Mwangi Githahu mwangi.githahu@inl.co.za
A RETIRED City law enforcement officer, who was fêted as a hero after battling heavy waves to rescue two people, including a lifeguard, at Camps Bay in 2009, is coaching young people in life-saving skills.
After a number of personal challenges over the past few years since he left the City’s employ after 30 years, Keith Abrahams finally managed to get his non-profit organisation, the Warobile Lifesaving Aquatics Academy, up and running at a formerly disused swimming pool at the Maitland Holy Cross High school.
Abrahams named the academy, which focuses its attention on getting young people off the streets and into the water, after Waroona Senosi and Qarabile Motswari, two teenagers who drowned at Camps Bay Beach in September 2013 while on an excursion with…