Footprints and fingerprints includes a wide selection of Mabuza's poems from a period of over thirty years. In this collection she explores the nature of South Africa's journey to democracy and her own personal role in the struggle. Mabuza firmly states her beliefs, intelligently explores the sensitivities of the struggle, takes issue with weak leaders and celebrates the strong. She opens herself up and speaks of love in various moods, and her faith that love will 'breed new life'. This collection of poems that remembers South Africa's painful past, and celebrates our exciting future.