St Anne'S Diocesan College (Hilton)

Okay so St Anne's Diocesan College in Hilton, founded in 1877, which means this school has been taking money from people longer than electricity has existed in South Africa. And speaking of taking money, R176,115 a year for Grade 12. One year. For one child. In Hilton. Your parents could have bought a decent bakkie, a timeshare in Ballito, AND paid for Matric rage, and they still chose to send you up that hill to wear a blazer and learn deportment with Anglican girls who say "one" instead of "I." "World-class facilities in a safe country environment" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting in that description. Safe country environment is what you say when you want to make Hilton sound like the Cotswolds and not just Pietermaritzburg but with more horses and less load shedding. And "leading independent girls' high school" said by every girls' school ever, without fail, every single one, leading somewhere, just not saying where. Girls only, Anglican, boarding school, founded before the Anglo-Boer War, in a village called Hilton, where the most exciting thing is probably the Woolworths in Cascades on a Saturday. These girls are locked in, prayed over, and charged six figures for the privilege. That is not a school, that is a very expensive finishing programme with hockey fields. Overall verdict: St Anne's is genuinely one of the most prestigious girls' schools in the country, but at R176k a year, your matric certificate better come laminated in gold and personally signed by the Archbishop of Canterbury.