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- ↑ American International School of Johannesburg home page. Retrieved February 10, 2015.
- 1 2 "Pretoria Campus" (Archive), American International School of Johannesburg. Retrieved February 10, 2015.
- ↑ "Pretoria Campus". American International School of Johannesburg. Retrieved February 10, 2015.
