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3 unusual facts about Sonja Schlesin


Sonja Schlesin

Schlesin became a well respected but eccentric teacher of Latin at a high school in Krugersdorp for over 20 years with only two students having ever failed her course.

Schlesin died in Johannesburg in 1956 and her ashes were placed in a wall of remembrance at Braamfontein Cemetery in Johannesburg.

Schlesin enrolled at the University College of Johannesburg which she funded with a loan that Gandhi arranged.



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