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St. Martin's School (Rosettenville)
St Martin's School is an Anglican private co-educational school in The Hill, Johannesburg, South Africa. History St. Martin’s School traces its origins back to the foundation of St. Agnes School for the training of domestic helpers in 1908. A few years later in 1911, St. Peter’s Priory and College were added, offering a boarding-based high school education to the young men who came from all over South Africa. The College was run by the Anglican Order of the Community of the Resurrection. Trevor Huddleston, one of the priests of the community was based at St Peter's for a number of years, and it was he who gave Hugh Masekela his first trumpet, which he acquired from Louis Armstrong whilst on a trip to the USA. St. Peter's College soon became known as the "Black Eton" where academic achievements were espoused. The list of the early alumni includes Oliver Tambo, Fikile Bam and Masekela. The apartheid policies of the National Party regime, specifically the Bantu Educa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Stern (educator)
Michael Alexander Stern (13 January 1922 – 14 July 2002) was the founder of the Waterford Kamhlaba United World College, a multi-racial school in opposition to South Africa's apartheid policies. Early life and career Michael Alexander Stern was born on 13 January 1922 in Egypt, the son of a civil engineer. He attended Ravenswood Preparatory School in Devon and Gresham's School in Holt, Norfolk. Stern went to Downing College, Cambridge for a year before his studies were interrupted by World War II. Stern served in the Royal Signals in the British Army in North Africa, Italy, and Greece, rising to the rank of captain. He graduated from Downing College in 1947. Stern taught at school in England, later assuming head teaching posts at approved schools from 1952 to 1955. In 1955, Stern read an article by the Revd Trevor Huddleston and, at Huddleston's invitation, Stern went to South Africa and became the headmaster of St Peter's, a school for African children in Johannesburg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Taylor (singer)
Jeremy Taylor (born 24 November 1937 in Newbury, Berkshire) is a retired English folk singer and songwriter who has spent much of his life in South Africa, originally as a teacher of English at St. Martin's School, Rosettenville in southern Johannesburg. Since 1994, he has lived in Wales and France. After attending the University of Oxford, Taylor became a folk singer in South Africa, remembered for his single "Ag Pleez Deddy". Much of his success came from songs that started in live performances, incorporating comedy. Taylor performed songs that questioned social problems in apartheid South Africa. Musical career South Africa Taylor began performing in clubs and coffee-bars such as the ''Cul de Sac'' in Hillbrow, Johannesburg in the 1960s, and succeeded with the comedic song "The Ballad of the Southern Suburbs" f Johannesburg also known as "Ag Pleez Deddy", in 1961. The song, written for the stage show '' Wait a Minim!,'' was a surprise hit. In performance in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowan Smith
Rowan Quentin Smith (8 August 1943 – 23 May 2018) was a Dean (religion), Dean of St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town. Early life and education Rowan Smith was born on 8 August 1943, the son of Frank and Dorothea Smith. Under the prevailing Apartheid legislation, race laws of the Apartheid regime in South Africa, he was accorded the status of a Race (human categorization), Coloured person. He was educated at Kensington, Cape Town, Kensington High School, Cape Town (class of 1960), King’s College, London (Associateship of King's College, Associate, 1966); and at St Boniface Missionary College, Warminster (1966-1967). Career He was ordained deacon at St. Nicholas’ Church, Matroosfontein, on 4 June 1967 by the Right Reverend Philip Welsford Richmond Russell, Bishop Suffragan of Cape Town, and priest at St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town on 9 June 1968 by the Anglican Diocese of Cape Town, Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Reverend Robert Selby Taylor. He served successively as ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Es'kia Mphahlele
Es'kia Mphahlele (17 December 1919 – 27 October 2008) was a South African writer, educationist, artist and activist celebrated as the Father of African Humanism and one of the founding figures of modern African literature. He was given the name Ezekiel Mphahlele at birth but changed his name to Es'kia in 1977. His journey from a childhood in the slums of Pretoria to a literary icon was an odyssey both intellectually and politically. As a writer, he brought his own experiences in and outside South Africa to bear on his short stories, fiction, autobiography and history, developing the concept of African humanism. He skilfully evoked the black experience under apartheid in ''Down Second Avenue'' (1959). It recounted his struggle to get an education and the setbacks he experienced in his teaching career. Mphahlele wrote two autobiographies, more than 30 short stories, two verse plays and a number of poems. He is deemed as the "Dean of African Letters". He was the recipient of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Masemola
Richard Mlokothwa Masemola was an Anglican priest in South Africa in the second half of the 20th century. He was born on 17 February 1921 in KwaZulu Natal or Zululand as it was then known. Masemola was the fourth-born of eleven children born to Molatudi Frank and Rhoda Mphangose Masemola. Masemola was educated at Marrianhill, St. Peter's College, Rosettenville as well as UNISA. He was ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the denominational hierarchy composed of other clergy) to perform va ... in 1961. At first he served in Hilton at a small church. Later he served at St Martin's Anglican Church in Edendale, a suburb of Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu Natal, eventually becoming an Arch Deacon. Father Masemola met and married teacher Emelda Themba Ngubane (b. 1927). They had five children; four sons and a daughter. They eventually s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Todd Matshikiza
Todd Tozama Matshikiza (1921–1968) was a South African jazz pianist, composer and journalist. Overview Matshikiza came from a musical family. He graduated from St Peter's College in Rosettenville, Johannesburg, and went on to obtain a diploma in music and a teaching diploma. He then taught English and Mathematics in Alice until 1947. During this period, Matshikiza composed songs and choral works; in particular "Hamba Kahle", now a standard South Africa piece. Matshikiza moved to Johannesburg in 1947 where he got married in 1950. He taught for a while and opened the Todd Matshikiza School of Music, a private music school, where he taught piano. His main interest was jazz. As this did not bring in a regular income, he worked in a bookshop and then as a salesman. From 1949 to 1954, Matshikiza was a committee member of the Syndicate of African Artists, which group aimed to promote music in the townships by getting visiting artists to perform there. In 1952, Matshikiza w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Klatzow
Peter James Leonard Klatzow (14 July 1945 – 29 December 2021) was a South African composer and pianist. He was the director of the College of Music and was an emeritus professor in composition at the University of Cape Town. Life and career Klatzow's earliest musical training (at about age five years) was at the Roman Catholic convent of Saint Imelda in Brakpan. After completing his schooling at St. Martin's School, Rosettenville, Johannesburg he briefly taught music and Afrikaans at the Waterford Kamhlaba School in Swaziland. Klatzow moved to London in 1964 to study for a year at the Royal College of Music after being awarded a composition scholarship from the South African Music Rights Organisation composition scholarship which allowed him to go to the (RCM) in London to study. His professors included Gordon Jacob (orchestration), Kathleen Long (piano), and Bernard Stevens (composition). He won several prizes for composition while at the school. He later studied in It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Hatendi
Ralph Peter Hatendi DD AKC (9 April 192731 August 2018) was a Zimbabwean bishop of Harare and Mashonaland from 1979 to his reluctant retirement in 1995. He later came out of retirement to serve as Interim Bishop of Manicaland from 2008 until 2009, when his son-in-law was elected to the See. In 1964/65 he was the local Vicar in the UK Lincolnshire village of Tetford. History He was born on 9 April 1927 and educated at St Peter's College, Rosettenville and King's College London. He was ordained in 1958 and began his career as a Curate in Bonda after which he was Chaplain to the Bernard Mizeki Mission in Marandellas and then a Lecturer at St John's Seminary in Lusaka Lusaka (; ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Zambia. It is one of the fastest-developing cities in southern Africa. Lusaka is in the southern part of the central plateau at an elevation of about . , the city's population was ab .... Crockford's clerical directory London, Church House 1975 R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Lee (bishop Of Christ The King)
Peter John Lee (born 5 June 1947) is an Anglican clergyman, Bishop of the Diocese of Christ the King, Johannesburg, South Africa. Educated at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk, The Hotchkiss School in Connecticut, and St. John's College, Cambridge, Lee was ordained in the Church of England and has worked in South Africa since 1976. He worked with Archbishop Desmond Tutu as Canon Missioner of the Anglican diocese of Johannesburg before being elected as bishop of the new Diocese of Christ the King. Lee retired in Jun 2016, The electoral college whose job it was to elect a successor failed to do so. The synod of bishops of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa will appoint a successor at their meeting in 2016. Works * * * Honours * Lambeth degree of Bachelor of Divinity In Western universities, a Bachelor of Divinity or Baccalaureate in Divinity (BD or BDiv; la, Baccalaureus Divinitatis) is a postgraduate academic degree awarded for a course taken in the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu (7 October 193126 December 2021) was a South African Anglican bishop and theologian, known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist. He was Bishop of Johannesburg from 1985 to 1986 and then Archbishop of Cape Town from 1986 to 1996, in both cases being the first black African to hold the position. Theologically, he sought to fuse ideas from black theology with African theology. Tutu was born of mixed Xhosa and Motswana heritage to a poor family in Klerksdorp, South Africa. Entering adulthood, he trained as a teacher and married Nomalizo Leah Tutu, with whom he had several children. In 1960, he was ordained as an Anglican priest and in 1962 moved to the United Kingdom to study theology at King's College London. In 1966 he returned to southern Africa, teaching at the Federal Theological Seminary and then the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland. In 1972, he became the Theological Education Fund's director for Africa, a posit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Bavin
Timothy John Bavin (born 17 September 1935) is a British Anglican bishop and monk. He was the bishop of Anglican Diocese of Johannesburg from 1974 to 1985. He was then Bishop of Portsmouth from 1985 to 1995. Early life and education Bavin was born the son of Lieutenant Colonel Ernest Sydney Durrance Bavin RASC and Marjorie Gwendoline (née Dew) Bavin, on 17 September 1935. He was educated at St George's School, Windsor Castle and Brighton College. He graduated from Worcester College, Oxford with a degree in '' Literae Humaniores'' in 1959 (Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts 1961). During the following two years, Bavin completed his National Service in his father's old regiment. He was commissioned in 1958 and served as a Platoon Officer in Aden. Ordained ministry Returning to Oxford, Bavin studied for ordination at Cuddesdon College. He was made deacon in 1961 and ordained priest in 1962, spending the period 1961–69 (and then 1973–85) in South Africa. He was the first Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
