Ezenzeleni Blind Institute

Ezenzeli Blind Institute was a school for the blind in Roodepoort, near Johannesburg in South Africa. It was founded in 1939 by Arthur Blaxall, a British-born Anglican pastor who with his wife worked in South Africa since 1923.[1]

Among the institute's teachers was Es'kia Mphahlele, who worked there in the 1940s. Desmond Tutu's mother Aletha worked there is a cook in the same period; it was there that Tutu met Trevor Huddleston.[2]

References
  1. "Arthur William Blaxall". South African History Online. Retrieved 2014-09-01.
  2. Gish, Steven D. (2004). Desmond Tutu: A Biography. Westport, Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press. p. 5. ISBN 0-313-32860-9.

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