Ohlange High School

Ohlange High School

Ohlange High School is a secondary school in Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It was founded in 1901 as the "Zulu Christian Industrial School" by John Langalibalele Dube (later first president of the African National Congress) [1]. Dube had been in contact with Booker T. Washington and modeled his school after the Tuskegee University.

Enrollment as of 2002 was 815. [2]

On April 27, 1994, Nelson Mandela cast his vote in his country's first all-race elections at a polling booth in the school. [3]

Prominent former pupils include Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, who went "Back to School" in May, 2006 as part of the Global Campaign for Education. [4] [5]

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