Friday 16 October 2015 was a very special day in the history of Tiger Kloof. We opened of the Old Tigers' Hall (which use to be a girls dining hall before apartheid's Bantu Education Act closed the school). The renovated building is dedicated to the memory of all the Old Tigers who attended the institution from 1904 until it was closed in 1962. The building had been derelict for 52 years until last year, when a grant from the Anglo American Chairman's Fund enabled renovation of the old school's girls dining hall.
Amongst the honoured guests was Archbishop of Cape Town Njongonkulu Ndungane, Sir Ketumile Masire former president of Botswana, Dr. Gaositwe Chiepe (Botswana's first minister of education) and Archie Mogwe (Botswana's first minister of foreign affairs). The occasion would have been co-hosted by Dr. Ruth Mompati (former South African ambassador to Switzerland), who was a former student and patron of the school. Sadly she passed away this year.
The Old Dining Hall
Tiger's Hall 2015
Brief History of Tiger Kloof Educational Institution
Tiger Kloof Educational Institution was founded in March 1904 twelve kilometres south of Vryburg, where the Rev. WC Willoughby unpacked a borrowed wagon and started to build a school with great cooporation and assitance from the...
