St. Paul's Musami High School is a private Catholic secondary school, located in Murewa District, Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe. The co-educational school is operated by the Society of Jesus and provides education through to A-levels.
St. Paul's ranked 24th among the top 100 A-level schools in Zimbabwe in 2014 with all but one of 61 of its students who took the exam passing.[1]
History
1977 mission massacre
During the Rhodesian Bush War, the school and associated Musami mission was the site of massacre of clergy on February 6, 1977. Three members of the British Province of the Society of Jesus and four members of the Dominican sisters were shot and killed. The killers were not identified.[2] The unknown black guerrillas separated the white clergyman and teachers from the rest of the mission to a dirt road and opened fire with automatic weapons. Only Rev. Dunstan Myerscough survived because he had instinctively dropped to the ground right after the guerrillas opened fire. The deceased were British, West German, Irish and Kenyan citizens. At the time of the massacre, the mission had 400 black students and a 100-bed hospital.[3]
See also
References
- ^ "My Zimbabwe News Blog". My Zimbabwe News. n.d. Retrieved 2016-12-24.
- ^ Rogers SJ, Ted (4 February 2015). "Who were the Musami martyrs". Memoirs. Dorpspruit, South Africa: Cluster Publications. Retrieved 28 June 2021 – via Pathways to God (Jesuits in Britain: Society of Jesus Trust for Roman Catholic Purpose).
- ^ Burns, John F. (8 February 1977). "7 White Missionaries in Rhodesia Slain in Raid by Black Guerrillas". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 September 2021.