Mamelodi High School, also called Mamelodi Secondary School, is a high school in

Mamelodi Mamelodi, part of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, is a township set up by the then apartheid government northeast of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. Etymology "Mamelodi" is the name derived from the Sepedi word with the prefix bei ...

township, Tshwane,

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. The school was founded in 1956 under the

Department of Bantu Education The Department of Bantu Education was an organisation created by the National Party government of South Africa in 1953. The Bantu Education Act, 1953 provided the legislative framework for this department. Function of the department Before the Ba ...

of the

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regime. In the 1960s it was one of only two post-primary schools in Mamelodi. The medium of instruction was

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, until the Soweto uprising in 1976, when it changed to English. The Umkhonto we Sizwe operative Solomon Mahlangu attended Mamelodi High School until Standard 8 (grade 10).

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