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WATCH | Hoërskool Hendrik Verwoerd's name has been changed

22 August 2019 - 12:19 By Cebelihle Bhengu

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Hoerskool Hendrik Verwoerd's name has been changed to Rietondale Secondary School.
Image: Twitter/Steve Mabona

The task of removing former SA prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd's name from a school has been completed.

Here we go! pic.twitter.com/3Qcy29NVKc
— Panyaza Lesufi (@Lesufi) August 21, 2019

Now that the apartheid flag is gone, this Friday the name of the Father of Apartheid, HF Verwoerd will also fall from our schools #HFVerwoerd pic.twitter.com/9PQkkcXCJp
— Panyaza Lesufi (@Lesufi) August 21, 2019

In May, Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi approved the renaming of the school. It will now be called Rietondale Secondary School.

Lesufi has always been outspoken about his determination to erase the name of “the architect of apartheid” and others.

“My mission in this world is to reverse everything this man called Verwoerd has done to our education system. Other names, like Jan Smuts, will also fall,” he said.