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Kuschke was named after Mr. G.A Kuschke who was an administrator of the Transvaal
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Education Department before 1935.
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Bekker was the founder of the idea of schools like Kuschke.
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Jimmy Dey was the original architect of Kuschke.
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On 6 July 1935 Mr. Grove Steyn came to Kuschke to see the land before the school was even built.
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He was the first Headmaster of Kuschke and left in 1952.
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On 31 December 1935 Mr. Steyn and his family moved onto Kuschke grounds.
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On January 1936 the building of the school started in all earnest.
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Also half way through 1936 they started building the 6 Hostels, dining hall, kitchen, storerooms and teacher accommodation.
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On 9 February 1937 – 75 grade 7 – 10 learners moved into the hostels.
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The school would have officially been opened on 11 February 1937 but due to heavy rains people could not travel to the school.
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The school was officially opened on 3 May 1937.
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In 1946 all the Provincial committee members visited Kuschke with General Pienaar.
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Bekker died suddenly in July 1938.
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Kuschke – the person after which the school was named – was now no longer directly involved with the school system as he got promoted.
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In 1945 there was more than 400 students in Kuschke, that was when the school was split up.
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On 10 April 1945 the split took place – 159 students went to the junior school in Marabastad – this school went up to grade 5, school now called Chris Hofmeyr. Kuschke took student from grade 7 and totaled 285 students with 97% attendance.
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The school grew in numbers and went from strength to strength.
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Grové Steyn Hostel was named after him and Vickey Steyn Hostel after his wife.
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All the other hostels is named after trees that grows in the area.