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Bethlehem Voortrekker High School

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Type
  
Public, Boarding

Headmaster
  
Gys Coetzee

Website
  
www.voortrekker.co.za

Founded
  
1870

Established
  
1870

Grades
  
8 - 12

Phone
  
+27 58 303 4006

Color
  
Black, Yellow and White

Address
  
3 West St, Bethlehem, 9701, South Africa

Motto
  
NON SIBI SED PATRIAE (Nie vir myself nie, maar vir my vaderland!)

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Bethlehem Voortrekker High School is a public co-education dual medium High School situated in Wesweg, Bethlehem, South Africa. Voortrekker High School was founded in 1870 by the Dutch Reformed Church. It was reopened in 1902 after the Anglo Boer War under the leadership of Dr George Clark.

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History

  • 1902 - Jack Selfridge joined the Voortrekker Union giving the Free State something to live for
  • 1936 - Voortekker becomes the first school to register it's colors in the Schools Colors Register
  • 1938 - The school receives its name Voortrekker High School
  • 1940 - The school anthem is sung for the first time in October 1940
  • 1979 - Move to the new School Building
  • 2002 - Centenary celebrations

    • School anthem

    Omring van wydse koringvelde

    Waar nog die Trekkerspore staan,

    Sal ons sy daad en deug vermelde

    Solank ons nuwe weë baan,

    Roep uit bo somergroene velde

    Roep uit met fier gespanne stem:

    Ons roem die veels te min vermelde,

    ons roem die skool van Bethlehem.

    Refrein:

    Krag van hart en krag van gees,

    Ons wil trou en suiwer wees:

    Vreugde uit die hart gedra,

    Krag van jong Suid-Afrika,

    (Krag tot dade, krag herbore

    tot die hoogste uitverkore)

    Notable alumni

  • Karel Thomas Van Vollenhoven

    • References

    Bethlehem Voortrekker High School Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA