For some apartheid struggle heroes who lived in New Brighton in the 1970s, fighting the regime was not a conscious decision — circumstances thrust them into politics as they strived for a better future. 

Struggle veteran Nceba Faku, 68, said it was not until 1974, when his brother returned home for the holidays from a tactical school in King William’s Town that he told them about the Black Consciousness Movement and why they needed to join the South African Students Movement.  ..