The Secret Thread: Personal journeys beyond apartheid, published by Unisa Press, South Africa, as part of its Hidden Histories Series, is a social history reflecting on the power of travel. The book brings together the experiences of some of the more than 300 people who received small grants to travel beyond the barriers created by apartheid, between 1964 and 1994, to see their own and other communities in a different light. The study tours were made possible by the Christian Fellowship Trust (CFT), co-founded by Dr Beyers Naudé in 1964. The CFT, a ‘legally subversive’ organisation, drove a ‘Trojan Horse’ into the citadel of apartheid theology. The CFT recognised travel…