Oriel Boys' High School
School in Harare, Zimbabwe
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Oriel Boys' High School is a government school located Chisipite, a suburb of Harare, Zimbabwe.[1] It was established in 1961 based on the British model of education, offering GCE Ordinary and Advanced Level certification in preparation for University education. It's a boys school, with a neighboring sister school, Oriel Girls High School.
Trivia
It has been used as a polling station for both local elections in 2010[2] and national elections five years later.[3] The school is perhaps best known for having played and lost a football match in which the school-boy team was defeating by an opposing team which consisted of much older players; in one case an opposing team's player was thirty-four years old.[4]
Notable alumni
- Andy Flower, cricketer
- Malvin Chiwanga, entrepreneur, CEO of Matrix Petroleum
- Albert Alan Owen, composer
