If you're born a Malan in South Africa, prepare to be prominent. World War II Royal Air Force fighter pilot Sailor Malan was a champion of human rights in a society where they remain unachieved thanks to the evil perpetrated by people like DF Malan, the first prime minister of the apartheid state, which went through its death throes while the supreme commander of the armed forces and defence minister was Magnus Malan. Riaan Malan is a mad, bad, dangerous to know writer and musician whose searing 1990 memoir, "My Traitor's Heart", remains arguably the best book yet published in this country and unarguably the best dealing with those dark days. If you want to know the truth of what living and dying in South Africa was like then, read it.
THE STORY OF MALANS
The Malans' best has yet to come
Janneman Malan's unbeaten 129 helped South Africa seal the three-match ODI series versus Australia © Getty
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