Oriel Boys' High School is a government school located
Chisipite
Chisipite, colloquially known as Chisi is an affluent residential suburb in northeastern Harare, Zimbabwe. It is bordered by Enterprise Road to the north and Eastern road to the east, and Greendale to the south to Lewisam to the west. Begun ...
, a suburb of
Harare, Zimbabwe
Harare ( ), formerly Salisbury, is the capital and largest city of Zimbabwe. The city proper has an area of , a population of 1,849,600 as of the 2022 census and an estimated 2,487,209 people in its metropolitan province. The city is situa ...
. It was established in 1961 based on the British model of education, offering
GCE Ordinary and
Advanced Level certification in preparation for University education. It's a boys school, with a neighboring sister school,
Oriel Girls High School.
Trivia
It has been used as a
polling station
A polling place is where voters cast their ballots in elections. The phrase polling station is also used in American English, British English and Canadian English although a polling place is the building and polling station is the specific ...
for both local elections in 2010 and
national elections five years later. The school is perhaps best known for having played and lost a
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
match in which the school-boy team was defeating by an opposing team which consisted of much older players; in one case an opposing team's player was thirty-four years old.
Notable alumni
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Andy Flower, cricketer
*
Malvin Chiwanga, entrepreneur, CEO of
Matrix Petroleum
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Albert Alan Owen, composer
Website
http://www.orielboyshigh.ac.zw/
References
Schools in Harare
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