Hilton College
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Hilton College is a private
Private school
Private schools, also known as independent schools or nonstate schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students' tuition, rather than relying on mandatory...

 full boarding
Boarding school
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 senior school for boys located near the small town of Hilton
Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal
Hilton is a small town that lies on the brow of the escarpment above Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. In 1872 the Reverend WO Newnham opened Hilton College here, one of South Africa's leading private schools....

 in the KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....

 Midlands
KwaZulu-Natal Midlands
The KwaZulu-Natal Midlands is an inland area of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa that lies outside of Pietermaritzburg but before the Drakensberg mountain range....

 of South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

.

History

It was founded in 1872 by Gould Arthur Lucas and William Orde Newnham, an Anglican priest, when Natal was a British colony, as a non-denominational Christian
Christian
A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...

 school for boys. It is located on a 17 square kilometre estate.

The original school buildings were red brick but with development this changed to the present Cape Dutch
Cape Dutch architecture
-Introduction:Cape Dutch architecture is an architectural style found in the Western Cape of South Africa. The style was prominent in the early days of the Cape Colony, and the name derives from the fact that the initial settlers of the Cape were primarily Dutch...

 style.

Hilton has established a friendly rivalry with other schools in the province including: Maritzburg College
Maritzburg College
Maritzburg College, known locally as College, is a public school for boys situated in the city of Pietermaritzburg, in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa....

, Michaelhouse
Michaelhouse
Michaelhouse is a full boarding senior school for boys founded in 1896. It is located in the Balgowan valley in the Midlands of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.- History :...

 and Kearsney College
Kearsney College
Kearsney College is a private boarding school for boys in Botha's Hill, a small town that lies between the provincial capital of Pietermaritzburg and Durban, the largest city of KwaZulu-Natal, a province in South Africa.- History :...

.

Hilton is a member of the unofficial Elite Seven.

Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing...

 was a guest speaker at the school's annual prizegiving and speech day in 2001.

Relationship with Michaelhouse

Besides being the two most expensive schools of their kind in South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

, Hilton College and Michaelhouse
Michaelhouse
Michaelhouse is a full boarding senior school for boys founded in 1896. It is located in the Balgowan valley in the Midlands of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.- History :...

 have much in common in that they are both boarding-only schools. The schools are located near one another in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands
KwaZulu-Natal Midlands
The KwaZulu-Natal Midlands is an inland area of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa that lies outside of Pietermaritzburg but before the Drakensberg mountain range....

.

A friendly rivalry on the sportsfield has developed since 1896, and the high point of this is the Hilton-Michaelhouse Day, which alternates each 'Hilton-Michaelhouse' (two per winter sporting season) between the two campuses and during which the schools play one another in hockey and rugby. The day culminates in a rugby match between the two 1st XVs.

Headmasters

  • William Orde Newnham (1872–1877)
  • Henry Vaughan Ellis (Old Rugbeian
    Rugby School
    Rugby School is a co-educational day and boarding school located in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire, England. It is one of the oldest independent schools in Britain.-History:...

    ) (1878–1904)
  • Weeks (1905-1906)
  • William Falcon (1906–1933)
  • T.W. Mansergh (1934–1947)
  • J.A. Pateman (1947–1953)
  • J.W. Hudson (1953–1957)
  • E.L. Harrison (1958–1967)
  • R.G. Slater (1967–1980)
  • R.H. Todd (1981–1983)
  • D.V. Ducasse (1984–1986)
  • P.W. Marsh (1987–1993)
  • Michael J. Nicholson (1994–2007)
  • David Lovatt (2008–2009)
  • Gavin Thomson (2009–present)

Academics

The years of study at Hilton are referred to as forms 1 to 5. Matric is the equivalent of grade 12 or form 5 and has boys aged 17 or 18 and "First form" is the equivalent of grade 8 or year 8 and has boys aged 13 or 14.

The pupil-teacher ratio is 10:1.

Hilton College leavers write the Independent Examinations Board
Independent Examinations Board
thumb|Independent Examinations BoardThe Independent Examinations Board or IEB South African independent assessment agency which offers examinations for various client schools. It is most prominent in setting the examinations for the school-leaving National Senior Certificate, or NSC, which...

 exams.
IEB Results 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Number of candidates 112 86 98 116 100 97 103 101 111 95 112 116 112
Number of failures 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
University endorsement (%) 88.4 92 86 91.4 94 88 94.2 94.1 96.4 94 92 96.6 98.2
A aggregates (%) 18.2 10.1 18 17 22.3 36 34 28.4 27.1 30 27 26.8 34.82
A-B-C aggregates (%) 67.2 71.2 70 71.3 65 65 71 64 90
Subject distinctions 113 48 112 79 88 141 167 128 140 142 174 168 178
Number in top 50* 1 2 3 1 1 0 4 1 1


Hilton also produced 15 Rhodes scholars for study at the University of Oxford
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...

 and two Elsie Ballot scholars for study at the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...

.

Spiritual

Hilton is a non-denominational Christian college, and Christian worship, values and principles are the foundation of College life. Pupils attend chapel service twice a week, including Sundays. About 40% of the school pupils come from Anglican backgrounds; 15% from Roman Catholic; 13% from Methodist; the other denominations are less than 10% each. The school chaplain is Rev. Richard Wyngaard.

The Old Hiltonian Club

Old boys of Hilton College are called old Hiltonians and they meet regularly at venues throughout South Africa, Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States (the largest gathering at the Harvard Club in New York.)

Notable Old Hiltonians

  • Keagan Africa, Dolphins
    Dolphins cricket team
    The Sunfoil Dolphins is the name used by the KwaZulu Natal cricket team when it plays in the South African SuperSport Series first class competition; also in the MTN Domestic Championship and Standard Bank Twenty20 limited over competitions...

     cricketer
    Cricketer
    A cricketer is a person who plays the sport of cricket. Official and long-established cricket publications prefer the traditional word "cricketer" over the rarely used term "cricket player"....

     
  • Lionel "Rusty" Bernstein
    Lionel Bernstein
    Lionel "Rusty" Bernstein was a South African anti-apartheid activist and political prisoner.-Early life:Bernstein was born in Durban, the youngest of four children of Jewish émigrés from Europe. He was orphaned at eight years old, and brought up by relatives, after which he was sent to finish his...

    , anti-apartheid activist and political prisoner
  • Duncan Bradshaw
    Duncan Bradshaw
    Duncan Phillip Bradshaw is a Zimbabwean born English cricketer. Bradshaw is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm fast-medium...

    , first-class
    First-class cricket
    First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

     cricketer
    Cricketer
    A cricketer is a person who plays the sport of cricket. Official and long-established cricket publications prefer the traditional word "cricketer" over the rarely used term "cricket player"....

  • Michael Bush, better known as nudist, Beau Brummel, founder of South Africa's first nudist colony
  • Bruce Campbell, CEO of Mutual & Federal
  • Derek Crookes
    Derek Crookes
    Derek Norman Crookes in Mariannhill, Natal is a former South African cricketer and played 32 One Day Internationals for South Africa from 1994 to 2000. In domestic cricket he played for Natal, Gauteng, Easterns and the Highveld Lions....

    , former Dolphins
    Dolphins cricket team
    The Sunfoil Dolphins is the name used by the KwaZulu Natal cricket team when it plays in the South African SuperSport Series first class competition; also in the MTN Domestic Championship and Standard Bank Twenty20 limited over competitions...

     and South African cricketer
    Cricketer
    A cricketer is a person who plays the sport of cricket. Official and long-established cricket publications prefer the traditional word "cricketer" over the rarely used term "cricket player"....

  • John Didcott
    John Didcott
    John Mowbray Didcott was a South African judge who was a Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from the court's opening on 14 February 1995 until his death.-References:...

     (1948), Constitutional Court
    Constitutional Court of South Africa
    The Constitutional Court of South Africa was established in 1994 by South Africa's first democratic constitution: the Interim Constitution of 1993. In terms of the 1996 Constitution the Constitutional Court established in 1994 continues to hold office. The court began its first sessions in February...

     judge 1995-1998
  • Tim Harris
    Tim Harris (politician)
    Tim Harris is a South African politician, currently a Democratic Alliance member of Parliament's National Assembly, where he serves as the Shadow Minister of Trade and Industry...

    , South African parliamentarian
    Parliament of South Africa
    The Parliament of South Africa is South Africa's legislature and under the country's current Constitution is composed of the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces....

  • Paul Maritz
    Paul Maritz
    Paul Maritz is CEO of VMware Corporation , and a past senior executive at Microsoft.Born and raised in Rhodesia , his family later moved to South Africa where he was schooled at Highbury Preparatory School and Hilton College. He received a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Natal,...

     a senior executive at Microsoft from 1986 to 2000
  • Sir RH John Don-Wauchope, Bt.
  • Wayne Fyvie, former Springbok rugby
    Rugby union
    Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

     footballer
  • Peter Hassard, president of the Sharks rugby
    Rugby union
    Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

     franchise
  • David Hathorn
    David Hathorn
    David Hathorn is a South African businessman and chief executive of Mondi Europe, finance director of Mondi International and the Anglo Forest Products Division and director of Anglo American....

    , businessman and director of Anglo American
    Anglo American (mining)
    Anglo American plc is a global mining company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is a major producer of diamonds, copper, nickel, iron ore and metallurgical and thermal coal and the world's largest producer of platinum, with around 40% of world output...

     and De Beers
    De Beers
    De Beers is a family of companies that dominate the diamond, diamond mining, diamond trading and industrial diamond manufacturing sectors. De Beers is active in every category of industrial diamond mining: open-pit, underground, large-scale alluvial, coastal and deep sea...

  • Sven Koenig, first-class
    First-class cricket
    First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

     cricketer
    Cricketer
    A cricketer is a person who plays the sport of cricket. Official and long-established cricket publications prefer the traditional word "cricketer" over the rarely used term "cricket player"....

  • Hentie Martens, former Springbok rugby
    Rugby union
    Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

     footballer
  • Roy McLean
    Roy McLean
    Roy Alastair McLean was a South African cricketer who played in forty Tests from 1951 to 1964. A stroke-playing middle-order batsman, he scored over 2,000 Test runs, but made 11 ducks in 73 Test innings....

    , South African cricketer
    Cricketer
    A cricketer is a person who plays the sport of cricket. Official and long-established cricket publications prefer the traditional word "cricketer" over the rarely used term "cricket player"....

     1951-1965
  • Mike Melvill
    Mike Melvill
    Michael Winston "Mike" Melvill is one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites. Melvill piloted SpaceShipOne on its first flight past the edge of space, flight 15P on June 21, 2004, thus becoming the first commercial astronaut and the 434th...

    , first commercial astronaut and the 433rd person to go into space
  • Kgosi Leruo Molotlegi, King of the Bafokeng Nation
  • Michael Pfaff, recently Chief Executive of Rand Merchant Bank
  • Mike Procter
    Mike Procter
    Michael John Procter is a former South African cricketer. A fast bowler and hard hitting batsman, his chances for a long and productive test career were wrecked by South Africa's banishment from world cricket in the 1970s and 1980s...

    , former South African cricketer
    Cricketer
    A cricketer is a person who plays the sport of cricket. Official and long-established cricket publications prefer the traditional word "cricketer" over the rarely used term "cricket player"....

     and coach
  • Bobby Skinstad
    Bobby Skinstad
    Robert Brian Skinstad is a Zimbabwean-born South African rugby union player who has represented the national team, the Springboks, 42 times, scoring 55 points . He played in the positions of flanker and number eight...

    , former Springbok rugby union
    Rugby union
    Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

     captain
  • Russel Symcox, Dolphins
    Dolphins cricket team
    The Sunfoil Dolphins is the name used by the KwaZulu Natal cricket team when it plays in the South African SuperSport Series first class competition; also in the MTN Domestic Championship and Standard Bank Twenty20 limited over competitions...

     cricketer
    Cricketer
    A cricketer is a person who plays the sport of cricket. Official and long-established cricket publications prefer the traditional word "cricketer" over the rarely used term "cricket player"....

  • Gary Teichmann
    Gary Teichmann
    Gary Hamilton Teichmann is a retired Rhodesian/Zimbabwean-born South African rugby union player. He played number eight and was the captain of the South African national team, the Springboks, between 1995 and 1999...

    , former Springbok rugby
    Rugby union
    Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

     captain
  • John Waite, South African cricketer
    Cricketer
    A cricketer is a person who plays the sport of cricket. Official and long-established cricket publications prefer the traditional word "cricketer" over the rarely used term "cricket player"....

     1951-1965
  • Keith Wakefield, property tycoon
  • Sandile Zungu, Executive Chairman of Zico Investments
  • Bruce Hemphill, currently Chief Executive of the Liberty Group
  • Stephen Coppinger, Top South African Squash Player (SA National champion '07,'08 and'10)
  • Roddy Grant
    Roddy Grant (rugby union)
    Roderick 'Roddy' Robert Grant is a rugby union player with Edinburgh and Scotland sevens. During the 2008–09 IRB Sevens World Series, Grant took over as captain from the injured Scott Forrest and went on to captain Edinburgh at the start of the 2010–2011 Magners League campaign.-Early life:Grant...

    , Current scotland 7's rugby player
  • Preston Mommsen
    Preston Mommsen
    Preston Luke Mommsen is a South African born Scottish cricketer. Having represented South Africa at under 19 level he played his first game for Scotland in a first class match against the Netherlands on 10 June 2010.-Education:...

    , Current Scotland cricket player
  • Ricardo Makhado, hip-hop artist, singer

Hilton today

Hilton is the most expensive boarding school in South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

 with relatively high fees of approximately R
South African rand
The rand is the currency of South Africa. It takes its name from the Witwatersrand , the ridge upon which Johannesburg is built and where most of South Africa's gold deposits were found. The rand has the symbol "R" and is subdivided into 100 cents, symbol "c"...

173,000 in 2011.

The headmaster between 1994 and 2007 was Mike Nicholson, an Old Hiltonian who taught at Kearsney College
Kearsney College
Kearsney College is a private boarding school for boys in Botha's Hill, a small town that lies between the provincial capital of Pietermaritzburg and Durban, the largest city of KwaZulu-Natal, a province in South Africa.- History :...

 before joining the teaching staff at Hilton in 1977. Dave Lovatt became the new headmaster in 2008 and was succeeded by Gavin Thompson in 2009.

Various performers and audiences gather every year for the Hilton Arts Festival held at the Hilton College Theatre - the second largest theatre in the province.

It has a student exchange programme with Eton College
Eton College
Eton College, often referred to simply as Eton, is a British independent school for boys aged 13 to 18. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as "The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor"....

, Harrow School
Harrow School
Harrow School, commonly known simply as "Harrow", is an English independent school for boys situated in the town of Harrow, in north-west London.. The school is of worldwide renown. There is some evidence that there has been a school on the site since 1243 but the Harrow School we know today was...

, Wrekin College
Wrekin College
Wrekin College is a co-educational independent school located in Wellington, Shropshire, England. It was founded by Sir John Bayley in 1880 and was known as ‘The School in the Garden’ owing to its extensive gardens and playing fields...

, The King's School, Canterbury
The King's School, Canterbury
The King's School is a British co-educational independent school for both day and boarding pupils in the historic English cathedral city of Canterbury in Kent. It is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and the Eton Group....

 in England
England
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, Gordonstoun
Gordonstoun
Gordonstoun School is a co-educational independent school for boarding and day pupils in Moray in North East Scotland. Named after the estate originally owned by Sir Robert Gordon in the 1600s, the school now uses this estate as its campus...

 in Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

, Schule Schloss Salem
Schule Schloss Salem
Schule Schloss Salem is a boarding school with campuses in Hohenfels, Salem and Überlingen in Baden-Württemberg, Southern Germany. It is considered one of the most elite schools in Europe.It offers the German Abitur, as well as the International Baccalaureate...

 in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, The Scots College
The Scots College
For other schools with a similar name see Scots College.The Scots College is an independent Presbyterian day and boarding school for boys, located in Bellevue Hill, an eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

 in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, and Charlotte Latin School in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America.

Development

Hilton College has an endowment of approximately R
South African rand
The rand is the currency of South Africa. It takes its name from the Witwatersrand , the ridge upon which Johannesburg is built and where most of South Africa's gold deposits were found. The rand has the symbol "R" and is subdivided into 100 cents, symbol "c"...

37 million. A new Pearce boarding house, was built in 2006 after a R
South African rand
The rand is the currency of South Africa. It takes its name from the Witwatersrand , the ridge upon which Johannesburg is built and where most of South Africa's gold deposits were found. The rand has the symbol "R" and is subdivided into 100 cents, symbol "c"...

12 million donation.

Feeder schools

  • Highbury Preparatory School
    Highbury Preparatory School
    Highbury Preparatory School is a private school for boys located in Hillcrest, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.-History:Highbury was founded in 1903 by Sibella Douglas McMillan. It was named after Highbury House School in England, which was established by Sibella McMillan's father, the Rev Charles...

    , KwaZulu-Natal
    KwaZulu-Natal
    KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....

  • Clifton Preparatory School, Nottingham Road
    Clifton Preparatory School, Nottingham Road
    Clifton Preparatory School, Nottingham Road is a private, co-educational boarding school located in the Nottingham Road area of the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands in South Africa.-History:...

    , KwaZulu-Natal
    KwaZulu-Natal
    KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....

  • Cowan House
    Cowan House
    Cowan House is a private co-educational boarding school situated in Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.- Origin :Cowan House was founded, as a private venture, in 1948 by David and Joy Black in Mountain Rise, Pietermaritzburg...

    , KwaZulu-Natal
    KwaZulu-Natal
    KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....

  • Cordwalles Preparatory School
    Cordwalles Preparatory School
    Cordwalles is a private, boarding preparatory school for boys founded in 1912. It is located in Pietermaritzburg, the capital city of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.-Origins:...

    , KwaZulu-Natal
    KwaZulu-Natal
    KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....

  • Clifton School
    Clifton School
    Clifton School is an independent school for boys located in Durban, Kwazulu-Natal, in the Republic of South Africa.-The early years:Mr Harry Stubbs, the retired first headmaster of Durban Prep, established Clifton Preparatory School on 5 February 1924. His home, at 102 Lambert Road, provided the...

    , KwaZulu-Natal
    KwaZulu-Natal
    KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....

  • The Ridge School
    The Ridge School
    The Ridge School is a private, university preparatory school for boys situated in Westcliff, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.-External links:*...

    , Gauteng
    Gauteng
    Gauteng is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. It was formed from part of the old Transvaal Province after South Africa's first all-race elections on 27 April 1994...

  • Pridwin Preparatory School, Gauteng
    Gauteng
    Gauteng is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. It was formed from part of the old Transvaal Province after South Africa's first all-race elections on 27 April 1994...

  • St. Peter's Preparatory School, Gauteng
    Gauteng
    Gauteng is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. It was formed from part of the old Transvaal Province after South Africa's first all-race elections on 27 April 1994...

  • Waterkloof House Preparatory School
    Waterkloof House Preparatory School
    Waterkloof House Preparatory School is an English speaking public school based in Pretoria, South Africa. Former pupils include Eddie Barlow, South African international cricket star, and Tony Peake. The school is generally known as WHPS, and its motto is "work hard play straight"....

    , Gauteng
    Gauteng
    Gauteng is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. It was formed from part of the old Transvaal Province after South Africa's first all-race elections on 27 April 1994...


Memberships

  • Independent Schools Association of Southern Africa
    Independent Schools Association of Southern Africa
    The Independent Schools Association of Southern Africa is the largest association of independent schools in Southern Africa.-History:...

  • Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference
    Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference
    The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference is an association of the headmasters or headmistressess of 243 leading day and boarding independent schools in the United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies and the Republic of Ireland...

  • International Boys' Schools Coalition

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