Prologue: Serowe at the dawn of the Swaneng era

Friday, November 01, 2013

In 1967 then volunteer TOM HOLZINGER joined the first batch of trainees at the Serowe Farmers' Brigade in clearing land. In this series he gives an account of legendary Swaneng School and its associated projects, starting with the early years

The birds woke up long before the sun and proclaimed the day, a warm and lazy February 11,1963. A few hours later a group of 28 excited school students filed into a single room on the eastern edge of Serowe. They had in part constructed that classroom themselves. Many were already adults. Against the odds, they were about to start Form 1.

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