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Tutu desmond8/28/2023 In 1954, Tutu began teaching English at Madibane High School the following year, he transferred to the Krugersdorp High School, where he taught English and history.During one debating event he met the lawyer-and future president of South Africa- Nelson Mandela they would not encounter each other again until 1990. There, he served as treasurer of the Student Representative Council, helped to organise the Literacy and Dramatic Society, and chaired the Cultural and Debating Society. Instead, he gained a government scholarship for a course at Pretoria Bantu Normal College, a teacher training institution, in 1951. Tutu was admitted to study medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand, but his parents could not afford the tuition fees. He returned to school in 1949 and took his national exams in late 1950, gaining a second-class pass. In 1947, Tutu contracted tuberculosis and was hospitalised in Rietfontein for 18 months, during which he was regularly visited by Huddleston. He became a server at the Church of Christ the King in Sophiatown and came under the influence of its priest, Trevor Huddleston. Outside of school, he earned money selling oranges and as a caddie for white golfers. Joining a school rugby team, he developed a lifelong love of the sport. Tutu entered the Johannesburg Bantu High School in 1945, where he excelled academically. He developed a love of reading, particularly enjoying comic books and European fairy tales. There, Tutu started his primary education, learned Afrikaans, and became the server at St Francis Anglican Church. In 1936, the family moved to Tshing, where Zachariah became principal of a Methodist school. The Church of Christ the King in Sophiatown, where Tutu was a server under priest Trevor Huddlestone
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