{"id":469435,"date":"2011-07-28T05:55:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T05:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/28\/namibia-jan-jonker-celebrates-30-years\/"},"modified":"2011-07-28T05:55:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T05:55:48","slug":"namibia-jan-jonker-celebrates-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/28\/namibia-jan-jonker-celebrates-30-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Jan Jonker Celebrates 30 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"43.0493006191\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newera.com.na\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/newera180.jpg\" alt=\"New Era (Windhoek)\" title=\"Visit New Era (Windhoek)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>27 July 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>The Jan Jonker Afrikaner Secondary School in Katutura celebrates 30 years of existence.<\/p>\n<p>The school took in its first learners in January 1981, and was officially inaugurated on 02 March 1984. In those pre-independence days, the school fell under the Nama Administration for Education. The place the school is situated now was an open space where people dumped their rubbish. In 1979 the principal of A.I.<\/p>\n<p>Steenkamp Primary School, Moses Gariseb, asked his Grade 7 Mathematics teacher, a certain Mr Jansen, to assist in measuring this open piece of land for a school.<\/p>\n<p>Construction started in 1980, and the first principal appointed for this Khoekhoegowap-speaking secondary school was no other than Mr Charles Jansen. Jan Jonker Afrikaner served as the school to which Khoekhoegowap-speaking learners would pass from the primary school A.I. Steenkamp and Moses van der Byl. The school was named after the son of Jagger Afrikaner. He was born at the end of the 18th century in the North Western Cape. He was the most important Orlam Afrikaner Leader.<\/p>\n<p>The first principal, Jansen was succeeded by Theopoltina Namases in 1992. Namases was principal until 1998 and was succeeded by A.G. Pitt in 1998. The school has produced many of the country&#8217;s law-abiding, productive citizens. Some of the high-lights are when Immauel Kharigub was one of the torch bearers in the Barcelona Olympics. In 1996 Patrick Klaaste visited Spain and Venezuela as a &#8220;World Youth Choir&#8221; member.<\/p>\n<p>Jan Jonker&#8217;s was the first school choir to sing the Namibian National Anthem under the composer himself, Axali Do\u00ebseb. It was also the first school to teach French in the region. &#8220;The Star for Life Project&#8221;, a Swedish initiative was launched at Jan Jonker in September 2007. This project is aimed at unleashing learners full of potential by getting them to believe in themselves and teaching them to visualize a better future.<\/p>\n<p>The school currently has 878 learners and positively embarks on the future celebrating their 30 years of existence. The official opening of the celebrations is tomorrow when learners, parents and the community can also look forward to the &#8220;Teachers Parade&#8221; in the evening. The festivities continue until Sunday. The celebrations also include a sports day on Friday at the Katutura Youth Complex and a talent show in the evening on the same day.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday sees a bazaar at the school and the Ms J.J.A Pageant in the evening. The weekend activities ends with a Choir Festival on Sunday evening at Mandume Primary School Hall as the school does not have is own hall.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read the original:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201107280041.html\" title=\"Namibia: Jan Jonker Celebrates 30 Years\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Namibia: Jan Jonker Celebrates 30 Years<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 27 July 2011 The Jan Jonker Afrikaner Secondary School in Katutura celebrates 30 years of existence. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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