History
The antecedent of the current school is the historic Staats Model School, built in the 1880s by the Government of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (later Transvaal) in central Pretoria. This school was not in operation for very long owing to the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War in 1899, during which time the building served as a prison; Winston Churchill was briefly imprisoned there.
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