Mount Pleasant School, Harare

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Mount Pleasant School or Joshua Nkomo High School is located in the suburb of Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe. The official name is for the late veteran nationalist, president of Zimbabwe African People's Union and vice-president of Zimbabwe, Dr. Joshua Nkomo.

The school motto is "a man of understanding walks upright", from Proverbs 15.21. The school emblem is the impala, hence the designation Old Impalian for old boys and old girls.

Mount Pleasant School was ranked 58th out of the top 100 best high schools in Africa by Africa Almanac in 2003, based upon quality of education, student engagement, strength and activities of alumni, school profile, internet and news visibility.

Old Impalians

Aobakwe Cornelius Pone – IT Architect (BPM+SOA), avid golfer

Ralph Borland – artist, designer and technologist

Dr. Jeremy Brickhill – served in Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army during the Second Chimurenga, historian and film producer

Gwinyai Tongoona – tennis player, achieved rank 678, 27 October 2003

Monica Chinamasa – farmer and wife of Zimbabwean Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa

Phillip Weiss – music and drama producer, geographer, textbook author

Iden Wetherell – editor, historian and winner of 2002 International Editor of the Year Award

Kelvin Meade- Business Guru, and Financial Consultant

Steven Nicholai Brown, A Finance and Business Guru who currently resides in the UK and South Africa.

References

Mount Pleasant School, Harare Wikipedia

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