Wynberg Girls' High School (City Of Cape Town)

Wynberg Girls' High School, Southern Suburbs, producing "confident and unique women who strive for excellence" since forever. R52,000 a year to be confident and unique, hey. That is basically paying Constantia prices to be told you are special. Your mom is refinancing the house so you can develop values. Eco-conscious values, at that. Very green. Very aware. Very R52k. Sixty educators for 963 girls. That is 16 learners per teacher, which sounds fine until you remember these are teenage girls in the Southern Suburbs and every single one of them has an opinion. That poor educator standing in front of a class of Wynberg girls trying to explain Shakespeare while sixteen confident and unique women are ready to debate every word. Load shedding hits and the whole school probably still finds a way to argue about it by candlelight. And boarding. They have boarding. So not only are you paying R52k for the day shift, some of you are living there. Full time. Wynberg Girls' twenty-four hours a day. You wake up, it is still Wynberg Girls'. You go to sleep, still Wynberg Girls'. The mountain is right there and you cannot escape. That is not a school, that is a lifestyle sentence. Overall verdict: Wynberg Girls' is genuinely one of the top public schools in the Western Cape and everyone knows it, but at R52k a year they could at least throw in a free tuck shop samoosa.