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Huibregtse, p7, 1973: 1900 Catumbella cyclists 1900 Angolan girls orphanage 1900s Angola, plains of Mossamedes, Boer wagon-train crossing the river Caculovar 1905 Governor Costa disembarking in Mossamedes 1905 Bull fight in honor of Governor Costa 1908 Mossamedes Boer Caravan in city streets 1914 Angola, Humpata, Visit of administrator Alves Rocadas 1910s Catholic Mission students 1915 WW1 Port. soldiers traveling in Sa da Bandeira 1917 Angola Lubango parochial church 1920 Dondi residences 1920s Mossamedes Beached Whale 1929 Angola Benguela Banco National Ultramarino, founded 1868 1920 Grandpa Roque 1920s Hotel Sa da Bandeira 1920s Angola, a mixed school 1930s Bela Vista first church 1930s Gathering at Banco National UltraMarino, founded 1868 1930s Cutchio, Angola - Mission church 1930s Luango - Catholic Mission 1930 Children on a Sunday 1930 Church Leaders 1930 Pereira family 1930s Antonio & Bernadina Brunido 1930s Belavista, Angola 1930s Bela Vista school 1930s Angola, familia Costa 1931 BelaVista, da Costa family 1930s Bela Vista First Church 1930s Belavista, brothers Manuel & Antonio Rodrigues 1930s Angola Sporting Football Club 1933 Bela Vista - Maria Teresa 1935 Bela Vista Church Group 1936 Bela Vista - Mr Wilson 1936 Angola Oct23 Mr Wilson 1938 Belavista, Teresa 1939 Belavista, Second Church Inauguration 1939 Belavista, Church youth club 1939 Bela Vista Childrens club 1939 Angola Ladies meeting 1939 Bela Vista Church get-together 1939 Inauguration new Church of BelaVista 1940 Belavista New Church 1940s Bie, Angola - English Mission Outstation 1940s Bie, Angola - English Mission Outstation 1940s Bie, Angola - English Mission Teachers 1940s Bailundu, Angola - Catholic mission 1940 Church Picknick 1940s Dondi Hospital 1940s Grandfather at Church 1940s Bela Vista Boys Club 1940s Bela Vista Church Youth Group 1940s Bela Vista Dedication Of babies at church 1940s Angola, Esmeralda and Ernest Wilson 1940s Bela Vista Church outing 1940s Bela Vista Ladies Church Group 1940s Crossing the river Quando 1940s Mission school at Quessua 1940s Ladies at Sunday school 1940s Ladies at Sunday school 1940s Youth group at Nova Lisboa 1940s Bela Vista church 1940s Bela Vista Cinema 1940s Dondi - Currie Institute 1940s Hospital DONDI, Ondjango branch 1940s Hospital DONDI, outpatient care 1940s Hospital DONDI nurses 1940s Quessua Mission 1940s Newly Constructed Dondi Insitute - School 1941 Bela Vista Pentacost Sunday 1941 Bela Vista Pentacost Sunday 1941 Bela Vista Pentacost Sunday 1941 Bela Vista Pentacost Sunday 1942 Bela Vista youth society 1944 Bela Vista Embroidering class 1944 Bela Vista - Teresa Roque at camp 1945 Angola, girls summer camp 1945 Angola, at summer camp 1945 Angola, kids at summer camp 1945 Angola, girls at summer camp 1945 Dondi, girls at summer camp 1946 Dondi, girls at summer camp 1946 Dondi, girls at summer camp 1946 Angola, girls at Bela Vista station of the Benguela Railway 1946 Dondi camp, girls volleyball team 1947 Dondi, girls at summer camp 1947 Dondi, girls at summer camp 1947 Angola, girls at summer camp 1947 Radio Club of Mossamedes 1947 Angola, girls at summer camp 1948 Angola, girls at summer camp 1948 Bela Vista Church Youth club, with Ceu & Ruth 1949 Angola, girls at summer camp 1949 Angola, girls at summer camp 1949 Teresa at Camp Dondi 1949 Bela Vista church 1949 Bela Vista Pentecost Sunday 1949 sisters Ceu & Ruth Rodrigues 1954 Porto Alexandre - Arrival President Higínio Craveiro 1950s Professors at Dondi Institute 1950s Ceu teaching at Bungei Mission School 1950 Girls Summer Camp at Dondi 1950s Baptism of Alice Smedes & Antonio Rodrigues 1950s United Church of Canada Missionaries at Dondi 1950s Believers at Bela Vista Church 1950s Joao Gomes, Ruth Roque, Ceu, Albertino Rodr. 1950s Sa da Bandeira 1950s College Students at School 'das Madres' 1950s Bungei Mission School Students 1950s Bungei Mission School teachers 1950s Meeting at the Silva Porto Church 1950s Aunt Ceu at Bungei Mission School 1950s in front of the Gomes House 1950s Silva Porto Monument 1950 Rodrigues family with Arthur Wilson 1952 in front of Belavista Church 1952 Luanda, Cinema Restauracao 1950s Nova Lisboa, Cinema Ruacana and Hotel 1950s Nova Lisboa, Praca Manuel Arriaga Square 1960s Angola, Nova Lisboa - Governor's Palace 1952 Angola, Belavista Youth 1952 Angola Emidio & Armindo on Sept24 1952 Youth at Belavista 1953 Dondi mission school 1953 Arthur Wilson 1954 Church gathering at Belavista 1954 Belavista, Rodrigues Family 1954 Angola, Porto Alexandre - Arrival of President Higínio Craveiro 1953 Rodrigues family in Belavista 1954 Angola Nova Lisboa, by Carolyn Parsons 1960s Church 1960s Dondi Mission Institute 1960s Serpa Pinto 1960s Serpa Pinto 1960s Serpa Pinto Governor's residence 1960s Lutamo Mission Church 1960s Hospital in Sa da Bandeira 1960s Department of Agriculture, Nova Lisboa 1960s Angola, Luanda, Lyceu Salvador Correia de Sa 1960s Angola, Luanda, Lyceu Salvador Correia de Sa 1960s Angola, Sa da Bandeira / Lubango Liceu Diogo Cao 1960s Angola Aero Clube de Mossamedes 1960s Angola, Luanda Aeroporto Craveiro Lopes 1960s Angola, South African House of Commerce ZUID 1960s Angola, Cinema Chiloango 1963 Luanda, Cine Atlantico, designed by Antonio Ribeiro dos Santos 1960s Angola, Cinema Mossamedes, designed by Botelho Vasconcelos 1960s Lobito Cine-Teatro Imperium 1960s Lobito City Hall 1960s Benguela, Hotel Mombaka 1961 Escola Commercial & Industrial 'Sarmento Rodrigues' at Nova Lisboa 1961 Commercial & Industrial School in Sa da Bandeira 1961 Angola, Luanda Av. Paulo Dias de Novias: Mass Popular Protest against communist terrorists 1964 Placa do Aeroporto de Mossamedes 1964 Champion Athletic Club at Airport of Mossamedes 1964 - Angola - 3 generations with grandma & son Pires, Teresa with OIR, Dr Lois and nurse Mabel Johnson 1966 Angola, Catota, Rodrigues house 1969 Huila, Sa da Bandera 1970s Dondi Mission School 1970s Angola, Luanda, Liceu Salvador Correia 1970s Luanda, Transport to the Isle of Mussulo 1972 Angola Swim-Team - Equipa de Angola 1973 Angola, Luanda, Gymnastics festival at Coqueiros stadium 1973 Angola, Luanda: Liceu National (Peixoto Correia) de Benguela 1973 soccer, Fernando Roque at Lobito 1973 Angola, Luanda Jumbo Hypermarket 1974 soccer, Antonio Roque for Perestrelo at Lobito 1974 soccer, Fernando Roque at Lobito mid 1970s having a lot, but wanting it all Adeus Angola! Back to top Angola Academia / Schools / Escolas until 1975 Angola’s pre-1975 educational system was open to all races, without quotas. Demographically, most of the 350,000 whites lived in the cities and railroad towns they built in Angola since 1498 (Luanda 1576, Benguela 1617, Silva Porto 1750, Mossamedes 1840, Lobito 1843, Nova Lisboa/Huambo 1912), and blacks, who also arrived in the last 500 years, from the distant north, lived in the more traditionally rural tribal areas (where many missions provided education in mission schools, see examples above). Every one of Angola’s 18 district capitals offered primary and secondary education. Universities and their campuses were found in population centres like the capital Luanda, and cities like Benguela, Lubango and Cabinda. Elementary school (Escola Primaria) starting at at age 7 consisted of 4yrs plus 1yr prep to determine which secondary school to follow. Vocational school was for those who did not take the 1yr prep year and exam. They went to a 4yr vocational school (Escola Pratica e Comercio, or Comercio e Industrial) to learn useful commercial skills or a trade, prior to on the job training and apprenticeships. Secondary school (Lyçeu) was for those who passed the 1yr prep year at the end of primary school. They went to a secondary matriculation school lasting 7 yrs (consisting of 2yrs general ed, then 3 yrs with nine subjects which all had to be passed (4 letters plus 5 sciences), and the 2 last yrs specialization, choosing from seven groups of six subjects each, to qualify for university. Conversely, one could choose to take the entrance exam to a Technical Institute which produced Angola's technical specialists, with the Universities producing Angola's engineers, who worked in industry, airports, railways, mining, (veterinary) medicine, forestry & agronomy (as major exporter of bananas, sugercane, sisal, and 4th largest exporter of coffee), hydro-electric dams, and since the early 1960's, the offshore oil industry. Post-script 1975, the end: Most of the whites fleeing for their lives, many leaving everything behind, at the violent Soviet take-over of prosperous Angola in 1975, as happened in countries like Congo & Mozambique, and later Zimbabwe & South Africa, the Angolan whites were accused of 'robbing the country of their expertise' (as socialism always seems to require capitalist paymasters). Once in Portugal, adding insult to injury, destitute refugees, aka 'retornados', were blamed during the next 20 years for Portugal's subsequent decline, and the socialist government's cowardly abandonment of 350,000 Angolans, including Mario Soares' complete mismanagement of the situation, sadly leaving the European community taxpayers to bail Portugal out! Meanwhile, Angola's new masters, the Marxist Russians and Chinese, while condemning black people to civil wars, inevitable corruption and abject poverty, proceeded to enrich and arm themselves with the spoils of their African armed revolutions in one of the greatest illegal transfers of wealth, needed to sustain their internally weak communist regimes. Meanwhile, the new Angola, once an enterprising society of well-educated people, now depends for 90% of its income on the sale of oil. 1920s Angola, a mixed gov't school 1920s Students at Currie Institute, Dondi Mission school 1920s Camundongo Mission School 1920s Angola, graduation at Means School, Dondi Mission school 1920s Camundongo Mission school and Printing Press 1920s Angola, Escola Primaria em Ambriz, foto J de Morais 1937 Escola Portugal primary school, Prof Isabel Barrera, Mossamedes 1940s Bailundu, Angola - Catholic mission 1940 Mossamedes Escola 55, with prof D Berta 1940s Angola, newly-built Dondi Mission School 1940s Mission school at Quessua 1940s Bie, Angola - English Mission Teachers 1940 Escola Portugal primary school, Mossamedes 1940 Escola Portugal primary school, Mossamedes 1941 Mossamedes, Colegio de Nossa Senhora de Fatima 1945 Mossamedes, Colegio de Nossa Senhora de Fatima 1944 Mossamedes, Escola 49 1945 Mossamedes, Escola 45, Professora Maximina 1947 Escola Pratica de Pesca e Comercio, Mossamedes 1948 Escola Pratica de Pesca e Comercio, Mossamedes (Fishing & Trade) 1949 Mossamedes, Colégio de Nossa Senhora de Fatima, Casa Santa Filomena 1950 Mossamedes, Colegio de Nossa Senhora de Fatima 1950 Mossamedes, Escola Portugal 4th class , with prof Marques 1950 Mossamedes, Colegio Missoes 1950s Mossamedes, Colegio de Nossa Senhora de Fatima 1952 Mossamedes, Colegio de Nossa Senhora de Fatima 1950s Mossamedes, Colegio de Nossa Senhora de Fatima 1950s Mossamedes, Colegio de Nossa Senhora de Fatima 1950 Mossamedes, Escola Portugal 1950s Mossamedes, Liceu Almirante Americo Tomas 1950s Mossamedes, Escola Paiva Couceiro no 45, Professora Lia 1952 Mossamedes, Colegio de Nossa Senhora de Fatima, Colegio das Doroteias 1955 Mossamedes, Escola Primaria N56. director Jose Duarte 1956 Sa da Bandeira (Lubango), Liceu Diogo Cao 1953 Mossamedes, Colegio de Nossa Senhora de Fatima, Casa Santa Filomena 1956 Mossamedes, Escola Comercial e Industrial Infante Henrique 1956 Mossamedes, Escola Comercial e Industrial Infante Henrique ECIIDH 1957 Mossamedes, Escola Comercial e Industrial Infante Henrique ECIIDH 1957 Mossamedes, Escola Comercial e Industrial Infante Henrique ECIIDH 1950 Angola, Huambo, Escola Primaria Rui de Sousa, 3d class 1950 Luanda, Lyceu National Salvador Correia 1950s Angola, Escola Alexandre Herculano 1960s Luanda, Lyceu Feminino Guiomar de Lencastre 1960 Mossamedes, Escola do Bairro Salgado, 4classe 1950s Angola, Huila, Lyceu Nacional, professors and alumni 1950s Lubango, Alunas Colegio das Madres 1960s Lubango, Colegio das Madres or Paula Frassinete 1960 Mossamedes Escola Comercial e Industrial Infante Henrique, watching a game 1960 Luanda Colegio S. José Cluny 1960 Escola de Regentes Agricolas, Lubango 1960 Escola de Regentes Agricolas 'Dr. Francisco Machado' 1960s Nova Lisboa - Instituto Superior de Agronomia 1960 Angola Luanda, Escola Industrial 1960s Luanda, Colegio Jose Cluny 1960s Angola, Sa da Bandeira Colegio Padre Frassinete 1960s Sa da Bandeira, Escola Agro Pecuaria do Tchi 1960 Mossamedes, Escola Portugal 1961 Angola, Escola Comercial de Mossamedes (until 1952 Escola Practica de Pesca e Comercio) 1961 Escola Comercial & Industrial 'Sarmento Rodrigues', Nova Lisboa 1961 Escola Comercial & Industrial, Sa da Bandeira 1960 Sa da Bandeira (Lubango) Liceu Diogo Cao, Aula 1960s Angola Lubango, Diogo Cao 1960s Nova Lisboa / Huambo, Colegio Ateniense 1960s Angola, Liceu de Benguela, renamed in 1967 Lyceu National Com. Peixoto Correia 1960 Sa da Bandeira Elementary School 1960, Sa da Bandeira, Lyceu Diogo Cao 1963 Mossamedes, 1963 Colegio de Nossa Senhora de Fatima 1963 Mossamedes, 1963 Colegio de Nossa Senhora de Fatima 1963 Mossamedes, 1963 Colegio de Nossa Senhora de Fatima 1963 Mossamedes,1963 Colegio de Nossa Senhora de Fatima 1964 Escola de Regentes Agricolas 'Dr. Francisco Machado' Excursion of graduates 1964 Sa da Bandeira Lyceu Diogo Cao 1960 Luanda, Lyceu Feminino D.Guiomar de Lencastre 1960s Angola, Escola Industrial e Comercial do Luso 1960s Angola, Cubal, Escola Primaria 1964 Sa da Bandeira (Lubango), Liceu Diogo Cao 1965 Nova Lisboa, Veterinary School 1966 Luanda Lyceu Salvador Correia, 1st day; foto J.Ferreira 1966 Angola, Liceu Salvador Correia 1966 Angola, Liceu Salvador Correia 1966 Angola, Mossamedes, Graduating Class ECIIDH 1966-1967 Mossamedes, Graduating Class ECIIDH 1966 Angola, Mossamedes, Graduating Class ECIIDH 1966 Students in Front of Post Office with teacher Hermengarda 1966 Liceu Salvador Correia, Luanda 1966 Liceu Salvador Correia 1966 Mossamedes, Colegio de Nossa Senhora de Fatima 1967 Mossamedes, Escola Paiva Couceiro no 45, Professora Maximina 1960s Angola, Luanda, Lyceu Salvador Correia de Sa 1969 Luanda, Lyceu National Salvador Correia 1971 Liceu National Salvador Correia, by JC Pinheira 1972 Mossamedes Escola Comercial e Industrial Infante Henrique 1973 Luanda, Liceu Guiomar de Lencastre 1973 Luanda, Liceu Guiomar de Lencastre 1973 Luanda, Liceu Guiomar de Lencastre 1973 Luanda, Liceu Guiomar de Lencastre 1970s Angola, Nova Lisboa, Lyceu Nacional Norton de Matos /Escola C & I 'Sarmento Rodrigues' 1973 Luanda, Liceu National Salvador Correia 1973 Luanda, Lyceu Salvador Correia Biblioteca 1970s Angola, Luanda, Liceu Nacional Salvador Correia 1973 Angola, Escola Primaria de Benguela 'Luis Gomes Sambo' Graduation 1973 Angola, Escola Primaria de Benguela 'Luis Gomes Sambo' Graduation 1973 Angola, Liceu de Benguela, renamed in 1967 Lyceu National Com. Peixoto Correia, preps for carnaval post 1975 Lyceu Salazar de Carmona (seen from the Carmona Road to Songo) 1970s Lubango_Escolas de Regentes Agrocolas Francisco Machado 1970s Huambo, Liceu Nacional Norton de Matos 4th class math test Some related sites / Angolan blogs (in Port.) Portuguese2English translation site (up to 1000 words) Adeus Angola (YouTube video) riodosbonssinais.blogspot - Retornados blog discussing the 1974 communist revolution in Portugal, and the sudden, narrow escape by over 300,000 Angolans Nhamalanda - Our Story site (from Madeira to Angola) Story of the Madeirans settling Southern Angola and creating the town of Lubango (Sa da Bandeira) Online read of 'Drums in the Darkness', by John T. Tucker, 1927 Story of the 1961 massacres of white Angolans by black terrorists in Angola, by angolaterranossa.blogspot angolaterranossa.blogspot.com coisasdeantigamente-marr.blogspot.com - vintage Sa da Bandeira (Lubango) pictures angolalubango.com.sapo.pt - Lubango / Sa da Bandeira page (Port.) Lunango Escola Comercial e Industrial comandante Sarmento Rodrigues tchivinguiro.bravejournal.com: - Lubango Escola de Regentes Agricola 'dr Francisco Machado' Mossamedes, history of secondary education. Women students and graduates Jovens senhoras de Mocamedes - women students blog about Colegio de Nossa Senhora de Fatima, Mossamedes 1950-51 princesa-do-namibe.blogspot.com - 1955/56 Escola Comercial Mossamedes princesa-do-namibe.blogspot.com - Mossamedes Escola Comercial e Industrial Inf Henrique, 1956/57 princesa-do-namibe.blogspot.com - Colegio Comercial & Industrial Inf. Henrique 1960, Mossamedes blog about Colegio de Nossa Senhora de Fatima, Mossamedes 1963, 5th year princesa-do-namibe.blogspot.com - Mossamedes Desportiva - Sportspage Mossamedes Sport page princesa-do-namibe.blogspot.com - Angola Antiga memoriasdomeubairro.blogspot.com - old primary school materials sandularte.blogspot.com - Escola Primaria Paiva Couceiro - Caluquembe FotosNamibe.Blogspot.com - many old Mossamedes pictures Car Races in Mossamedes 1973 - memoriasdesportivas.blogspot memoriasdesportivas.blogspot.com - Angola Mossamedes Football - Soccer Pictures - cubal-angola.blogspot.com - Cubal Sports Page Shianeurosepoetadurbe.blogspot.com - many Before/After Angola pictures kantophotomatico.blogspot.com - Lyceu Nacional de Salvador Correia, Luanda Faded colors: Present-day Angola people pictures, by C. Pires Angola - Banco National history in Angola, buildings and money bcavalaria8423.blogspot.com - Angola, Carmona 'Knights of the North' Cavaleiros do Norte - where much terrorism took place rogegill.blogspot.com - sell-out of Angola, Mozambique and others by the socialists under chief executioner Mario Soares delagoabayworld.wordpress.com - Mozambique pre 1975 picture blog - Delagoa Bay World pictorial history of Angola from Postcards before 1975 pictures of Angola Cathedrals before 1975 pictures of Angola Airports before 1975 Back to top