Voortrekker High School is a school in the

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. The school first opened as an

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language school for white students in 1934 and was the first such school in the Southern Suburbs area of

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. In 1992 the school was opened to students of all races and became a dual English and Afrikaans language school in 2003. In 2012, due to the declining number of Afrikaans speakers in the Southern Suburbs, the school became an English language medium school only. Originally named the Simon van der Stel Secondary School the name was likely changed to Voortrekker High around 1938.

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