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, South Africa. The founder was E.I.Rice. It is a Catholic High School.

Beginnings

JJ Mulan was the first Head Master. In 1905, the school opened boarding facilities. These hostels were designed by Rogers and Ross. It was built by Church and MacLauchlin.

School crest

The crest consists of a star, a cross, a circle and a book, that is open. It also shows the symbols A and Ω,

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The meaning is: *Star an indication of guidance. *The circle shows eternity. *Christ is pertained in the cross. *The open book shows learning from an early age. *The A and Ω is from "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty".

School motto

Two mottos are used collectively: * la, Facere et Docere, lit= To do and to teach and * la, Age Quod Agis , lit= Translated: Do what you do well

Temporarily closed

CBC was temporarily closed from 16 February 1900 to 7 May 1900. During

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it was used as a military hospital. Teaching went ahead in tents erected on the schools premises. In 1933 a clock tower as erected as a memory to the soldiers that died in the war.

Chapel

On the school’s ground, a chapel was built which opened in 1923. It was designed by an Irish architect o’Connor, G.L.

Today

It is a co-ed school, with English as medium of education. It is an Independent School, regulated by the

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(ISASA).

1997

In 1997, the school on its 100th year celebration decided to change its name to St Patrick CBC.

Other CBC schools in South Africa

*Veritas College – Springs, Gauteng *Christian Brothers' College, St John's Parklands – Cape Town, Western Cape *Christian Brothers' College, St Joseph's – Bloemfontein, Free State *St Dominic's College – Welkom, Free State

Alumni

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a politician who was a collaborator with

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in the assassination of

Chris Hani Chris Hani (28 June 1942 – 10 April 1993), born Martin Thembisile Hani , was the leader of the South African Communist Party and chief of staff of uMkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). He was a fierce ...

Tommy Bedford Thomas Pleydell Bedford (born 8 February 1942 in Bloemfontein, South Africa) is a South African former rugby union player who represented the national team, the Springboks, 25 times, also captaining the Springboks on three occasions. He became ...

- Springbok rugby captain and apartheid critic. *

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- Journalist and anti-apartheid

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. * Frank Templeton Prince - British Poet * John Briscoe – An engineer (water) and received the Stockholm Water Prize. *Patrick (Pat) Joseph Lyster – Springbok Rugby Wing, playing for the Springboks between 1933 and 1937. *Graham Etherington –Journalist and editor of

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* Reunert Sidney Bauser - Rugby administrator, Freemason Grand Master and Mayor of Kimberley. *John Steele Chalsty -Investment banker and Chairman of the United Nations Association of the USA

References

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