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The post-matric trend this year is away from gap-year travel or work experience, and more matriculants are moving straight into furthering their academic studies at university...
Isaac Moritz was the boy most likely to do and be whatever he wanted until his fateful accident in the sea in Sea Point on Christmas...
As an 11-year-old girl sitting in bed, begging my doctors to let me go to school for one more day, I never would have imagined that...
Jaime Freeman made sure to find time in his latter years at King David High School Linksfield to enjoy his passion for wildlife photography. Freeman, who...
Having just witnessed the glowing matric results released last week, many thoughts filtered through my mind. In the cycle of each school year, there are always...
As the matric students of 2025 begin their final year of school, the SA Jewish Report asked them to tell us their expectations. Here are a...
Mandy Wu went from feeling like just another King David Linksfield (KDL) pupil to becoming head girl in matric last year, someone who was friendly to...
When Torah Academy matriculant Tali Snaid began high school, she wasn’t sure she would get through matric because of learning difficulties. But with sheer determination and...
Redhill School matriculant Ronan Meltzer achieved an International Baccalaureate (IB) result of 43 points out of 45, a massive achievement in the international community. These results...
For Darren Morris, the founder and chief executive of Lucky Hustle, a multimillion-dollar advertising agency with an international footprint, school was a struggle. His story is...
King David High School Linksfield matriculant Ariella Hirsch’s passion for the arts drove her to excel at school and inspire fellow students to express themselves creatively....
Many matric pupils can become totally consumed with their studies, but Yeshiva College Girls High School student Eliya Ossin dedicated much of the time to helping...
For Cape Town Torah High matriculant Kaylee Dirmeik, matric seemed like an impossible task. However not only did she complete it, she’s able to attend university....
King David Victory Park (KDVP) matriculant Liron Neuhaus was always underestimated because he was autistic and required a full-time facilitator. However, his matric year proved that...
King David Victory Park matriculant Daniella Reubenson truly embodies the notion of being an all-rounder, excelling in every aspect of her high school career: sports; Judaica;...
When King David Victory Park matriculant Gabriel Katzman was 12 years old, his life was forever changed by a cancer diagnosis. But six years later, although...
Binyamin Sandler made the most out of his volleyball talent, strong academic ability, and passion for the community in his matric year at Yeshiva College Boys...
As students embark on their high school journey, we envision them moving up in the grades in a seemingly straightforward path from Grade 8 to Grade...
Students writing their matric National Senior Certificate (NSC) mathematical literacy exam last week were shocked to see a question reading, “Timothy will fly from the United...
Matric dance season is supposed to be a time when students and their parents celebrate their school careers, but for some, it’s filled with dread. The...
When you chat to Joburg teenager Daniel Rock, 19, you would never guess that he has been to hell and back. A few times. He’s funny,...
Success in life isn’t dependent on how well you did in matric. In fact, for some, it has nothing whatsoever to do with it. South African...
In the second year of the era of COVID-19, when schooling was challenged to the hilt, our matriculants did the community and their schools proud. Here’s...
Matric results. Words that conjure up a plethora of emotions within the Jewish community – the students, their families, teachers, and many excited onlookers. It’s these...
One of the most deeply-felt reverberations of the pandemic has been on education. While students, teachers, and parents spent those long months of lockdown at home,...
Though some say an international qualification is needed to get ahead, others say you can follow your passion without a degree and still be hugely successful....
Lexi Davies, a kind, hardworking, friendly, popular student and the head of the Judaica committee at King David High School Linksfield, was about to write matric...
Yeshiva College’s head boy, Akiva Fox, and head girl, Kayla Sifris, gave student representatives of each Jewish school in South Africa an opportunity to express their...
Hirsch Lyons student Simcha Schneider struggled to maintain a work ethic throughout high school and encountered a few curveballs along the way, so he could have...
Matriculants have had to adapt to an ever-changing learning environment in a pandemic, and for many students, it hasn’t been easy. United Herzlia School graduate Dylan...
“Don’t let anyone tell you what you can and can’t do, because you’re the one that ultimately defines your success. Like I always say, ‘When you’re...
Rachel Hertz didn’t just focus on academics to get her average of 94% in matric at Redhill in 2021. She was an integral part of the...
Torah Academy Boys High School student, Eli Zlotnick, began matric in 2021 feeling as if he couldn’t take any more life blows. However, he managed to...
Leadership comes in many forms, but this group of four young leaders from King David High School Linksfield’s (KDHSL’s) 2021 matric class were pretty unique. Their...
When Ella Maughan stepped out of Herzlia High School’s gates at the end of matric in 2021, she had achieved something that few had ever done...
Matric is known to be a hard slog. You have one year to do your best and not a minute more. But can you imagine finishing...
It’s one thing to score in the highest possible percentile on international college entrance (SAT) exams and do advanced college-level AP maths and science courses. It’s...
The study of a play by William Shakespeare is a compulsory part of the English Grade 12 syllabus and one of two core works assessed in...
The class of 2021 is unlikely to attend university remotely this year like its 2020 peers, but it will have to be vaccinated to attend. It...
He was the King David High School Victory Park (KDHSVP) matric student most likely to become anything he set his sights on. In 2015, Jarred Wood...
