Fezeka Secondary school


Fezeka High School is a public high school located in Guguletu, Western Cape, South Africa. It is one of the high schools in the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality.

History

The school was founded in 1966, during the Apartheid era after black South Africans were not permitted to live in the city and were removed from areas such as District Six to Gugulethu, Nyanga and Langa. It was the second high school in the black township with Langa High School being first and I.D Mkize and Mabuwa.
In August 1976, the school was part of the Soweto Uprising which was a protest led by black students across South Africa against the Bantu Education Act, which forced all black schools to use Afrikaans and English as languages of instruction.
In the 1990s the school was moved to a new location when the old high school was re-purposed as a municipal offices.
The students of Fezeka come from Western Cape and its suburbs, including Guguletu, Langa, Nyanga and Khayelitsha.

Choir

Since 1999, under the direction of Monde Mdingi, Fezeka's school choir team has won over 35 national championship titles.

Academics

In 2012, Fezeka achieved 75.2% in the National Senior Certificate test in the province of Western Cape.

Notable alumni