Alexander Sinton Secondary School

Alexander Sinton Secondary School
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Thornton Road, Crawford


South Africa
Coordinates33°58′33″S 18°30′45″E / 33.9759°S 18.5125°E / -33.9759; 18.5125
Information
MottoVel Primus Vel Cum Primis ("If not the best, amongst the best")
Established1951 (1951)
FounderAlexander Sinton
StatusOpen
PrincipalMichael D Peterson
Number of students1,100
Websitesintonhs.co.za

Alexander Sinton Secondary School, also known as Alexander Sinton High School, is an English-medium school in Athlone, a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. The school is located in the Cape Flats, an area designated as non-white under the Group Areas Act during apartheid. The school was involved in the anti-apartheid student uprisings of the 1970s and 1980s. Staff and students at the school made headlines when they barricaded the police into their school in September 1985.[1] The following month, three youths were killed near the school by police officers who opened fire on protesters in the Trojan Horse Incident.[2] It was the first school to be visited by Nelson Mandela after his release from prison.[3] As of 2014, the school has 1,100 pupils, half boys and half girls. The school employs 40 teachers and six non-teaching staff.[4]

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  3. ^ "Alexander Sinton High School". Archived from the original on 3 October 2014. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
  4. ^ Our School Archived 23 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Sinton.co.za, retrieved 17 August 2014

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