Falcon College

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Falcon College is a private institution of higher learning (high school) for boys aged 12-18 in the southern Matabeleland region of Zimbabwe. Founded in 1954 in Esigodini (formerly Essexvale, Southern Rhodesia), on the remains of the Bushtick Mine, Falcon College is considered one of the premier secondary schools in Africa.The College has graduated a large number of successful individuals around the world, including a British member of parliament, surgeons and doctors, leaders of industry and commerce, soldiers and educators.

The College has 40 km² of Matabeleland bush, 10 km² approximately is game fenced and houses Quiet Waters game park. The park contains examples of most of Zimbabwe’s plains game species, including zebra, giraffe, kudu, impala, tssessebe, bushbuck and warthog. The Campus itself is surrounded by an 18 strand electric fence (a reminder of the bush war of pre-1980) and is a small oasis of green in amongst the dry semi desert Matabeleland conditions. A functional air-strip is near-by.

Its motto is Sic itur ad astra and the school badge is a representation of a Lanner Falcon designed by the wife of a former Headmaster.