Inanda Seminary School 2.95

Inanda Seminary School is one of the oldest schools for girls in South Africa. It was founded in 1853 at Inanda, a settlement just over north of Durban, by Daniel and Lucy Lindley, an American missionary couple.HistoryOn 20 November 1834 Daniel and Lucy Virginia Lindley married and they were sent by the American Board of Missions to South Africa. When they arrived in Cape Town they still had to cover. Their journey took a year by ox cart to get to Matabeleland. However, their plans were thwarted by the fighting that was taking place between the descendants of Dutch colonists and the Matebele. They successfully ministered to the Boers but they did not find success with native Africans until they set up the mission at Inanda.In 1869 they realised that the Adams School was successfully creating educated African men but they had no prospect of finding an educated "good wife". They said "who are they going to marry? – these naked girls". The couple thought this was a problem and decided to found a school for nineteen young girls who would board at Inanda. The cost of this was borne by the American Missionary Board. The headteacher, Mary Kelly Edwards, was brought from Ohio and she was to serve the school for nearly sixty years.