HMP has been associated with various sports clubs in Sydenham, helped many residents through apartheid, reducing the “utter futility of everyday life” that they experienced.
Over the years, it has stood for “health, motivation, performance”; “humility, motivation, perseverance” and “honour, motivation, preservation”.
“It’s an acronym that captures a culture of interacting, of bringing about transformation and life to us coloured people in Sydenham in the desperate time of apartheid,” said Les Fabre who, with fellow legendary sports coach Raschardt Williams, wrote From Sydenham to the World, launched last weekend.
“HMP is grounded on a simple saying, which is from the Book