St. Ignatius College, Zimbabwe

St. Ignatius College is a private Catholic secondary boarding school, located at Chishawasha, near Harare, in the Mashonaland East Province of Zimbabwe.

The College's sister school is nearby St Dominic's Chishawasha which meets frequently for social and co-curricula events.

In its 59 years of inception it has garnered a name as the hub of profound education maintaining a hold within the top ten list of the national examinations.

(resm 2020) St. Ignatius College was founded by the Jesuit Fathers after they had seen the need to educate marginalised black students.

According to Sister Stephanie, IBVM, (a founding member of Mary Ward House) the black community faced a number of challenges due to the draconian policies of the colonial racist regime.

He retired from Ignatius in 1991 but continued teaching physics at St. Alberts in Mount Darwin, Zimbabwe, and St. Boniface in Magunje.