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From: "David and Mary Bossenger" <>
Subject: RE: [ZA] South African College, around 1835
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 22:34:55 +0200
In-Reply-To: <008f01c221bc$99820b00$9ceaef9b@markling>


The SAC was founded in 1829 and is the "stamvader" of both the University of
CT and the SAC School. It is the oldest school in SA and celebrates its
175th birthday in 2004. It is now situated in Newlands, CT although
until the late 50s, early 60s it was on either side of the top of the
Government Avenue. The Junior School was where CT High School is now
situated and the High School shared the Orange Street campus with UCT.
The original school was not there but it moved there sometime, I think, in
the early 1900s. Some of the more easily recognisable pupils to South
Africans were Jan Hendrik "Onze Jan" Hofmeyr, Peter Kirsten and recently
Percy Montgomery. It shares the distinction with Bishops, Paul Roos and
another school, the name of which escapes me, of having a dedicated Rhodes
Scholarship. There is a more recent history than the one mentioned by Pat
Frykberg published just after 1979. If you want to find out more about
the school there is a website www.wcape.school.za/sacs or you can phone the
Old Boys Union and speak to John Ince at 021 6891829. Feel free to use my
name as a referral if you do so. I doubt very much if there are records
at the school going back as far as 1835 though we sometimes felt that there
were. There may be records at the Cape Archives or failing that try the
archives at UCT itself. You never know, you may be lucky.

David Bossenger, who vividly remembers getting cuts in the headmaster's
office in Orange Street

PS Rosenthal as quoted by Lynn McLeod was wrong. Although a the junior
school ran classes in Newlands in 1955,the main body of the junior school
moved from Wandel Street to Newlands in 1956 and the high school moved en
masse in 1960. I remember it well as I was one of the only two groups of
pupils to attend all four schools.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Lingenfelder [mailto:]
Sent: 02 July 2002 01:00
To:
Subject: [ZA] South African College, around 1835


Hello All,

Has anyone heard of or know anything about an institution referred to as the
"South African College" in Cape Town around the year 1835. I have a death
notice which states that the 20 year old subject was a "Student of the South
African College" when he died in April 1835. Does anyone know anything of
this institution, it's history, where it was situated and for what academic
purpose?

Best wishes,
Mark Lingenfelder.

*****RESEARCHING*****
*LINGENFELDER*HARTOG*DENNER*
*MATTHEE*OOSTHUIZEN*JANSE VAN RENSBURG*
*MORRIS*TOLKEN*DRURY*JUSTUS*FRIEBUS*ZWEIG*

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