St. Bernard's High School (Bulawayo, Zimbabwe)

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St. Bernard's High School, Bulawayo is a Catholic school located in Pumula, a high density suburb of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. It was founded in 1965. In 2000 it opened its first A-Level classes (form 5 and 6). One of its founding teachers and principal, Sister Ignatius Julie of the Sisters of Notre Dame (SND), died in 1993. She was still the school principal at the time of her death. The schol is mostly renowned for it's academic capabilities.Although it started having A-Level in 2004, it is making big strides and has produced top-class students., notably Gift Dube who is now at Rhodes in SA, and Peacemore Mhodi who is at the university of Kwazulu-Natal.These two were joint highest for the 2006 A-Level resuts.Gift Dube is also considered one of, if not the best Public Speaker and poet ever to emerge from St Bernard's and indeed Bulawayo, if not Zimbabwe.He later went on to teach these arts as a temporary teacher at St Bernard's wher he groomed budding speakers like Perceverance Khumalo and Prince Siziba among others. St Bernard's has a tradition of balancing the spiritual development of students along with their academic development.