but for the past two decades she lives in Wellington in the Boland with her husband and two daughters.