St Martin's School
| St Martin's School | |
|---|---|
| type of school | secondary school |
| founding | 1908 |
| address |
114 Victoria Street |
| place | Johannesburg |
| province | Gauteng |
| Country | South Africa |
| Coordinates | 26 ° 15 '2 " S , 28 ° 3' 40" E |
| management | JB Welsh |
| Website | stmartin.co.za |
The St Martin's School is a secondary school in the district Rosettenville in South African Johannesburg . Her predecessor school, St Peter's College , was called the "Black Eton ". The school was organizationally linked to St Peter's Theological College .
construction
St Martin's School is a co-educational boarding school owned by the Anglican diocese of Christ the King . The school is open to students of all faiths and ethnic groups. Bishop Peter John Lee chairs the Governing Council. Students finish school with the matric .
The motto is that of the namesake of the school, St. Martin von Tours , traditional saying: Non recuso laborem - "I do not refuse to take the trouble".
history
In 1903, St Peter's Theological College was built on today's school grounds to train Anglican clergy. In 1908 the St Agnes School was founded, a school for home economics . In 1911, St Peter's Priory and College was established with a boarding school where black students could get a high school education. In the early 1930s, the school was the first in the Transvaal where black students could take the matric . Soon St Peter's College was referred to as the "black Eton" due to the high number of successful school leavers. One graduate was Oliver Tambo , who later returned to the school as a teacher and eventually became chairman of the African National Congress in 1967 and remained so until 1991.
In 1949 the Anglican clergyman and apartheid opponent Trevor Huddleston took over the management of the school and the Theological College. Among other things, he founded the Huddleston Jazz Band, from which several successful jazz musicians emerged. Among the graduates of the Theological College was the future Anglican Archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu . In 1953 the National Assembly passed the Bantu Education Act , which shaped inferior education for black students. At the same time, the churches, which ran the majority of the schools for blacks, were disempowered in this field of activity. While most of the mission schools continued to operate under the worsened conditions after initial protests , Huddleston, in coordination with Bishop Ambrose Reeves, closed the school and other educational institutions in 1956.
In January 1958 it was reopened as St Martin's School as a new school for whites. St Peter's Theological College existed until 1963, but had to relocate due to the Group Areas Act , as Rosettenville was considered a residential area for whites. Along with other clergy training seminars, the college was re-established at the Federal Theological Seminary of Southern Africa in Alice .
Surroundings
The school is located on the eastern edge of Rosettenville. Immediately south is the South Rand Hospital.
Well known former students of St Peter's College
- Oliver Tambo (1917–1993), politician, lawyer and teacher
- Ezekiel "Es'kia" Mphahlele (1919–2008), writer and literary scholar
- Peter Abrahams (1919-2017), writer
- Thamsanqa Wilkinson Kambule (1921–2009), mathematician and mathematics teacher
- Duma Nokwe (1927–1978), politician
- Vincent Joseph Gaobakwe Matthews (1929-2010), politician
- Arthur Maimane (1932–2005), writer and journalist
- Zakes Mokae (1934–2009), actor
- Fikile Bam (1937–2011), lawyer, lecturer and entrepreneur
- Obed Musi (1938-2010), journalist
- Hugh Masekela (1939–2018), jazz musician
- Jonas Gwangwa (* 1941), jazz musician
Web links
- The school website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Self-description of the school ( Memento from June 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ Entry at historicalpapers.wits.ac.za (English), accessed on April 18, 2015
- ↑ a b c History of the school on the school homepage ( Memento from June 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ Biography at anc.org.za ( Memento from March 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ^ Nelson Mandela On Education: the Bantu Education Act 1953 & Its Consequences . on www.educationstate.org (English)