IN-DEPTH
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Many Cape Flats schools produce high achievers by putting pupils first
My high school was a poor coloured school on the cusp of the Cape Flats. We had broken windows and waterlogged sports fields. Despite not having much, we made the most of what we had. The results are impressive. Heathfield High School produced two Olympians — 800m runner Freddie Williams, who captained the Canadian Olympic team in 1992, and beach volleyball player Leigh-Ann Naidoo, a PhD student at the University of the Witwatersrand. Performers such as Marc Lottering, David Isaacs and Lana English (lead in Phantom of the Opera) all went to Heathfield High School. My brother Larry Claasen is the editor of Brainstorm Magazine. The school’s music programme was so impressive, it was invited to perform with the late Yehudi Menuhin. Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel is so proud of his alma mater, he regularly invites pupils from Heathfield High to Parliament. But by far the most impressive person to matriculate from Heathfield High has been Zuko Menziwa. He was in the first gen...
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