There was once a time when walking down the historic hallways of New Brighton’s two biggest high schools and bumping into John Kani, Dan Qeqe or Sipho Pityana was the norm.

Little did the pupils and their peers realise that seated in the classrooms and corridors of Newell and Cowan High schools in the mid 1900s were some of the most influential activists, athletes, performers, politicians and business people that SA would produce. ..