Mount Pleasant School, Harare
Mount Pleasant School hall
Mount Pleasant School or Joshua Nkomo High School is located in the suburb of Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe. The official name[1] 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 named in 2003 as the fifty-eighth best high school in Africa, based upon strength and activities of old boys and old girls, school profile, internet and news visibility.[2]
Old Impalians
- Aobakwe Cornelius Pone – IT Architect (BPM+SOA), avid golfer[3]
- 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[4]
- 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[5]
- Kelvin Meade- Business Guru, and Financial Consultant
References
- ↑ Advert in the Herald, 6 February 2002
- ↑ Africa Almanac Research, 2003. Africa's Top 100 High Schools
- ↑ http://www.corneliuspone.com
- ↑ Tennisinsight.com Player profile: Gwinyai Tongoona
- ↑ Worldpress, 2002. International Editor of the Year Award.
Coordinates: 17°46′48″S 31°02′43″E / 17.7800°S 31.0453°E