The Student Leadership group for 2013 was announced during assembly. After weeks of leadership training camps, the Student Leaders were carefully selected by Richard Brown (WBHS Student Leader Manager). We wish our Leaders or 2013 a successful year as they serve the...
The Mayor of the Durban Youth Council, WBHS Grade 11 pupil Siyabonga Sangweni, may be about to hand over his role at the end of his term of office in four weeks but that does not mean he is truly stepping down. After a recent gathering of several Southern African...
The Solitaire Swain Bell rang 224 times on Tuesday, 16 October sounding the end of high school for the Matrics of Westville Boys’ High School. Guest of Honour at this year’s Speech Night and Prizegiving was Dr Rory Callaghan, a Westville old boy who matriculated in...
There is no doubt that the highlight of the term was Chad le Clos’ Olympic Gold Medal which captured the imagination of the School community and indeed the whole of the country. The School gates at the top of Wandsbeck Road were painted gold to mark the historic...
Westville Old Boy of 1986, Adrian Saville has been nominated for the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Business Professor Award. There are 206 nominees from some of the world’s largest and best known business schools and Adrian is the only nominee from Africa. His...
Grade 12 pupil, Aphiwe Meyiwa was another WBHS boy to attend the Global Young Leaders Conference, this time at the conference in Washington and New York. The purpose of the Global Young Leaders Conference (GYLC) is to distinguish a select group of exceptional high...
On Wednesday 15 August, the excitement in the air was tangible as a crowd of 1 500 people comprising pupils, teachers and coaches waited for the much anticipated return of their hero, Chad le Clos, together with his father, Bert, and his coach and fellow Westville Old...
Two of the more serious challenges facing South Africa are: education and equality. As students we cannot change the minds of the whole nation but we believe that we can start a ripple effect towards change. We decided to go about this by utilising the skills we...
The Remedial Unit at WBHS is run by Mrs Jenny Krouwel, who has an Honours degree in Special Needs Education. She runs an afternoon programme from Monday to Thursday, for boys experiencing difficulty with Maths (Grades 8 and 9), and English (all Grades). Boys do not...
This year three WBHS Grade 11 students attended the 2012 Global Young Leaders Conference in Europe: Shivaan Salligram, Ethan Hitchcock and Kalin Naidu. The conference took place over two weeks and involved over 200 students from numerous countries worldwide. The...
