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Parktown Boys' High School is a public English medium high school for boys situated in Parktown, a suburb of Johannesburg in the Gauteng province of South Africa.^[1]

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1923 establishments in South Africa

Adam Kuper

Adam Jonathan Kuper (born 29 December 1941) is a South African anthropologist most closely linked to the school of social anthropology.

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Alan Menter

Alan Menter (born 30 October 1941, in Doncaster) is an English-born dermatologist, and former flyhalf rugby union player for the Springboks.

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Ancient Rome

In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

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AstroTurf

AstroTurf is an American subsidiary of SportGroup that produces artificial turf for playing surfaces in sports.

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Auckland Park

Auckland Park is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Boarding school

A boarding school is a school where pupils live within premises while being given formal instruction.

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A boater (also straw boater, basher, skimmer, The English Panama, cady, katie, canotier, somer, or sennit hat) is a semi-formal summer hat for men, which was popularised in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

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Bob Newson

Edward Serrurier "Bob" Newson (2 December 1910 – 24 April 1988) was a South African cricketer who played in three Test matches in 1930–31 and 1938–39.

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Bradley Carnell

Bradley Neil Carnell (born 21 January 1977) is a South African football coach and former footballer who played as a defender.

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Byron Bertram

Byron Bertram (born 29 October 1952) is a former professional tennis player from South Africa Bertram attended Parktown Boys' High School.

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.

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Charles Feinstein

Charles Hilliard Feinstein, FBA (18 March 1932 – 27 November 2004) was a noted South African and British economic historian.

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Christo Coetzee

Christo Coetzee (24 March 1929 – 12 November 2000) was a South African assemblage and Neo-Baroque artist closely associated with the avant-garde art movements of Europe and Japan during the 1950s and 1960s.

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Currie Cup

The Currie Cup is South Africa's premier domestic rugby union competition featuring teams representing either entire provinces or substantial regions within provinces.

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David Ipp

David Andrew Ipp (1938 – 8 October 2020) was a South African-born Australian lawyer, judge and Commissioner of the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption between 2009 and 2014.

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David Ironside

David Ernest James Ironside (2 May 1925 – 21 August 2005) was a South African cricketer who played in three Test matches, all against New Zealand in South Africa in 1953–54.

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Democratic Alliance (South Africa)

The Democratic Alliance is a South African political party which is a part of the current South African Government of National Unity (GNU) together with the African National Congress (ANC), Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), and several others.

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Dick Lord

Brigadier General Richard Stanley 'Dick' Lord (20 June 1936 – 26 October 2011) from Johannesburg, South Africa was a South African Air Force and Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm pilot.

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Eighth grade

Eighth grade (also 8th Grade or Grade 8) is the eighth year of formal or compulsory education in the United States of America.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Eric Sturgess

Eric William Sturgess (10 May 1920 – 14 January 2004) was a South African male tennis player and winner of six Grand Slam doubles titles.

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Gauteng

Gauteng (Sotho-Tswana for 'place of gold'; eGoli or iGoli) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa.

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George Getzel Cohen

George Getzel Cohen (30 July 1927 – 9 December 2023) was a South African-Australian radiologist.

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Hampshire County Cricket Club

Hampshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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Hanover Acceptances

Hanover Acceptances Limited is a holding company founded 1974 by Manfred Gorvy.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Henry Benson, Baron Benson

Henry Alexander Benson, Baron Benson GBE (2 August 1909 – 5 March 1995) was a British accountant best known as a partner of Coopers & Lybrand, an advisor to the Bank of England, his work organising the accountancy profession as president of Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and for the part he played in various Royal Commissions.

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House of Lords

The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Ian Davidson (South African politician)

Ian Ormiston Davidson (born 1 January 1951) is a former Member of the South African Parliament from the Democratic Alliance.

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Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales

The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) is a professional membership organisation that promotes, develops and supports chartered accountants and students around the world.

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Jack Penn

Jack Penn (14 August 1909 – 27 November 1996), M.B., Ch.B., F.R.C.S.(E.), Mil.

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Jackie Mekler

Jack Mekler (4 March 1932 – 1 July 2019) was a South African long-distance runner.

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Jake White

Jake White (born 13 December 1963 as Jacob Westerduin) is a professional rugby union coach and former coach of the South African national team – the Springboks – whom he coached to victory in 2007 Rugby World Cup and the 2004 Tri Nations.

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James Dalton (rugby union)

James Dalton (born 16 August 1972) is a South African rugby union player who played for the South Africa national rugby union team.

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Jeppe High School for Boys

Jeppe High School for Boys is a public English medium high school for boys in Kensington, a suburb of Johannesburg in the Gauteng province of South Africa. Parktown Boys' High School and Jeppe High School for Boys are schools in Johannesburg.

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Johannesburg

Johannesburg (Zulu and Xhosa: eGoli) (colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, Jo'burg or "The City of Gold") is the most populous city in South Africa with 4,803,262 people, and is classified as a megacity; it is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world.

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John Burland

John Boscawen Burland (born 4 March 1936) is a geotechnical engineer, Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Investigator at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Imperial College London, and a noted expert in the field of soil mechanics.

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John Varty

John Varty (born 27 November 1950) is a South African wildlife filmmaker who has made more than 30 documentaries and one feature film.

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Joseph Wolpe

Joseph Wolpe (20 April 1915 in Johannesburg, South Africa – 4 December 1997 in Los Angeles) was a South African psychiatrist and one of the most influential figures in behavior therapy.

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King Edward VII School, Johannesburg

King Edward VII School (KES) is a public English medium high school for boys situated within the city of Johannesburg in South Africa's Gauteng Province, one of the historically significant Milner Schools. Parktown Boys' High School and King Edward VII School, Johannesburg are boarding schools in South Africa and schools in Johannesburg.

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Lance Louw

Lance Louw (born 12 May 1986 in Kimberley, South Africa) is a South African field hockey player.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Madosh Tambwe

Madosha Michael Tambwe (born 12 May 1997) is a South African rugby union player for Bordeaux Bègles.

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Manfred Gorvy

Manfred S. Gorvy (born 4 May 1938) is a South African billionaire investor and philanthropist based in London.

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Martin Israel

Martin Spencer Israel (30 April 1927 – 23 October 2007) was a British pathologist, Anglican priest, spiritual director and author of numerous books on Christian life and teaching.

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Motto

A motto (derived from the Latin, 'mutter', by way of Italian, 'word' or 'sentence') is a sentence or phrase expressing a belief or purpose, or the general motivation or intention of an individual, family, social group, or organisation.

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Neil McCorkell

Neil Thomas McCorkell (23 March 1912 — 28 February 2013) was an English first-class cricketer.

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Pallance Dladla

Pallance Dladla (born August 22, 1992) is a South African actor.

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Parktown

Parktown is a wealthy suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, and is the first suburb north of the inner city (both chronologically and geographically).

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Paul Bayvel

Paul Campbell Robertson Bayvel (28 March 1949 – 14 April 2020) was a South African rugby union player who played for the national team as a scrum-half.

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Peter Cronjé

Peter Arnold Cronjé (21 September 1949 – 4 September 2020) was a South African rugby union player.

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Pretoria

Pretoria, is South Africa's administrative capital, serving as the seat of the executive branch of government, and as the host to all foreign embassies to South Africa.

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Protea

Protea is a genus of South African flowering plants, also called sugarbushes (Afrikaans: suikerbos).

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Provincial heritage site (South Africa)

Provincial heritage sites in South Africa are places that are of historic or cultural importance within the context of the province concerned and which are for this reason declared in terms of Section 28 of the National Heritage Resources Act (NHRA) or legislation of the applicable province.

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Rand Rebellion

The Rand Rebellion (Rand-rebellie; also known as the 1922 strike) was an armed uprising of white miners in the Witwatersrand region of South Africa, in March 1922.

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Raymond Louw

Raymond Louw (13 October 1926 – 5 June 2019) was a South African journalist, editor, and media commentator in South Africa.

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Regional variations of barbecue

Barbecue varies by the type of meat, sauce, rub, or other flavorings used, the point in barbecuing at which they are added, the role smoke plays, the equipment and fuel used, cooking temperature, and cooking time.

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Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day (also known as Poppy Day owing to the tradition of wearing a remembrance poppy) is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth member states since the end of the First World War to honour armed forces members who have died in the line of duty.

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Roland Brener

Roland Brener (February 22, 1942 – March 22, 2006) was a South African-born Canadian artist.

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Ronnie Grieveson

Ronald Eustace Grieveson (24 August 1909 – 24 July 1998) was a South African cricketer who played in two Tests in 1938–39.

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Rugby Challenge (South Africa)

The Rugby Challenge – known as the SuperSport Rugby Challenge for sponsorship reasons – is the secondary domestic rugby union competition in South Africa.

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Rugby World Cup

The Men's Rugby World Cup is a rugby union tournament contested every four years between the top international teams, the winners of which are recognised as the World champions of the sport.

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SABC

The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is the public broadcaster in South Africa, and provides 19 radio stations (AM/FM) as well as six television broadcasts to the general public.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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South Africa national cricket team

The South Africa men's national cricket team, also known as the Proteas, RSA, represents South Africa in men's international cricket and is administered by Cricket South Africa (CSA).

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South Africa national rugby union team

The South Africa national rugby union team, commonly known as the Springboks (colloquially the Boks, Bokke or Amabhokobhoko), is the country's national team governed by the South African Rugby Union.

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Sparta

Sparta was a prominent city-state in Laconia in ancient Greece.

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St John's College (Johannesburg)

St John's College is a private Anglican day and boarding school situated in Houghton Estate in Johannesburg, South Africa. Parktown Boys' High School and st John's College (Johannesburg) are boarding schools in South Africa and schools in Johannesburg.

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