29-626: Ohlange High School is a secondary school in Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal , South Africa. It was founded in 1901 by John Dube and Nokuthela Dube ( née Mdima). It was the first school in South Africa started by a black person. John Dube was also the first President of what became the ANC . The school was chosen by President Nelson Mandela as the place where he would cast his vote in the first racially inclusive election in South Africa in 1994. The school
58-453: A missionary teacher in 1939. When Grant arrived Ohlange High School already had an established team. Grant raised the status of the game around Durban and made Adams the centre of this new school sport. Cricket was the sport popular with the Indian immigrants to South Africa and the local Durban Indian Cricket Union dated from 1894. The mission station is called Adams Mission and it had
87-480: A polling booth in the school. Mandela chose the area because he wanted to give the native black population the confidence to vote. He chose Ohlange School in particular because this is where John Dube, the first president of what was to become the ANC, was buried, and he wanted to lay a wreath. Mandela stood by the grave and said: "Mr President, I have come to report to you that South Africa is free today." Enrolment in 2012
116-556: A site south of Durban where he founded a "family school" within months of his arrival. The school attracted both adults and children. He was helped by an early convert called Mbalasi who was the widow of Duze Ka Mnengwa KaKhondlo. He had been a Chief of the Makanya killed during the wars with Shaka leaving Mbalasi to care for herself. She and her son Nembula became part of the Adams home. A historic meeting took place here in 1881 when
145-500: A traditionalist approach was backed by John Dube who was at Ohlange and Brookes who was the headmaster here. Esau Fika Mthethwea who was a teacher formed the "Lucky Stars" in 1929 as an ethnic vaudeville troupe of typically eight young teachers who had been trained at Adams. Esau died in 1933 but others took over and the Lucky Stars toured throughout the country and they nearly had a tour of Europe. The "Shooting Stars" are one of
174-784: A while taught physiology at the college. In 1924 Z.K. Matthews was appointed to be the first black head of Adams College where the activist Albert Luthuli was already a teacher. Both of them were active in politics and Matthews was later to be the Botswana Ambassador to the United Nations and Luthuli was to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Between 1933 and 1945 Edgar Brookes was the Principal of Adams College. He worked closely with John Dube of Ohlange High School to achieve common objectives of improving
203-560: A year and arranging for Dube's helpers and family including John Mdima to go to college. The Dubes spent fifteen months in the states with John speaking and his wife singing. June Emaroy Smith was particularly generous and funded the 1907 construction of a boy's building. Dube noted in his talks that the Afro American was largely Christian whereas the native African had only limited access to the Christian message. In its early years
232-491: A year was earmarked for Ohlange, Adams College , Inkamana High School , Inanda Seminary and Vryheid Comprehensive High School to make them academies focusing on Maths, Science and Technology. Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Njongonkulu Ndungane said that they still needed funds and "little has been achieved since democracy". Prominent former pupils include the Nobel Laureate Albert Luthuli and
261-469: The Bantu Education Act came into force. This act required that South African schools prepare black students for secondary and manual labour. Grant and the school felt that this was unacceptable and argued that they should be allowed to become independent. However the first President and the incumbent President of the ANC were staff from the school and the authorities were adamant. They allowed
290-605: The 16 September 1851 death of mission founder the Reverend Newton Adams , M.D. Adams was much revered and in the 1930s the school was renamed Adams College in his honour. Adams had arrived in 1835 with two other missionaries, but after being rebuffed by the Thabethe tribe which employed local chiefs from numerous nguni clans one noticeable one was headed by inkosi Mtubantuba to donate cattle they had set out to establish three complementary missions. Adams had chosen
319-891: The Amanzimtoti Zulu Training School. The school was founded in 1853 by the Reverend David Rood, missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions . The school was located on the glebe of the Amanzimtoti mission and was initially named the Amanzimtoti Institute . Rood had arrived in Natal 20 January 1848 and subsequently established the Ifafa mission station. Rood then transferred to Amanzimtoti following
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#1732782651613348-773: The Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka , who went back to her former school in May 2006 as part of the Global Campaign for Education . Musical alumni include Reuben Caluza , the singer Busi Mhlongo and the jazz musician Victor Ntoni . Sportsman Stephen Mokone also studied here. Judge President John Hlophe matriculated at Ohlange in 1978. 29°41′54.63″S 30°57′26.21″E / 29.6985083°S 30.9572806°E / -29.6985083; 30.9572806 Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal Too Many Requests If you report this error to
377-588: The Ohlange cause to distract himself from his loss. Strong was able to arrange for the Dubes to meet Douglas and Emaroy June Smith, who became rich due to patent medicines and in time from the Pepsodent toothpaste brand. They donated thousands of dollars to the school, which enabled more teachers to be employed. This was in addition to the money that Dube obtained from the family of Anson Phelps Stokes . By 1904,
406-866: The Reverend William Cullen Wilcox was asked to talk to a fatherless student called John Dube about his poor behavior at the school. John was the son of the Reverend James Dube who was the Congregational minister in Inanda. In 1887 John Dube was "adopted" by the Wilcoxes and taken to America to study at Oberlin College . Wilcox was to be eventually awarded with a medal by the South African government and Dube
435-586: The Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.132 via cp1112 cp1112, Varnish XID 947595559 Upstream caches: cp1112 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 08:30:51 GMT Adams College Adams College is a historic Christian mission school in South Africa, associated with the United Congregational Church of Southern Africa (UCCSA). It
464-537: The finances needed further attention and Dube was unable to find any help in Natal. He had to return to America and he left John Mdima in charge of both the school and the newspaper. In Brooklyn, Dube met the new chair of the committee S. Parkes Cadman , who was pastor of the Central Congregational church in Brooklyn. Cadman reorganised the funding arranging for benefactors to sponsor students for £30
493-532: The first few years. A solution to this came from an American committee that supported Dube's belief that Christian conversion could be achieved via industrial education. A leading member of the committee was the Illinois pastor Sidney Dix Strong who had visited South Africa and had included the Ohlange Institute to his itinerary. Strong's wife died on the journey back to Chicago and Strong decided to use
522-408: The lot of native Africans. The school became one of the most important schools for black education. In 1945 the school lost Edgar Brookes, and there was a period of unrest and poor discipline. In 1947 the main building of the school burned down. A new headmaster, Jack Grant, a white academic, arrived from Trinidad in 1948 to refocus the school. The school faced legal opposition from the government as
551-445: The nearby Inanda Seminary School to operate outside the act, but in 1956 the school held a service to mark the end of its operation. The school was sold to the government and the head left South Africa. The important item was the school was not able to be called "Adams". What was then thought to be the end of a leading school was described by ex-staff member George C. Grant in his book, The Liquidation of Adams College . The school
580-644: The oldest football teams in the Durban area. Football was introduced by the missionary schools and the Shooting Stars were able to challenge similar teams at Ifafa , Umbumbulu and Inanda . All of these teams were well established by 1902. George Copeland Grant was on the teaching staff of Adams College where cricket had been introduced in the 1930s. As "Jackie" Grant he had captained the West Indies Cricket team for four tests before becoming
609-696: The school after the Tuskegee University in America. As a result, the Zulu Christian Industrial Institute laid emphasis on developing self-reliance in its students. In 1901, the school was renamed the Ohlange Institute. It was called "Ohlange" by Dube based on the word "uhlanga", which means the point of new growth in a plant or an ancestor for a descended family. The school was so popular initially that students were sleeping without beds. The finances were difficult in
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#1732782651613638-553: The school taught not only basic education but also vocational skills such as journalism, shoe and dressmaking, carpentry, motor mechanics and agriculture. Dube contributed to the administration, as well as teaching journalism. The academic side was not ignored and in 1915 the first Ohlange students went to study at the University College of the Cape of Good Hope . 1917 saw the construction of a girls' dormitory. The purpose here
667-483: Was 865, with nearly 100 boarding at the school. There were just over 60 staff, with 34 being teachers in 2012. The school had a laboratory and a technical drawing room, a computer and cooking room, a library and 23 other classrooms in 2012. The admin block is in addition and the school had plans in 2012 to add six more classrooms and to increase the computing facilities. In 2007, Ohlange was among several schools recognised as "historic schools". Funding of six million rand
696-504: Was abandoned. During this period the school was poorly cared for during the Apartheid period and buildings were demolished. The school requires some work to achieve its previous successes but in 2007 the school achieved a 93% Matric pass rate in line with Thulani Khumalo the heads priority of "academic excellence". Both what is now Ohlange High School and Adams were involved with a move to return music to its ethnic roots. The move to
725-482: Was founded in 1853 at Amanzimtoti a settlement just over 20 miles (32 km) south of Durban by an American missionary. The settlement there is known as Adams Mission . The college's alumni include Presidents of Botswana and Uganda, several ministers and leaders of the African National Congress . It is recognised as a historic school. It has been called Adams School, Amanzimtoti Institute and
754-649: Was founded in 1901 as the Zulu Christian Industrial School by John Langalibalele Dube and his first wife, Nokutela . The school, also known as the Ohlange Native Industrial Institute, was the first educational institution in South Africa to be founded by a black person. The land for the school was donated by Chief Mqhawe of the AmaQadi. John Dube had been in contact with Booker T. Washington and modelled
783-514: Was renamed the Amanzimtoti Zulu Training School as the Bantu Education Act, 1953 finally came into effect. Bantu Education was a clearly divisive and paternalist racist campaign that was designed to educate black children for their lowly place in society. Academic subjects were not encouraged as this might deny the country the (black) manual labour it required. The school's name returned to "Adams" when Bantu education
812-592: Was to establish a teacher training centre, which was seen as a female career. Enoch Sontonga 's song, which later became a South African national anthem, became better known after Ohlange Institute's choir used it. They played it at the South African Native National Congress meeting in 1912. It was sung after the closing prayer, and the ANC adopted it as its official closing anthem in 1925. On 27 April 1994, Nelson Mandela cast his vote in his country's first all-race elections at
841-402: Was to open his own school , his own newspaper and to be the first leader of what was to become the African National Congress . In 1888 Dr. John Mavuma Nembula, a student from Adams, returned to the College from America. He had been sent to America to help with translating a Zulu Bible but he had stayed there and he had become a physician. He was the first Black South African to do this and for
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