New Brighton was at the heart of the ’76 student uprising for equal education in then-Port Elizabeth but, ironically, or perhaps unsurprisingly, it was home to a Calvinist community that took pride in what they had.

Former political activist and now top SA businessman Sipho Pityana, 63, who grew up in a single parent home in Stokwe Street in Nelson Mandela Bay’s oldest township, said this ethic had extended through every facet of their lives...