Boys' College Matric Results 2022

We are delighted to announce that our 2022 Matrics have done very well in the IEB’s matriculation examinations. The Independent Examinations Board (IEB) offers a rigorous assessment of the National Senior Certificate curriculum, preparing our students well for tertiary study. We will be highlighting the achievements of our top performers below. We wish to stress our pride in each matriculant who has done his best. We thank our teachers, parents, and community for pulling together with our students to enable them to achieve excellence and make a world of difference.

Our philosophy of learning and teaching promotes an academic culture which seeks to meet and extend the needs and styles of each student, enabling personalised and meaningful learning to take place. We pride ourselves on this approach, which seeks to optimise individual learning across the academic spectrum and includes enrolling a number of students with identified barriers to learning. We are proud of the top academic achievers, among the best in the country and whose results are documented individually, as well as of each student who has excelled against personal benchmarks.

Matric is the destination of a long journey of learning. We acknowledge the contributions of the teachers at the Preparatory Schools of St Stithians College, as well as those of other Primary Schools which educated this year’s Matric cohort. We pay tribute to the impact of Kamoka Bush School on the lives of our students on their Saints journey.

At this time of focus on the academic gateway of Matric, we affirm our commitment to the education of young people of character, who make an impact as leaders and citizens, shaped by a Methodist ethos. Academic learning is complemented with a diverse and highly successful sporting, cultural, outdoor education and community engagement curriculum.
 

Summary of the Boys' College 2022 Matric results: 

• 140 Candidates
• 100% pass rate 
• 139 Bachelor’s Degree pass 
• 3 candidates qualify for the St Stithians Academic Honours Summa Cum Laude (an average of 90% or above)
• 2 students were placed on the IEB list for Outstanding Achievement (i.e. top 5% of all IEB candidates in 6 or more subjects and 80% or more for Life Orientation)
• 12 candidates achieved 18 marks within the top 1% of all IEB candidates in a specific subject, across 9 subjects
• There were 252 distinctions from 140 candidates
• 95 of all candidates achieved at least one distinction  
• 74 students in your class achieved an average of 70% or higher

 

Message from the Head of School

To the Boys’ College Matric Class of 2022 - A Message from Mr David du Toit about the Matric Results

Dear Matrics

At your B2K celebration Mr Khuluse sang your praises as follows:

Halala Matikuletsheni, kilasi lika 2022:  HALALA!  (Congratulations matrics, class of 2022)       

Niwele imifula nemifudlana: HALALA!  (You’ve crossed rivers and streams congratulations!)          

Nihlangabezane nezingqinamba naqina naziqonela: HALALA! (You climbed the hills and the hillocks congratulations!)          

Naqonsa amagquma namagqumakazi: HALALA!  (You’ve come across challenges, but you were strong enough to overcome them congratulations!)                                                                    

Nagqugquzela usapho olulandelayo lwagquqguzeleka: HALALA! (You inspired the young ones successfully congratulations!)

I would like to add my congratulations to these words of celebration. You have inspired and left a significant legacy at the Boys’ College. I wish to congratulate you on your collective results for your Matric Finals. You have risen superbly to the challenges of the last few years and have shone brightly, leading with Passion and Purpose and now, at the final hurdle, you have collectively achieved your best academic results as a grade that you have ever done, by quite some margin. I am so very proud of you.

Today we celebrate your results. What stands out for me is that each student has had their own unique success – for some it is 7 distinctions, for some a BD pass and for some the chance to move into tertiary study. Your hard work and commitment is to be acknowledged and we congratulate you. What comes next is now up to you, and we wish you every success and much joy and fulfilment as you go out to make your positive impact on the world. As James Lowman said at your final assembly: “ ….. although we are at an end in our Saints journey, this event is in fact a beginning. It is the beginning of a future determined by the very people I see sitting in front of me today, my brothers. For now that we are knighted, we have the armour, sword and shield to take on the world.’

I do also wish to remind you that there is much gratitude owed by you to those who have supported and encouraged you through your school journey and your Matric year in particular. Please do take time to acknowledge those people. At B2K James shared a quote by Chuck Palahniuk who said: “Nothing of me is original, I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known”. I extend my thanks to all who have nurtured, listened, advised and pushed you along the way, in particular our Boys’ College staff to whom I am very thankful to for their commitment to your growth. And please do not forget those teachers from our Junior Prep and Boys’ Prep as well as all of those teachers in other feeder prep schools who played such important roles in setting you up for your success. On your behalf, I also thank the Independent Examination Board, who dealt with queries and issues timeously and efficiently, and ran an examination system of the highest standard.

I would like to celebrate the success of your sisters at the Girls’ College who have achieved outstanding results. I have enjoyed the way in which you have strengthened bonds with them and have accelerated the strength and opportunity that the relationship with the Girls’ College presents.

As the Boys’ College community, we continue to hold up Samantha Kirk in prayer as a beloved member of the Girls’ College Class of 2022 who is unable to celebrate together with you as a class today. We pray for Samantha and her family as we lift her up to the Lord asking for his shining light on her life and her family.

As I bid you the very best for your future I trust that you will remember the lessons and values you have learnt at St Stithians College, and that these will stand you in good stead in the challenging, uncertain but exciting times we face. Continue to Honour God, Honour Others and Honour Self and to live out John Wesley’s invitation to ‘Do all the good you can …, as long as ever you can.’ Much is expected of you.

I look forward to hearing of your success in life, and until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand.

‘And now these three remain faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.’ (1 Corinthians 13)

Warm regards

Mr David du Toit
Head of School: Boys' College

St Stithians Academic Honours Summa Cum Laude (average of 90% or above):

 

National IEB Achievements:

The following students were placed on the IEB’s list for Outstanding Achievement 
(i.e. achieved within the top 5% of learners in 6 or more subjects and a rating of level 7 in Life Orientation):

• Armand Carstens 
• Roald Carstens 

12 candidates achieved 18 marks within the top 1% of all IEB candidates in a specific subject, across 9 subjects. These are as follows:

• Roald Carstens (Afrikaans First Additional Language, Life Sciences, Mathematics)
• Aidan Zeeman (Accounting, Mathematics, Physical Sciences)
• Nicholas Homann (Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Further Studies Mathematics Extended (Statistics)
• Armand Carstens (Visual Arts)
• Milani Dingaan (History)
• Ato Kaimpa (Dramatic Arts)
• James Lowman (History)
• Khulani Mabaso (Dramatic Arts)
• Simba Manikai (Dramatic Arts)
• Matthew Nyschens (Dramatic Arts)
• Luke Van Coller (History)
• Matthew Vos (History)

Distinction candidates (in order of number of distinctions achieved):

8 Distinctions (subjects at Level 7):  3 boys

7 Distinctions (subjects at Level 7): 2 boys

6 Distinctions (subjects at Level 7):  4 boys

5 Distinctions (subjects at Level 7): 8 boys

4 Distinctions (subjects at Level 7):  10 boys

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3 Distinctions (subjects at level 7):11 boys 

Joshua Bunch, Thomas Campbell, James Hitchings, Darmiken Naidu, Matthew Plant, Adam Shtein, Vuyo Sibanda, David Thornton, Bryce Zeeman, Michael Zietsman.

2 Distinctions (subjects at level 7): 19 boys 

Nicholas Bell, Connor Cameron, Nicholas Dobson, Themba Hadebe, Thami Hlongwa, Cameron Huson, Ato Kaimpa, Daniel Kruger, Mnqobi Kumalo, Amukelani Leeuw, Rhys Lomax, Lwazi Mabena, Tyuran Naidu, Matthew Nyschens, Aidan Roodt, Divij Seedat, Oliver Thorns, Aidan Urquhart, Travis Vermaerke. 

1 Distinction (subjects at level 7): 38 boys

Daelan Crighton, Masedi Dilotsotlhe, Tiego Diphokwana, Oliver du Toit, Aaron Friedlein, Karabo Gadd, Rohan Gowan, Declan Green, Brandon Ibeneme, Savar Komal, Khethokuhle Kunene, Panashe Kurehwa, Keegan Le Roux, Kai Leibowitz, Makgesa Lekgwathi, Taro Lue, Khulani Mabaso, Simba Manikai, Tiyo Mbadamana, Nhlanganiso Mdima, Lwandiluthando Mthiyane, Bongani Mwebeiha, Jonathan Nash, Joshua Parkin, Simphiwe Shange, Ngoni Simelane, Gregory Smith, Fabio Spazzoli, Liam Surendra, Nicholas Ternent, Candidate X*, Candidate X*, Candidate X*, Candidate X*, Candidate X*, Candidate X*, Candidate X*, Candidate X*.

 

We wish all our matriculants a fulfilling first year out of school, wherever they find themselves, and we encourage them – One and All – to stay connected with St Stithians as they venture forth into this new stage of their lives.                                                                     

 

Mr David du Toit Head of School St Stithians Boys’ College

Mrs Celeste Gilardi Rector  St Stithians College

 

Candidate*: The candidate has formally indicated that they do not want personal information publicised.