Waterford Kamhlaba

Waterford Kamhlaba United World College of Southern Africa is one of sixteen international UWC schools and colleges and is located in Mbabane, Swaziland.UWC originated in the ideas of the educationalist Kurt Hahn in the 1950s and the first UWC, Atlantic College, opened in Wales in 1962. Waterford Kamhlaba was established one year later by Michael Stern, in 1963. The school's mission was similar to the philosophy of the international movement, and Waterford became the fourth United World College in 1981.HistoryA new multi-racial schoolWaterford was founded by a group of teachers, led by the young British teacher Michael Stern, as a multi-racial school in opposition to South Africa's apartheid policies. Stern had previously been head of a school in Johannesburg, but the educational policies of the apartheid government in South Africa drove him from the country to Swaziland where he was determined to create a new school in which students of all races could study together and cooperate in community service.The school was founded in 1963. Land on a hillside near Mbabane had been obtained through a grant from the King of Swaziland, and the main buildings were designed by Portuguese-Mozambiquean architect Amâncio d'Alpoim Miranda Guedes, or Pancho Guedes.