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| Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool | |
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Affies | |
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1 Lynnwood Road, Pretoria, 0002 , | |
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| School type | All-boys public school |
| Motto | Laat daar lig wees (Let there be light) |
| Religious affiliation | Christian |
| Established | 28 January 1920; 105 years ago (1920-01-28) |
| Founder | Jan Joubert and Chris Neethling |
| Sister school | Afrikaanse Hoër Meisieskool (Separated in 1930) |
| School number | 012 344 3810 |
| Headmaster | Peregrine Joynt |
| Grades | 8–12 |
| Gender | Male |
| Age | 14 to 18 |
| Number of students | ca. 1,450 |
| Language | Afrikaans |
| Schedule | 07:25 - 13:40 |
| Campus type | Suburban |
| Houses | Day Houses Hartebees Elande Koedoes Hostels Koshuis |
| Colours | Red Yellow Green |
| Mascot | White Brahman Bull - Only for rugby |
| Nickname | Affies |
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| Accreditation | Gauteng Department of Education |
| Newspaper | Stroom Op[1] |
| Yearbook | Die Lig |
| School fees | R55 500 (boarding) R56 460 (tuition) |
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| Affiliation | Non-denominational |
| Website | www www |
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Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool (also known asAffies), is apublicAfrikaans medium high school for boys situated in the suburb of Elandspoort inPretoria in theGauteng province ofSouth Africa. The school was founded in 1920 by Jan Joubert and reverend Chris Neethling.
The school's founding on 28 January 1920 marked the establishment of the first purelyAfrikaans-medium high school in South Africa. The event predated the official recognition of the Afrikaans language by five years. With English as well asDutch established as the official languages in South Africa, many of the Afrikaans-speaking population believed Afrikaans should also enjoy recognition. Afrikaans as language grew so fast thatCJ Langenhoven tabled a motion in theCape Provincial Council to slowly replace Dutch with Afrikaans. This thought was strongly supported by MP Jan Joubert and Chris Neethling. As leaders in the community they quickly organized a group to establish a purely Afrikaans school in Pretoria.
On 27 January 1920, the first acting head, Johannes Arnoldus Kruger de Lange received the new pupils. The first enrollment was a boy named Frederik Botha. There were 35 pupils in form II (grade 9) and 10 in form III (grade 10); 45 in total. De Lange was supported by DJ (Dawie) Malan and MM de Vos who were joined on 11 February by HCP Sack. De Lange later became head at the Commercial Branch at the Pretoria Technical College.
The school with 45 children and 3 teachers was housed in the home of GeneralPiet Joubert at 218 Visagie Street, Central Pretoria.
By 1927, the school had grown and new premises were required. The school was therefore moved eastward to the current premises of theAfrikaanse Hoër Meisieskool, Affies sister-school. At the end of 1927, the school took over the Hogere Oosteindschool, aDutch-medium instruction school, suggestive of the demise of Dutch as a language in South Africa and the assumption of Afrikaans as the primary instruction medium.
By 1929 this building had also run out of space and the decision was made to split the boys and girls into separate schools, thus creating the first separateAfrikaans boys' and girls' schools in South Africa. These two schools are now situated opposite each other in Lynnwood Road.
List of the headmasters of Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool.
| Name | Started | Finished |
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| F.J. le Roux | 1920 | 1946 |
| Dr. G.J. Potgieter | 1947 | 1963 |
| J.A. Fourie | 1964 | 1968 |
| J.D.V Terblanche | 1970 | 1973 |
| N.C. Roesch | 1974 | 1984 |
| T.L.P. Kruger | 1985 | 1991 |
| Dr. P. Edwards | 1992 | 2018 |
| P. W. Joynt | 2019 | present |