Alumni
Students who had trained at the School included:
- Gibson Kente (1932-2004), playwright
- Ellen Kuzwayo (1914-2006), 1953, educator, social worker, activist, member of the Committee of Ten
- Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela, 1953, a former wife of Nelson Mandela, social worker, activist
- Joshua Nkomo (1917-1999), ca. 1942, Zimbabwean politician
- Louis Petersen, music administrator
- Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane (1920-1969), class of 1948, educator and founder of the Mozambique Liberation Front (1962)
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