{{More citations needed|date=August 2009}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2018}} {{Infobox school | name = Prince Edward School | logo = Prince Edward School logo.png | alt = PE Badge | caption = Prince Edward School Badge | motto = '''Tot Facienda Parum Factum''' | motto_translation = {{langx|la|So much to do, So little done}} | address = | city = Harare | country = Zimbabwe | coordinates = {{coord|-17.8205|31.0350|type:edu_region:ZW|display=inline,title}} | type = State school, boarding and day school | established = {{Start date|df=y|1898|06|13}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peschool.co.zw/index.php/about-us/history.html|title=Our History}}</ref> | headmaster = Dr. Aggrippa G. Sora<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peschool.co.zw/index.php/about-us/from-the-headmaster.html|title=From the Headmaster }}</ref> | gender = Boys | lower_age = 13 | upper_age = 19 | system = Zimbabwean | language = | schedule = | classrooms = | campuses = | area = | colours = Maroon, green and white | song = | fight_song = | athletic_conference = | sports = | mascot = Tiger | nickname = PES | houses = *Odzi *Shashi *Tokwe *Sebakwe *Runde *Save *Limpopo *Zambezi | rival = St George's College, Harare | accreditation = | national_ranking = | decile = | publication = | newspaper = The Hararian | yearbook = | budget = | revenue = | communities = | graduates = | affiliations = | alumni = Old Hararians | nobel_laureates = | information = | website = {{URL|www.peschool.co.zw}} | footnotes = | picture = | picture_caption = | picture2 = | picture_caption2 = | enrollment = 1200+ | classes_offered = | schedule_type = | hours_in_Day = | campus = | campus_size = | campus_type = | campus_Bound = | colors = | mascot image = | vision = | test_name = | test_average = | products = | endowment = | tuition = | feeder_schools = | free_label2 = Badges | free_text2 = The Three Feathers | free_label = Postal address | free_text = P.O. Box CY418, Causeway <br> Harare <br> Zimbabwe }}
'''Prince Edward School''' (or '''Prince Edward''', commonly referred to as '''PE''') is a public, boarding and day school for boys aged 13 to 19 in Harare, Zimbabwe. It provides education facilities to 1200+ boys in Forms I to VI. The school is served by a graduate staff of over 100 teachers.
Prince Edward School was ranked 6th out of the top 100 best high schools in Africa by Africa Almanac in 2003, based upon quality of education, student engagement, strength and activities of alumni, school profile, internet and news visibility.<ref name="top20highschools">{{cite web |url= http://www.africaalmanac.com/top20highschools.html |title= top20highschools |date= 1 October 2003 |website= Africa Almanac |publisher= Africa Almanac |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070114052056/http://www.africaalmanac.com/top20highschools.html#11 |archive-date= 14 January 2007 |url-status= dead |access-date= 19 June 2016 |quote= The research leading up to the publication of the 100 Best High Schools in Africa began with the launching of the website in December 2000.}}</ref> Prince Edward School was also ranked as one of the Top 10 High Schools in Zimbabwe in 2014.<ref name="Top 10 High Schools in Zimbabwe">{{cite web |author = DarrylYV8 |url= http://youthvillage.co.zw/2014/10/top-10-high-schools-in-zimbabwe/|title= Top 10 High Schools in Zimbabwe |date= 9 October 2014 |website= Youth Village Zimbabwe |publisher= Youth Village Zimbabwe |accessdate= 5 January 2015}}</ref>
== History == Prince Edward was established in 1898 in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe), as Salisbury Grammar. It was renamed Salisbury High School in 1906 and adopted its current name in 1925 when visited by Edward, Prince of Wales.<ref>{{citation|editor=D. Berens|editor-link=D. Berens|year=1988|title=A Concise Encyclopedia of Zimbabwe|publisher=Mambo Press|location=Gweru|page=317}}.</ref> It is the second oldest boys' school in Harare and in Zimbabwe after its main sporting rival, St George's College.
The School's badge is a crown and three feathers, granted to it by Prince Edward (later King Edward VIII of the UK) in the 1920s. The school's colours are maroon and dark green. For its centenary, Prince Edward School adopted a new coat of arms which does not replace the school's badge. The motto of the school "Tot Facienda Parum Factum" ("So much to do, So little done") is attributed as Cecil John Rhodes' last words.
In 2010 a former master at the school, Douglas Robb, became headmaster of Oswestry School in England and developed links between the two schools.<ref>Tim Jefferis, [http://tjjteacher.com/post/douglas-robb-this-is-your-life "Douglas Robb: This is Your Life"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327162044/http://tjjteacher.com/post/douglas-robb-this-is-your-life |date=27 March 2019 }} dated 7 September 2014 at tjjteacher.com, accessed 27 March 2019</ref>
=== Name controversy === In 2002, before the March 2002 presidential elections, the Ministry of Education announced plans to change names of all government schools that had colonial connotations.<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/britains-colonial-heritage-is-wiped-out-across-the-nation-names-659721.html Government School names]{{dead link|date=August 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> Scores of government schools were set to have their names changed to honour liberation war heroes, past national and African personalities and/or the suburban area in which the school is located. Prince Edward School was set to be renamed Murenga Boys High School after a Njelele high spirit said to have assisted the local heroes who fought the First Chimurenga of 1896–7. The change of names did not occur but in its wake, as a compromise, the Games Houses within the school had their colonial names changed to those of rivers in Zimbabwe. thumb|Jubilee field
== Alumni == Prince Edward old boys are called "Old Hararians". The Old Hararians Association was founded in 1922 and maintains very close ties with the school.
The Old Hararians cricket team is based the Old Hararians Sports Club in Harare, and fields a team in the Vigne Cup, the Harare Metropolitan Cricket League, as well as the National League for club cricket. Old Hararians contain many national team and "A" team, such as Vusi Sibanda, Prosper Utseya and Ryan Butterworth.<ref>Brmtaylor.com list of club cricketers [http://www.brmtaylor.com/club_players.html "Brendan Taylor – Zimbabwe Club Cricket Players"]</ref>
===Notable alumni=== {{See also|Category:Alumni of Prince Edward School}} * Allan Anderson - Pentecostal minister and theologian * Miles Anderson – actor * Kevin Arnott<ref name=SRRSS>{{citation|editor=I.P. Maclaren|editor-link=I.P. Maclaren|year=1981|title=Some Renowned Rhodesian Senior Schools 1892 - 1979|publisher=Books of Zimbabwe|location=Bulawayo|pages=233–239}}</ref> – cricketer * Sir Hugh Beadle<ref name=SRRSS/> – lawyer, politician and judge * Pieter Benade - rugby player and coach * Eddo Brandes – cricketer * John Bredenkamp<ref name=SRRSS/> – rugby player and businessman * Ryan Butterworth – cricketer * Tonderai Chavanga – rugby union player * Graeme Cremer – cricketer * Colin Dowdeswell<ref name=SRRSS/> – tennis player * Jackie du Preez<ref name=SRRSS/> – cricketer * Duncan Fletcher<ref name=SRRSS/> – cricketer * Robert Gwaze – chess player * Graeme Hick<ref name=HickBio>{{cite book|last1=Hick|first1=Graeme|title=My Early Life|date=1991|publisher=Macmillan|location=London|pages=9–10}}</ref> – cricketer * David Houghton<ref name=SRRSS/> – cricketer * Tino Kadewere - footballer * Sam Levy – businessman and property developer * Rodwell Makoto – chess player * James Manyika – consultant, academic, Rhodes Scholar *Evan Mawarire – pastor and democratic activist * Barry May<ref name=SRRSS/> – cricketer and Rhodes Scholar * Peter McLaughlin – academic, historian, and educator * Mark McNulty<ref name=SRRSS/><ref name=HickBio/> – golfer * John McPhun<ref name=SRRSS/> – cricketer * Iain Mills - Conservative Party politician in The House of Commons * Leonard Ray Morgan<ref name=SRRSS/> – educationalist * Lucian Msamati – actor * David Mutendera – cricketer * Faustine Ndugulile – politician and Tanzanian member of parliament * Trevor Penney – cricketer * John Plagis<ref>{{cite book|title=Who's Who of Southern Africa |year=1973 |location=Cape Town |publisher=Ken Donaldson |oclc=1769850 |page=1230}}</ref> – pilot * David E. Potter – businessman and engineer * Nick Price<ref name=SRRSS/><ref name=HickBio/> – golfer * Ian Robertson<ref name=SRRSS/> – Springbok rugby player * Douglas Rogers<ref>{{cite book|author=Rogers, Douglas|title=The Last Resort}}</ref> �� writer * Herbert Schwamborn – musician * Colin Smith – rower * Alexander Steele – Scottish architect and cricketer * Colin Style - poet and writer * Edmoore Takaendesa – rugby player * Wrex Tarr<ref name=SRRSS/> – comedian and archer * Russell Tiffin – cricket umpire * Denis Tomlinson<ref name=SRRSS/> – cricketer * Sir Robert Tredgold,<ref name=TedgoldBio>{{cite book|last1=Tredgold|first1=Robert|title=The Rhodesia that was my life|date=1968|publisher=George Allen and Unwin|location=London}}</ref> K.C.M.G., judge, politician and Rhodes Scholar * Kennedy Tsimba – rugby player * Mark Vermeulen – cricketer
== See also == {{Portal bar|Schools}}
* List of schools in Zimbabwe * List of boarding schools
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == *[http://www.peschool.co.zw Prince Edward School website] *[https://www.peoldhararians.org Old Hararians website]
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