Sea Point High School

Celebrating 134 years this year, Sea Point High School started as Sea Point Boys High in 1884 and joined with Ellerslie Girls' High School in 1989. Today, Sea Point High School continues the tradition of excellent education. Situated on Sea Point Main Road, our learners enjoy the convenience of easy access to buses and taxis right outside the school as well a safe, clean and healthy environment close to the sea. They are a co-ed, multi-cultural school, and we pride ourselves in establishing a strong academic foundation which prepares the way for matriculation success and further tertiary education, by offering our learners the following:
-Professional, experienced, dedicated and caring teachers
-A wide variety of subject choices
-Latest technological resources: 2 Computer Labs
-Support classes
-A resident Clinical Psychologist
-Life Skills Coach
-Learner Leaders and RCL members - A leadership development programme
-Feeding scheme: Hot or cold lunch
-Sports: Soccer, Volleyball and Netball
-Various Clubs & Societies
-Debating
-Art & Design, Consumer Studies
SPHS believes that a good education is the best tool for developing and equipping young people for a successful future. Mission Statement for Sea Point High is an innovative and vibrant school which recognizes and embraces cultural diversity. They provide a challenging and holistic learning environment. They strive to instil the necessary skills and values in our learners to empower them to flourish in a dynamic and demanding society. Their enthusiastic and caring educators maximize the learners' potential to become respectful, tolerant and responsible citizens. An educational partnership involving learners, parents and educators is essential in order to accomplish our goals.

Geolocation
-33° 54' 36", 18° 23' 24"
Further Reading

https://web.facebook.com/Sea-Point-Boys-High-183864655045614/?_rdc=1&_r…
https://www.iol.co.za › news › sea-point-high-rocked-by-triple-tragedy-20..
https://www.news24.com › SouthAfrica › News › pupil-in-dock-on-robber.

Tygerberg Hospital

Tygerberg Hospital is a tertiary hospital located in Parow, Cape Town. The hospital was officially opened in 1976 and is the largest hospital in the Western Cape and the second largest hospital in South Africa. It acts as a teaching hospital in conjunction with the University of Stellenbosch's Health Science Faculty Mission
This Hospital strives to provide affordable world class quality health care to public and private patients within available resources, as well as excellent educational and research opportunities. It wants to be recognised as the best academic hospital in Africa, recognised for its world class health care service locally, nationally and internationally.

Tygerberg Hospital held a special long-service awards ceremony for employees who have been employed by the Western Cape Government for the past 20, 30, and 40 years on 24 October 2012. Five hundred and seventy-seven (577) employees received certificates and were honoured for their uninterrupted and devoted public service. The event was held at Moyo, Spier outside Stellenbosch. Ms Aletta du Toit, a Chief Radiographer at the hospital, has been imaging patients for 42 years. She started her career at Karl Bremer Hospital when Tygerberg Hospital was still being built. In 1973 she started working at Tygerberg Hospital. The highlight of her career was when she was transferred from the Diagnostic Department to the Department of Nuclear Medicine. It enabled her to further her career. What Ms Du Toit finds the most rewarding about her work in the nuclear department is the feedback from the patients, with whom she works for a length of time. She is very glad to make a difference to people’s lives: “I want to encourage young people out there to consider Tygerberg Hospital as a workplace of choice, because the hospital offers a number of training opportunities for professionals.” Ms Johanna Wynand, a General Assistant who is 61 years old, was very young when she started working at Tygerberg Hospital’s hostel. Her advice to young staff members: “Please look after your work, and listen to your supervisor.” She enjoys her work at Tygerberg Hospital. Western Cape Minister of Health, Theuns Botha, said: “So many years of their lives in the service of the Department of Health stands testimony to commitment and loyalty. Our Department is fortunate to have employees who work for us for so many years. It brings consistency into the workplace. I can only say thank you.

The Tygerberg Children's Hospital was opened in March 2000, after a start had been made to combine all services for children in the C Block. There are 308 childrens beds. Tygerberg Children's Hospital (TCH) mostly serves the poor community within its geographical area. It is more or less half of the 2,4 million children living in the Western Cape who need specialist medical care. Specialist care is offered to areas of the Northern and Eastern Cape, and Tygerberg Children's Hospital support paediatric care in other African countries. Every year, approximately 16 000 babies and children are admitted to TCH and more than 100 000 children receive specialist medical care as outpatients.
TCH serves as the academic hospital for the University of Stellenbosch, the University of the Western Cape and other tertiary institutions, as well as the Provincial Government of the Western Cape. Clinical research into diseases affecting children in South Africa, such as tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and cancer, as well as the management of neonatal diseases, is also a focus of our work at this hospital.

In order to make the most of the delivery of the entire spectrum of quality child health care to our mostly poor community, TCH is currently being restructured and upgraded from funds received through the TCH Trust. The result of this development project will be a child and parent friendly environment in an independent children's hospital. TCH will work as a functional unit, specifically dedicated to the needs of children and newborn babies, within Tygerberg Academic Hospital.

Geolocation
-33° 54' 43.2", 18° 36' 32.4"

South African College High School

SACS is the oldest high school in South Africa, founded in September 1829. It is arguably the most magnificent setting at the foot of Table Mountain and Devils peak. The school prides itself on the balanced education it provides, the world-class facilities on offer, the fact that SACS men strive for excellence in all spheres of school life and that it places a strong emphasis on high moral values.
Far from resting contentedly on its 186 year-old record of growth and excellence, SACS in the 1980s and early 90s, led the Open Schools’ Movement, making it possible, without the formal sanction of the Nationalist Government, for the integration of South African schools. Boys ‘of colour,’ Muslim and Christian, had been enrolled at SACS throughout the 19th century but, segregated for 85 odd years by the Cape School Board’s Act of 1905 and the subsequent blight of apartheid, the school had the unusual satisfaction of re-opening its doors in 1992 to boys of all races.
With many headmasters and teachers of Scottish extraction, the school has enjoyed too, a reputation from its earliest days of academic rigor and thoroughness. This was undoubtedly a factor which attracted to the school Jewish immigrants settling in the Cape in the first decades of the 20th century, so many of whose sons went on to make huge contributions to the development of South Africa as well as gaining international renown. Justice Albie Sachs, Lord Solly Zuckerman and Lord Leonard Hoffmann have been a few of those who, in the words of the School Song, have ‘swelled the fame…’
One of only four schools world-wide privileged enough to possess its own Rhodes Scholarship, SACS has attracted to itself pupils possessing the calibre, academically, culturally and in the sporting sphere to qualify for consideration for this, ‘our greatest prize.’
The former home of the mining magnate Sir Max Michaelis, Montebello today gives SACS boys the privilege of studies and sport within the precincts of one of the loveliest properties at the Cape, if not the country. On it, by 1960, had arisen what the writer Alan Paton described as ‘the grandest school buildings in South Africa’. His larger point, however, being that, notwithstanding the magnificence of the school’s amenities, the fact that SACS counted Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr as its most famous Old Boys, made it the grandest of all South African schools.

Geolocation
-33° 58' 15.6", 18° 27' 18"
Further Reading

https://www.bloomsburyprofessional.com › the-jurisprudence-of-lord-hoff...

AIDS activist stoned and stabbed to death by her neighbours

Gugu Dlamini

On 16 December 1998, Gugu Dlamini, a young woman from KwaMashu, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, who was dedicated to raising awareness around HIV/AIDS and fighting against the discrimination of infected persons, was killed. Being HIV positive herself, Dlamini believed that in order to overcome the stigma of the virus and educate people across all social spheres it was imperative to talk openly about the disease. Dlamini undertook to make her HIV status public.

Ahmed Timol born on the 3rd Nov 1941

Ahmed Timol was the first political prisoner to be killed at John Vorster Square

Ahmed Timol was born on the 3rd November 1941 in Breyten in current-day Mpumalanga. He grew up in Roodepoort and trained as a teacher. In 1964 he attended the funeral of Suliman 'Babla' Saloogee who had died in detention. This influenced him to join the liberation movement. He went for political training abroad in 1969. He was trained with Thabo Mbeki and Anne Nicholson. In February 1970 he returned to the country and went underground. He was arrested at a roadblock and 4 days later, on the 27th Oct 1971 he died at the hands of the security police at the infamous John Vorster Square.