Amity International School, formerly the Pretoria Hindu School, is a private school in

Erasmia Erasmia is a suburb in the northern outskirts of Centurion in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality. Originally a whites-only area under apartheid, increasing numbers of Indians from neighbouring Laudium moved in, following the aboliti ...

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, South Africa. It is associated with the

Amity International School Amity International Schools is a 5-Pvt. Unaided (Recognized) 3-Co-educational are schools located in New Delhi, India, National Capital Region (NCR Delhi), and Lucknow. These schools are affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (C ...

s group. The school caters for all classes starting from Grade R till

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, and also has a range of sporting activities. The school also offers exchange programs between the other campuses around the world, including France and Mauritius.

History

Pretoria Hindu School, was a mainly

Hindu Hindus (; ) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism.Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pages 35–37 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for ...

based school catering to the largely Indian communities of

Laudium Laudium () is an Indian township (apartheid classification) in southwest of central Pretoria, in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality. Claudius is a residential suburb that is effectively an extension of Laudium. History Older aeri ...

and

. The school was run by the community and was known for its small classes. The school occupied its Erasmia campus and a part of the Shree Pretoria Hindu Seva Samaj(SPHSS) until 2005 when they finished construction on the extra classrooms at Erasmia campus. In order for the school to grow its numbers, the name was changed to Trident College. The changing of the name had very little effect on the numbers of the school as many people still referred to the school as the Pretoria Hindu School, and still kept the idea that the school was predominantly for Hindus.

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