Michael McNab's family immigrated from the UK when he was a child.  He started out at DPHS before attending DHS: 

Michael is remembered as a rather reserved boy, although the few who got to know him recall him as polite, pleasant, and easy-going.  He was fond of sports, but not passionately so.  He was also critical of the power wielded by school prefects, which he considered tyrannical.  Michael repeated 5th form, and so matriculated with the class of 1962.

After leaving DHS Michael did military service with the Durban Light Infantry.  A classmate who was with him in the army remembers Michael as amiable, though  "a man of few words".

Michael continued his association with the school for several years, as a member of the DHS Old Boys Club and as an occasional member of club rugby teams.

After his military training Michael entered a banking career.  He joined the SA Permanent Building Society, and his first post was at a Durban branch. There he met Colleen Ford, and they were married in 1967. The wedding reception was held at the DHS Old Boys Club, and the best man was our classmate Gary Edwards.  The couple had two children, a son Shaun and a daughter Angela.  

Michael's entire career was spent with the Permanent Building Society and its successors (the company changed its name through mergers, and was eventually engulfed by NedBank).   Michael was soon transferred from Durban to East London, where he became a branch manager.  After a short spell there, he was moved to Port Elizabeth, where he spent most of his career.   Eventually Michael was transferred to Johannesburg to manage a branch there, before taking up a position at the head office there until his retirement.

After his retirement, Michael returned to Port Elizabeth, where he lived near his son Shaun.

Michael 's essentially private nature seemed to assert itself after left Durban, because from that time on he ceased communication with old friends from DHS.  He declined an invitation to join the class website, and ignored or rebuffed attempts by classmates to include him in various activites.

We have learned that Michael passed away in Port Elizabeth on 26 August 2025.  His wife Colleen had died several years earlier.  We do not have any information about the cause of death, or his survivors.

[Special thanks to Henry Aitken, Gary Edwards, and Roger Sheppard for their help with this In Memory notice]