Ezenzeli Blind Institute was a school for the blind in
Roodepoort
Roodepoort is a town in the Gauteng province of South Africa. Formerly an independent municipality, Roodepoort became part of the Johannesburg municipality in the late 1990s, along with Randburg and Sandton. Johannesburg's most famous botanical g ...
, near
Johannesburg
Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Demo ...
in South Africa. It was founded in 1939 by
Arthur Blaxall
Arthur William Blaxall (15 May 1891 – 5 December 1970) was a British South African Anglican priest who for most of his life lived and worked in South Africa especially known for his ministry among the blind and the deaf.
Biography
Arthur Wil ...
, a British-born Anglican pastor who with his wife worked in South Africa since 1923.
Among the institute's teachers was
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 ...
, who worked there in the 1940s.
Desmond Tutu's mother Aletha worked there is a cook in the same period; it was there that Tutu met
Trevor Huddleston
Ernest Urban Trevor Huddleston (15 June 191320 April 1998) was an English Anglican bishop. He was the Bishop of Stepney in London before becoming the second Archbishop of the Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean. He was best known for ...
.
References
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Schools for the blind in South Africa