Oriel Boys' High School

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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 Leve l certification in preparation for University education. It's a boys school, with a neighboring sister school, Oriel Girls High School.

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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

Website

http://www.orielboyshigh.ac.zw/

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  3. "Parliamentary by-elections 2015 BLOG". The Herald . June 10, 2015. Retrieved October 8, 2017.
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