Water Wheel July/August 2020: Water Personality

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Roland Schulze – A lifetime dedicated to water Growing up in the village of Harburg in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, Roland Schulze attended a very intimate little school. There were only 26 pupils in the whole school, spread through from Grade 1 – 8. Young Roland was always first in his class, though he is quick to point out that there was only one other boy in class – the son of the local dipping inspector, who always came second. “We had one teacher for four classes, but they were very progressive and often we would have lessons under the trees, where we would build models of the local landscape or listen to Mozart for music appreciation.” As his Matric year drew closer, Schulze moved to the Hermannsburg Deutsche Schule to complete the last four years of high school. Hermannsburg, the oldest private school in the province, was established in 1856 to educate the children of Lutheran Church missionaries, many of whom would settle in nearby villages, such as Wartburg, Harburg or New Hanover (Neu-Hannover).

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