Kutama College (officially St Francis Xavier College) is a private
Catholic independent
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high school near
Norton, Zimbabwe in the Zvimba area, 80 kilometres southwest of
Harare. Grown out of a Mission station founded in 1914 and run by the
Marist Brothers, Kutama has a student population of about 700 pupils.
Kutama College is one of the largest top schools in Zimbabwe. Kutama College was ranked 26th out of the top 100 best high schools in Africa by Africa Almanac in 2017, based on quality of education, student engagement, strength and activities of alumni, school profile, internet and news visibility.
Kutama offers a rich educational curriculum and offers both ZIMSEC, HEXCO & Cambridge examinations. The school is popular for its academic prowess in Africa. In addition to splendid academics, the school has state of the art sporting facilities to cater for sports like athletics, basketball, cricket, volleyball, handball, hockey, beach volleyball, golf, tennis , table tennis, badminton, rugby, darts and several others.
The school moto "''Esse Quam Videri''" is
Latin meaning "to be, rather than to seem".
History
Founded prior to the
Second World War by English
Jesuit Priests
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at the request of Bishop
Aston Chichester
Aston Ignatius Sebastian Joseph Chichester, SJ (22 May 1879 – 24 October 1962) was the first Roman Catholic Archbishop of Salisbury (now Harare, Zimbabwe).
Background
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, Kutama was one of the first institutions to offer high school education to students of African descent in colonial Rhodesia. Its Jesuit origins are reflected in its official name,
St Francis Xavier College. The school is part of
Kutama Mission
The Kutama (Berber: ''Ikutamen''; ar, كتامة) was a Berber tribe in northern Algeria classified among the Berber confederation of the Bavares. The Kutama are attested much earlier, in the form ''Koidamousii'' by the Greek geographer Ptolemy.
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, a
Catholic mission originally run by
Jesuits but now run by the
Marist Brothers, a Catholic order devoted to educational work.
The school's first headmaster was Father Jerome O'Hea, an
Irish-born priest after whom the local mission hospital is named. Its most famous headmaster was James Anthony (affectionately known as "Jachi") Chinamasa, a Kutama College Old Boy(KOBA) and elder brother of Zimbabwean Justice Minister
Patrick Chinamasa. The current headmaster is Mr Francis Mukoyi who took over from Br Jacob Mutingwende.
Houses
Like most high schools in Zimbabwe, which follow the traditional
British school system, students at Kutama are divided into four houses each having its own colour:
* Champagnat (Blue), named after the
Saint
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Marcellin Champagnat, the founder of the Marist movement.
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Chichester (Red)
* Michael (Green)
* Patrick (Yellow)
Notable alumni
* – Zimbabwe's second finance minister (1982–1995)
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* – former Minister without portfolio
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See also
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List of schools in Zimbabwe
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List of boarding schools
This list includes notable boarding schools (where some or all pupils study and live during the school year).
Africa
Cameroon
* Our Lady of Lourdes College, Mankon
*Saker Baptist College, Limbe
Ghana
*Aburi Girls' Senior High School
*Accr ...
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List of Marist Brothers schools
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Association of Trust Schools
The Association of Trust Schools (ATS) is an organisation of independent primary and secondary schools in Zimbabwe that was founded in 1962. Each of these schools are run by their own Board of Governors and are not for profit entities. The Heads ...
References
External links
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Top 100 African Schools
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High schools in Zimbabwe
Private schools in Zimbabwe
Boarding schools in Zimbabwe
Boys' schools in Zimbabwe
Boys' high schools in Zimbabwe
Marist Brothers schools
Marist Brothers schools in Zimbabwe
Catholic schools in Zimbabwe
Catholic secondary schools in Zimbabwe