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Potchefstroom High School for Girls: Originally known as the Central School, it was established in 1874. Girls High was founded in 1905, when the Central School was divided into separate high schools for boys and girls. Potchefstroom High School for Boys, established in 1874, has been at its current site since 1905.
Potchefstroom Gimnasium, however, offered Afrikaans mother tongue instruction from 1915/6 [18] It is in this context that the establishment of Potchefstroom Volkskool, like Heidelberg Volkskool and other Volkskool schools, should be seen. On 19 April 1922 the Afrikaanse Medium Hoërskool opened inside a small church in Potchefstroom. Originally ...
The school was first known as “Voorbereidende Skool”.(Translated: preparatory school) On 13 November 1914 it changed its name too Potchefstroom Gimnasium. [11] The school became a government school in 1915 and was not ruled by the church any more. [12] In 1916 it changed the language medium to Afrikaans. [13]
A member or Mpumalanga Athletics, [4] Erasmus won gold in the shot put and the discus at the South African U18 Track And Field Championships in Potchefstroom.In the shot put competition she threw 18.15 metres (59.5 ft), nearly three metres clear of her nearest opponent, and comfortably clear of the previous South African youth record of 17.52 metres (57.5 ft) which was set by Lezaan Jordaan in ...
The Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education (abbreviated as PU for CHE) was a South African university located in Potchefstroom. Instruction was mainly in Afrikaans . In 2004, the university was merged with other institutions to create the North-West University .
Jean Marian Purdy was born in Cambridge on 25 April 1945. [5] She attended Cambridgeshire High School for Girls between 1956 and 1963 where she became a prefect, joined sports teams and played violin in the orchestra.
While no gold was found, the group travelled extensively among the Boer and the various black communities, and encountered many adventures. Pocklington married a Potchefstroom girl, and settled there. The Ashwells and de Glon took up farming in Natal; Will was later an associate of Cecil Rhodes in the consolidation of the Kimberly diamond mines ...
The Absa Puk Oval, formerly known as the Fanie du Toit Sports Complex and the University Oval is a cricket ground in Potchefstroom, South Africa. It has hosted senior cricket irregularly since 1982, when Transvaal hosted South African Universities. In 2010, it was one of three venues used for the ICC Women's Cricket Challenge. [1]