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Kayamandi Secondary School is a Xhosa

Xhosa language

Xhosa is one of the official languages of South Africa. Xhosa is spoken by approximately 7.9 million people, or about 18% of the South African population. Like most Bantu languages, Xhosa is a tonal language, that is, the same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meanings when said...

-medium school serving grades 8-12 in located Kayamandi

Kayamandi

Kayamandi is a suburb of Stellenbosch in the Western Cape region of South Africa.Kayamandi is located on the outskirts of Stellenbosch. Kayamandi, ironically a Xhosa term for “pleasurable home”, was founded in the early 1950s as part of the increased segregation during the Apartheid regime...

, Stellenbosch, in the Western Cape

Western Cape

The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

region of South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

. The Western Cape Education Department

Western Cape Education Department

The Western Cape Education Department is the department of the Government of the Western Cape responsible for primary and secondary education within the Western Cape province of South Africa...

categorizes it as the only purely Xhosa-speaking secondary school in the region.

As of 2006 the school had some 1,493 students.

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