Rondebosch Boys High School (City Of Cape Town)

Rondebosch Boys High. The school where 903 boys wake up every morning, put on their blazers, and collectively decide that girls are a distraction from rugby and God. Christian ethos, boys only, Southern Suburbs, the whole package. You can almost smell the entitlement and Axe body spray from the N2. Now let us talk about these fees because R74,864 for Grade 12 is not school fees, that is a mortgage payment in Strand. You are paying nearly seventy-five thousand rand for your child to learn Latin, lose a rugby match to SACS, and develop a personality that only works at braais in Constantia. With 60 educators for 903 boys you are getting a 15 to 1 ratio, which sounds fine until you realise those 903 boys are all trying to be the alpha male in every single class and that poor teacher is basically a rugby referee who also knows calculus. And the Christian ethos. Brother. You have 903 teenage boys locked in a building together all day with no girls, full of testosterone, and your plan is just, Jesus? Just Jesus and sport? Okay. We trust the process. We do. The school has been doing this since forever and somehow the Southern Suburbs keeps producing these Rondebosch guys who grow up, marry a Herschel girl, and buy a house in Kenilworth. It is the circle of life, Western Cape edition. Overall verdict: Expensive, exclusive, slightly pious, and absolutely convinced it is the best school in Cape Town, but honestly, it kind of is, and that is the most annoying part.