Naledi High School

Naledi High School is a government secondary school at 892 Nape Street in Soweto. The school took an important role at the start of the Soweto Uprising in 1976.HistoryThe school was founded in 1963.On 1 July 1974 there was a bus accident that involved a number of pupils from the school and ten were killed. Today there is a plaque recording the Lourenco Marques Bus disaster and its victims in the school grounds. The plaque was unveiled thirty years after the accident.2009On 8 June 1976 the South African Police attempted to arrest Enos Ngutshane who was the local leader of the South African Students Movement. He had written a letter of protest to the Minister for Education to protest that subjects like history, geography and mathematics would be taught through the medium of Afrikaans. The police failed to apprehend him and the police were stoned and a Volkswagen Beetle was set on fire by the students. Ngutshane was not arrested until a week later and he was in court when the Soweto Uprising started. Students had gathered at Naledi High School to walk to Morris Isaacson High School in Jabavu. The plan was to gather at Orlando Stadium but before that the Police arrived and school children were shot.The school achieved a pass rate of 8% but they were able to increase that to 61% in 2000.AlumniNotable alumni include: Enos Ngutshane – activist, now a managerZanele Mthemb – Gauteng department of education's chief directorFrank Chikane – former presidency director-generalPopo Molefe – North West premierDan Molefe – diplomatMike Siluma – South African Broadcasting Corporation acting chief operations officer