Barnabas

In 2021 St Pius X, another primary, closed down - as did St Barnabas two years later.

"I think that the sadness for me is we will lose two schools in this area, particularly losing St Barnabas, which was a long-established school."

The Saturday after the training Zoom call, my girlfriend and I showed up at St George St Barnabas Episcopal Church in Cobbs Creek, a neighborhood marking the western boundary of Philadelphia.

She previously served as director of communications and community engagement at St. Barnabas Senior Services in L.A. and as executive director of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Assn. in Washington.

"Watch this pace. See him perform on Friday," Dr Hlophe's lawyer Barnabas Xulu told the BBC.