As he said to the Maritzburg College chap who came round to interview him: He excelled at sport, and athletics was his particular passion. He won the best athlete prize in 4^th form 1936 and 5^th form 1937. This was the Old Man talking, Pieter Gerhardus Swanepoel, born in 1922. (‘6^th form’ is matric, or high school senior year, which he started in 1938, but he left school on 1st April that year to start an apprenticeship at the post office).

He recalls College doing very well in inter-school meets:

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