"You're not only representing the people where you come from but the whole of South Africa" - Williams ©Getty
An athletic young man wearing sensible spectacles, a sharp haircut, a nattily trimmed beard, a well-fitting grey suit, a buzzy tie and brown brogues strides across a stage an urgent certainty. He could be a youthful Malcolm X.
A celebratory bouquet of flowers sprawls at the centre of a scene bookended by lecterns and arrayed with seated sages in brightly tasselled mortarboards and black, red, purple and yellow academic gowns.
Our young man also wears the start of a smile, warmth in his eyes, and a black gown. He is a few steps away from confounding the cliche's about people who come from his world - stereotypes invariably conjured by people who have only the barest knowledge of that world.
The moment is captured in a photograph taken during a University of the Western Cape (UWC) graduation ceremony on April 3, 2019. It is a picture of triumph. Something about the young man suggests he has seen more of life, good and bad, than others three times his age. And that there is far more life to come for him, much of it good. Hope beams from this imminent recipient of a Bachelor of Arts. His name is