Moletsane High School is a government secondary school in Soweto, South Africa. Founded in 1972 it became a secondary school in 1976. Students from the school were involved in the Soweto Uprising in 1976. The school's public/private partnership and the school's improvements in its results were praised by the South African Minister for Education.The principal in 2011 was Elliot Mashinini who oversees a school that focuses on maths and physics.HistoryThe school was created in 1972 and became a secondary school in 1976, the same year as the Soweto Uprising. The uprising was led by Soweto schoolchildren protesting the imposition of Afrikaans as the language to be used in schools. Children from Moletsane, Naledi High School and Morris Isaacson High School were amongst those involved from the early morning of 16 June 1976. The protests led to school children being shot and South Africa politics being condemned internationally.The following August the South African police raided the school and shot two children, killing one and wounding the other. Eighteen teachers and over 100 students were arrested by the police, who said that children were receiving lessons in "making bombs and booby traps". In 1985 police visited the school and fired tear gas, which affected both the school and the nearby Entokozweni Early Learning Centre, a day care. The incident was reported internationally and the police said that they were trying to stop Moletsane students from joining a boycott, an idea already rejected by the students.
