competitive spirit and loyalty to the owl of ERPM. ERPM/Boksburg Rugby Club ERPM rugby club was established in 1903 by the ERPM mine. The club adopted the badge of the mine as its logo. The prominent part of the badge is the owl and the club nickname became Hooters. The mining rugby clubs, ERPM, Rand Leases, Simmer and Jack, Diggers and Pirates formed the core of the Transvaal Rugby Football Union. After the demise of the mine the name was changed to the Boksburg Rugby Club. The club presently form part of the Falcons Rugby Union. Schools Hoërskool Voortrekker (29 January 1920) - the first Afrikaans medium high school on the Witwatersrand Boksburg High School (11 February 1920) - Boksburg High and Voortrekker shared premises in Nobby bar and Morris arcade before moving to their current premises Hoërskool Dr EG Jansen (2 August 1958) Christian Brothers' College (1935) St Dominic's Catholic School for Girls (31 July 1923) Sunward Park High School Hoërskool Oosterlig (1992) - formed out of Commercial High/Handelskool 1917, the first high school in South Africa specialising in commercial subjects Wit Deep Primary (1907) Laerskool Hennie Basson - later became Oosrand, joined with Laerskool JM Louw Laerskool Baanbreker Laerskool Concordia Laerskool Van Dyk Park Martin Primary School Parkrand Primary School Parkdene Primary School Freeway Park Primary School Laerskool Goudrand Wit Deep Primary School Windmill Park Secondary School Villa Lisa Secondary School (2012) Falcon Educational College Notable people Arts and entertainment Vanessa Do Céu Carreira - Miss South Africa 2001 Dawid Engela (30 October 1931 – 25 November 1967) - broadcaster, composer and musicologist Konrad Giering - figure skater John Ireland - multi-instrumentalist Molly Lamont - actress, The Awful Truth Jans Rautenbach (22 February 1936 – 2 November 2016) - screenwriter and Afrikaans film producer/director Angelique Rockas - actress/producer/activist, founder of Internationalist Theatre UK Jamie Uys (30 May 1921 – 29 January 1996) - Afrikaans and International Film producer/director Judges Judge Richard Goldstone Judge Mahomed Navsa Politicians Barend du Plessis - Minister of Finance Barbara Hogan - Minister of Public Enterprise, former Health Minister, anti-apartheid activist, St Dominic's Catholic School for Girls, Boksburg Chris Hani, leader of the South African Communist Party and chief of staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe Ian Neilson, Deputy Mayor of Cape Town JPI "Sakkie" Blanche - Mayor of Boksburg, MP, MEC Gauteng Academics Glenda Gray - HIV Researcher John McDowell - philosopher at University