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Old Groenberg School Wellington district, Western Cape

Date: n.d. Type: School Status: Extant

This school was built in the 1860s. CP Hoogenhout, who played an important part in the first phase of the Afrikaans movement, was a teacher there from 3 August 1874 until the beginning of the twentieth century, and much of his important work was done there. Hoogenhout was born in Amsterdam in 1843 and died in Wellington in 1922. [Richardson Deidré, 2001. Historic Sites of South Africa. Cape Town: Struik Publishers. p, 163.] Proclaimed a Monument by Proclamation No. 2053 dated 1968 11 08. All truncated references not fully cited below are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon.