25 years since 9/11: Remembering two Gauteng-born victims

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Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, Jacaranda Newswatch remembers South African victims and former Gauteng residents Nicholas Rowe and Craig Gibson.
Nick Rowe, a 29-year-old from Johannesburg, was at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, for a business presentation. He had attended St John’s College in Houghton, Johannesburg, from Grade 1 through to Matric.
In this episode, Adrian Norris from St John’s College, speaks to Chanel September about who Nick Rowe was as a student, how the school remembers him, and the legacy he has left behind 25 years later.
11 Sep 1AM English South Africa News · Daily News

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