Hottentots-Holland High School is an

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, situated between the towns of

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. The parallel-medium, co-educational school, situated to the northeast of the N2 national road, was opened at its current site by Dr G. G. (Gawie) Cillie, Chairman of the School Board, in February, 1930. A portion of the land on which it now stands having been given by Mesdames Beynon and Osler, daughters of an early Somerset West shopkeeper and property owner. At this time the school had an enrollment of 220 pupils and a staff of 11 under Mr A. J. Ackerman. The school motto "Sibi Fidelis Ipsi" is Latin for "True To Oneself". Prior to 1930, the school operated under the name Somerset West Public School. As of 2013, it has 1,232 students and 52 teachers. It has students registered in grades 8 through 12. The school enjoys a strong sporting rivalry with its neighbour high schools, Hoërskool Strand and Parel Vallei High School. The school is a site for students in the Scientific and Industrial Leadership Initiative (SAILI), a non-profit programme for promising science and engineering pupils which was set up in 2002 by the heads of the four universities in the province after they became frustrated at the low skills levels of first-year students. SAILI identifies students in low-income families in the second-last year of primary schooling and provides catch-up and reinforcement classes, after which they can enter good quality high schools such as Hottentots Holland. They continue to take classes every two Saturdays at venues such as the MTN Sciencentre for the first two years of high school, after which they take booster lessons at the

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Notable alumni

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, professional golfer and winner of the

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* Jo-Ann Strauss, TV presenter, model, public speaker and businesswoman and Miss South Africa 2000 *

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, SA rugby Springbok - 1993 * Ballie Wahl, SA rugby Springbok - 1949 * Eddie Stuart, SA soccer Springbok - 1924 * Harry Morkel, SA rugby Springbok - 1921 * Theo Pienaar, SA rugby Springbok (Captain) - 1921 * Phil Mostert, SA rugby Springbok - 1921, 1924, 1928 and 1931 * Jacky Morkel, SA rugby Springbok - 1912 * Boy Morkel, SA rugby Springbok - 1910, 1912 and 1921

Coat of arms

The school's coat of arms, based on that of

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, was registered in the name of the Old Students' Union with the Department of the Interior in April 1937. The registered description is : ''A shield bordered maroon and divided horizontally into two sections; in the top section on a black background a representation of a lamp in silver and in the lower section on an old gold background representations of three castles in maroon placed equidistant two above and one below, with the inscription O.S.U. and the motto SIBI FIDELIS IPSI.http://www.national.archsrch.gov.za. The "castles" are actually towers.

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