In 1985 Ottilie Abrahams founded the Jacob Marengo Tutorial College, a school for liberation run on the principles of Paolo Freire, which she continued to manage as principal until two weeks before her death at age 80.  Named after the leader of a Nama and Herero alliance against German colonists between 1904-1908, this school was founded in opposition to Bantu Education in Namibia.  Aunt Tilly recalled: “When we started Jacob Marengo, a quarter of our students were from South Africa where schools were burned down–highly politicized children; and the other group came from northern Namibia, where the secondary schools had to operate under the watchful eyes of the occupying forces. So we saw our job as preparing children for an independent state, for the development of the country.”  To actualize the school’s motto: ‘Education for Liberation’ they decided not to have a system of students representative councils. Instead, they had a system of self management groups called Turmas, where every child in the school has a specific task to perform.  From 25 students in 1985, by 2016 the school last year had over 1000 children with about half the students come from Angola, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.