News24 | From Mitchells Plain to Oxford: The curious boy who may be one of SA’s most educated men 

​Long before Athol Williams was walking the corridors of Oxford University, receiving recognition at Harvard and the London School of Economics, or standing before the Zondo Commission giving complex evidence on South Africa’s most consequential corruption inquiry, he was a mischievous little boy in Cape Town who repeatedly escaped from nursery school and constantly got into trouble for taking things apart to see how they worked.