SWANENG'S 50TH ANNIVERSARY - A CHANCE TO ASK AND TO DEBATE

Monday, February 03, 2014

On the weekend of March 22/23 Serowe will be celebrating Swaneng's 50th anniversary (a year late!). Anniversaries always give us the opportunity to re-think and re-assess and this one challenges us to get to grips with the school's remarkable founder, Patrick van Rensburg and with the policies he advocated.

Patrick, as now fewer and fewer remember, was responsible for establishing in Serowe a secondary school (Swaneng), a primary school, numerous Brigade projects, cooperative societies and an inter-linking production project known as Boiteko.

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