Burger Nel
Be light to others Having walked the hard road, Buger Nel is big on building resilience through sport.
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Be light to others Having walked the hard road, Buger Nel is big on building resilience through sport.
Rise above the rest When Sipho Moniwa went to St Stithians College on a bursary at the start of Grade 8, it was with the loving support of a poor community
Knitting in love For the past 16 years, Mary South has made jerseys and beanies for the children in communities neighbouring Hilton College...
Birds of a feather It’s easier to find a Crowned Eagle’s egg on Hilton College’s estate than it is to find James Walters (1991, Falcon). Matt Fitzsimons (1991, Ellis) can attest to....
From the rough to the green “After you’ve played a round with somebody, you get a good sense of who they are and what they’re about...
Free to be me Caleb Venter has lived at Hilton College since he was two. Having grown up on campus, Caleb (now in grade 12)....
Paradigm-shifting perspectives The richness that Director of International Learning Alexei du Bois brings to Hilton College is immeasurably more than his Oxford PhD....
Choosing his own adventure Kigen Chepkonga has been in boarding since the age of 11. A more chipper, broad-minded and relational boy you could not hope to meet...
Keeping it real Playing dad to 90-odd teenage boys is not for everyone, but Hilton College Maths teacher and McKenzie housemaster Lionel Julius takes it in his stride...
Values to live by When he’s not at Hilton College, home for Wim Ebersöhn is a remote and rugged reserve in northern Mozambique, a 17-hour drive from the nearest town...
Soft heart, strong faith Akhona Kunene’s parents are hard-working people. His dad, Greg, is in construction, and his mom, Nonjabulo, is a nurse. Neither have permanent work...
Inspired to teach Thembile Zuma and Pamela Nel embody the values espoused by Hilton College. Hard working, perseverant and tenacious, both women joined Hilton College in administrative positions and worked their way into teaching posts…
The soldier “The Soldier.” That’s how June So will be remembered by the boys in his boarding house. For he is the boy who walked the 160-kilometre Grade 10 journey in a pair of sandals.…
Art that agitates Campbell Ivins’s art provokes a response. And not because it tackles hot-button topics like white privilege and toxic masculinity. His treatment of these sensitive subjects reveals more about the Grade 12 learner…
Grit and humour Harry Bailey is a poster boy for conservation at Hilton College. Earlier this year, he ran 100 kilometres over two days, raising R160 000 for rangers on the frontlines of the war…
True as steel Serene, steady, and true as steel. That’s Jabulani Kunene, who has worked as a lab technician in the science department at Hilton College since 1978. “It has been my only job, and…