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MABANE - From today to September 28, St Marks High School will witness an extraordinary gathering.

The Class of 1992, the cohort that propelled the school back to academic glory with the best Junior Certificate results in 1990, will reunite for the first time in over three decades.

According to the event organiser, Mandisa Ntentesa, this event will be a full weekend of reconnection, celebration and reflection. Old classmates, who once parted ways at the school gates 32 years ago, will come together to mark a milestone that goes beyond time.

The reunion begins on Friday October 26, with a relaxed meet-and-greet session at the Happy Valley Pool side. “It promises heartfelt conversations, laughter and recollections of life in the classrooms and boarding hostels. Many still recall their strict but wise boarding master, Clifford Magongo, who famously reminded them that ‘The world is like a hungry lion waiting to devour you’,” said Ntentesa. Today, they return as living proof that they faced that lion and triumphed.

The programme also includes a sentimental visit to the St Mark’s campus on Saturday October 27 at 10am. Alumni will retrace their steps through familiar corridors and grounds, revisiting youthful escapades - the fences they once cut and squeezed through for secret trips into town, the ceilings they climbed during daring midnight adventures, marking the now dubbed ‘Prison Escape’. They will also reminisce about the school’s annual Speech and Prize-Giving days.

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Event organiser Mandisa Ntentesa. (Pic: Courtesy)