Cultural Round Up

October 02, 2017 | Boys’ College

Congratulations to all our boys who received awards in the various areas in the Cultural Pillar.

Half Colours, Colours and Honours were awarded in Drama, Music and General Culture.

Drama

Colours

Grant Algeo
Michael Turnbull
Payemo Nyembe
Matthew Julies
Brett Kruger
Masimba Gangaidzo
Rashid Bhayat
Siyabonga Earlam
Reabetswe Botlholo
Nicholas Gaddin
Aedan Murray
Nicholas Godden
Kaden Arguile

Honours re-award

Siyabonga Zwane
Jock Kleynhans
Dylan Clare

Honours

Michael Hern
Nathan Olivier
James Leigh
Simangaliso Nawa
Sheldon Govender
Thabang Dhlamini

Music

Half Colours

Iviwe Matikinca

Colours

Seyuran Arran
Robert-Reece North
Tafara M’Kombe

Honours

Jimmy Qiu

General Culture

Half Colours

Reabetswe Botlholo
Benjamin Servant
Jarred Loggenberg

Colours

Kago Saul

Saints Singer and Musician of the Year Awards

Junior Musician of the Year: Sabelo Ntshingila

Junior Singer of the Year: Lesego Sithole

Senior Classical Musician of the Year: Jimmy Qiu

Senior Classical Singer of the Year: Adrian Schober

Senior Contemporary Musician of the Year: Luyanda Mazibuko

Senior Contemporary Singer of the Year: Lucretius Masanga

Scholarship Award for Most promising junior: Luke Brown

External Music Examinations

External Music Examinations took place earlier this year. The following boys were recognised for their achievements in music theory and practical exams.

Jason Brown
Joshua Casey
Teagan Green
Dylan Jack
Mihlali Jiya
Luyanda Mazibuko
Sabelo Ntshingila
Matthew Potter
Jimmy Qiu (2)
Jordan Schmidt
Dario Testaferrata
Erich van Beek
Joshua Veening

Jason Brown and Sabelo Ntshingila are furthermore congratulated on achieving distinctions for their music exams.

Public Speaking and Debating

This year we entered two teams into the WITS Model United Nations National competition. The following boys are commended for representing their school and their designated country well. This activity requires hours of research and the boys also attended various presentations at the South African Institute for International Affairs.

Representing Australia in the Committee on the reform of the UN Security Council was

Ethan Charles
James McPhail
Jarrod Loggenberg

Representing Sri Lanka on the Committee for Technology was.

Taine de Buys
Matt Davies
Benjamin Servant

James McPhail was awarded his Public Speaking certificate for being the chairman of the Grade 10 team.

This year the Debating team has grown in strength under the guidance of the current African champion. The Junior and senior teams competed in the Atheneum League. We are very proud of the Junior team who, amidst tough competition, broke into the Quarter finals.

Bradley Hultzer
Tyrone Kasi
Gregory Henkel
Nirav Gordheen
Ben Linde
Devon Brooks
Luke Reilly

Choir

Choir ties were awarded to boys who maintain an attendance mark of 80% or above in two consecutive terms. Congratulations to the following boys for their enthusiasm and commitment to the Choir: