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A caricature of Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner (1854–1925), founder of the Pretoria Boys High School (Vanity Fair, 1897).. The antecedent of the current school is the historic Staats Model School, built 1896-1897 [1] [2] by the government of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (later Transvaal) in central Pretoria.
Pretoria Boys High School Old Boys Association Pages in category "Alumni of Pretoria Boys High School" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
As leaders in the community they quickly organized a group to establish a purely Afrikaans school in Pretoria. On 27 January 1920, the first acting head, Johannes Arnoldus Kruger de Lange received the new pupils. The first enrollment was a boy named Frederik Botha. There were 35 pupils in form II (grade 9) and 10 in form III (grade 10); 45 in ...
The school accommodated over 800 students and operated for 30 years until 1994. Concurrently, the Pretoria school of Art, music and ballet was operating on the grounds of Pretoria Boys High School which is now the Pollock campus of Boys High. The arrangement was temporary as it seems that the state was planning on financing the construction of ...
In popular language, old boy network or old boys' society has come to be used for the preservation of social elites in general; such connections within the British Civil Service formed a primary theme in the BBC's satirical comedy series Yes Minister. The phrase "It's not what you know, it's who you know" is associated with this tradition.
Pretoria High School may refer to: Pretoria Boys High School, South Africa; Pretoria High School for Girls, South Africa; Pretoria North High School, South Africa
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Alumni of Pretoria Boys High School (34 P) R. Alumni of Roedean School, South Africa (13 P) S. Alumni of St John's College (Johannesburg) (31 P)