Annual report

Established in 1847 near Amanzimtoti, KwaZulu-Natal, by Dr Newton Adams under the auspices of the American Board of Missions. In time it constituted a high school, an industrial school and a teachers’ training college. It was named Adams College in 1934.

Founded in 1855 by James Heald, a member of the British Parliament and Methodist layman, who contributed money to establish a training institute for ministers of the Methodist Church. Healdtown Institute, as it became known, developed into a leading educational institution.

Inanda Seminary was founded in 1869 by the Rev. Daniel Lindley of the American Board of Missions. It became the first secondary school in Southern Africa exclusively for African girls.

In 1875 Swiss missionaries Ernest Creux and Paul Berthold established Lemana school near Rossbach in what is now Limpopo Province. In 1922 a new high school and teacher training institute was opened at the Elim Mission, not far from the present location of the school.

Founded by the Rev. John Dube in 1901 in Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal, Ohlange was once described as ‘a citadel of light’ in an impoverished area. Rev. Dube’s vision was to produce self-reliant citizens, and he stressed the need to provide industrial training as well as academic skills.

St Matthew’s Mission came into being in 1854, through the efforts of Anglican Bishop Armstrong, the visionary founder of St Matthew’s; Chief Socishe, who donated the land; and Charles Taberer, the ‘father’ of what the mission became. It is situated five kilometres outside Keiskammahoek in the Eastern Cape.

Tiger Kloof Educational Institution was founded in 1904, when the London Missionary Society decided to open a school that was more accessible than the Kuruman Mission where the first schoolroom north of the Orange River was built in 1829. Twelve kilometres south of Vryburg, ‘on a piece of bare veld’, the Rev. WC Willoughby built what would become known as a ‘school of presidents and carpenters’.