Moleli High School, is a co-education

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located in

Mashonaland West Province Mashonaland West is a province of Zimbabwe. It has an area of 57,441 km² and a population of approximately 1.5 million (2012). Chinhoyi is the capital of the province. Districts Mashonaland West is divided into 7 districts: * Chegutu * ...

, Makwiro,

Chegutu District Chegutu District is a district of Mashonaland West Province, Zimbabwe. The district headquarters is located in Chegutu, a city which lies of the Harare-Bulawayo Road, (Highway A-5). Location The district is located in Mashonaland West Province, ...

, Msengezi area near the town of

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in the Zvimba area, 80 kilometres southwest of the

Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam ...

an capital

Harare Harare (; formerly Salisbury ) is the capital and most populous city of Zimbabwe. The city proper has an area of 940 km2 (371 mi2) and a population of 2.12 million in the 2012 census and an estimated 3.12 million in its metropolitan ...

. It offers O' and A' levels in boarding facilities. It was established in 1962 by Ronald E. Sellers of the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe and named after the late Methodist Rev. Modumedi Moleli and is a Methodist mission school. Moleli has a student population of about 620 pupils, and is considered one of Zimbabwe's top performing high schools. It is a sister school to Sandringham High School which they share sibling rivalry. The school moto "Tsvakai Chokwadi Kuyamura Vamwe" is Shona meaning "seek the truth to help others". The school has been known for the Chivero Boat disaster in which 22 form 1 students were killed when their boat capsized at Lake Chivero. The school also made headlines when a mysterious hysteria hit some of the female students. In addition to academic learning, students participate in sports (including soccer, volleyball, basketball, table tennis), chess and debating. In the seventies, it was one of the only three African schools which played softball together with St. Ignatius and

Kutama College Kutama College (officially St Francis Xavier College) is a private Catholic independent boarding 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 th ...

. Like most high schools in Zimbabwe, which follow the traditional British school system, students at Moleli are divided into four houses each having its own color: Mamukwa (blue), Sellers (green), Rusike (red), and White (yellow).

Notable alumni

Tony Gara Oriah Anthony Gara (17 April 1939 – 14 November 2006) was a Zimbabwean businessman and politician. He was a member of the National Assembly of Zimbabwe, House of Assembly of Zimbabwe for Mbare East from 1990 to 2000 and served as Ministry of ...

, MP and mayor of Harare * Gershom Pasi, Former Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) Commissioner-General * Bukhosi Mhlanga, Radio Presenter and Former Chief Executive Officer Of Free Hosting Africa * Rev Togarepi Tapera Chivaviro Student 1988-1991,Multi Award Winning musician and Author in Zimbabwe Composer and singer of one of the biggest hits in Zimbabwe EBENEZER TIRI MUNYASHA * Ziyambi Ziyambi Misiter of Justice, Legal and Parliamentry Affairs.

References

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