The DHS Herald 13 September 2019 Durban High School Issue 23/2019 Head Master : Mr A D Pinheiro DHS Hosting U14 Charl van Rooyen Cricket & DHS U16 Water Polo Durban High School is proud to be St Andrew’s College hosting two premier school sporting Waterkloof High School events these holidays. The first U14 Cricket Festival was held U14 Charl van Rooyen Cricket at Kearsney College in 1996, the Festival: brainchild of Mick Bissell. Kearsney First up is the annual U14 Charl van hosted the festival for the first few Rooyen Cricket Festival, from 21 to 24 years until a decision was made to Contents September. It is a privilege to be circulate it to various schools around hosting this Festival, which is hosted the country. It was then named the DHS Hosting U14 Charl van by a different school each year. Charl van Rooyen Festival in honour of Rooyen Cricket & DHS U16 a cricket coach from Affies who Water Polo! 1 Games will be played at various passed away in a motor vehicle DHS Hosting Cricket & Water Polo accident on his way back from a cont’d 2 cricket fields in and around Durban. The Schools participating are: cricket festival. DHS 7s Rugby Tournament 2 Congratulations! 3 Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool (Affies) We look forward to an exciting festival Sisonke ‐ We are Together! 3 Bishops Diocesan College and some inspiring cricket from the Durban High School youngsters. The ‘Old Lady’ of DHS 4 Grey High School Extra‐Mural Results 5 Jeppe High School for Boys U16 DHS Water Polo Tournament Weeks Ahead 6 Kearsney College In 2012 DHS hosted the inaugural U16 Happy 75th Birthday, AJ! 6 King Edward VII School Water Polo Tournament, which fast KZN Development became a “must attend” event on the This Weekend’s Fixtures 6 Paarl Boys’ High School Water Polo calendar. Seventeen of Sisonke, Charl van Rooyen Cricket Paul Roos Gymnasium the top Water Polo schools in the Festival, U16 Water Polo country will be participating in the Tournament 7‐9 Pretoria Boys’ High School Selborne College Tournament which is being held from Upcoming Events Cricket/Basketball vs Clifton (h) Moms Com Meeting Siskonke Final Assembly Break Up Day U14 Charl van Rooyen Cricket Festival 1st XI Cricket @ Michaelmas Week 1st Team Water Polo @ Clifton Page 2 of 9 The DHS Herald Durban High School DHS Hosting Cricket & Water Polo 26 to 29 September. This year, as Maritzburg College usual, promises some thrilling Michaelhouse matches. Northwood School Selborne College The U17 7s Rugby Team Sponsored by Peppers & Pans and St Andrew’s College Travel & Sport, the Tournament will St John’s College be held in the DHS pool and all St Stithians College games will be live‐streamed on Digi St Benedict’s College TV. St David’s Marist Inanda Westville Boys’ High School Participating schools are: Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool (Affies) Boys from visiting schools in both Clifton College events will be staying in Blackmore Durban High School House. Glenwood High School Hilton College We look forward to a busy and Winners of the U15 Bowl Final, Jeppe High School for Boys exciting holiday with both events. the DHS U15Bs! King Edward VII School DHS 7s Rugby Tournament Durban High School hosted its Boys. The game was played in annual Sevens Rugby Tournament memory of DHS Old Boy, Robbie on Friday 30 and Saturday 31 May, who was recently killed in a car August. Teams from around the accident; Robbie had been the vice‐ province attended the event, with captain of Rugby. A minute’s silence 10 U17 teams and 12 U15 teams was held for him before the game. participating in the Tournament. The final results of the day were as Once again, it was a slick event, well follows: Winners of the U17 Cup Final, run and organised by Mr Nathan Westville Boys’ Pillay, Head of Sport at DHS, and U17 Darryl Weir of Bizskills. The event Cup Final: was sponsored by Twizza and Westville ‐ 14 DHS ‐ 7 catering done by Peppers & Pans. Plate Final: Northwood ‐ 19 Glenwood ‐ 14 The DHS teams played some Bowl Final: excellent 7s Rugby and won their Kearsney 17 Hilton ‐ 5 way through to the Cup Finals of Shield Final: both the U15 and U17 events. Both Curro Mt Rich ‐ 19 Pionier ‐ 7 finals were wonderful displays of rugby, but tough for ours boys as the U15 Winners of the U15 Cup Final, games were so close, particularly the Cup Final: Glenwood High U15s. The U15 event was won by Glenwood ‐ 14 DHS ‐ 12 Glenwood and the U17 by Westville 3rd/4th Play Off: Boys’. M College ‐ 40 Northwood ‐ 14 Plate Final: One of the highlights of the day was Westville ‐ 35 Kearsney ‐ 0 a visit by three Blitzbokke … Ilunga 7/8th Play off: Mukendi, Mfundo Ndhlovu and Glenwood ‐ 10 St Charles ‐ 0 Marius Schoeman (SA 7s High Bowl Final: Performance Manager). The boys DHS 2 ‐ 31 Westville ‐ 5 made the most of the opportunity to Shield Final: have photos taken with their Pionier ‐ 17 Curro ‐ 14 heroes! Another highlight was a Winners of the U17 Plate Final, Touch Rugby game played by a Well done to all the players and Northwood School mixture of DHS Current Boys and Old organisers on a great event! Page 3 of 9 The DHS Herald Durban High School Congratulations! Brian Dosemba and Nqobani Sean Everitt, parent at DHS, has Dlamini have been selected for been appointed as the Head the Sharks High Schools U17 Coach of the Sharks for 2020. Sevens Rugby to represent KZN Scott Mathie, DHS Old Boy and at the National Sevens previous DHS 1st XV Rugby Tournament hosted by the coach, has been promoted to Griffons High Schools Rugby Head Coach of the Griquas! Association from Thursday 7s Rugby KZN Selections 19 September to Saturday Brian Dosemba, Mr Ruan Lombard 21 September 2019 at the HT (Coach/Manager) and Nqobani Dlamini Pelatona Rugby Stadium in Welkom. DHS 7s Rugby Coach, Mr Ruan Lombard, has been selected as the Coach/Manager of the KZN U17 Sevens Rugby team for the national tournament in Welkom. Sisonke - We are Together! At Durban High School we are will be showcasing music, poetry, delighted to be hosting our first drama and dance pieces. cultural show to celebrate Heritage Day on Thursday evening, We are excited to exhibit our diverse 19 September at 6pm in the DHS cultures and invite you to join us in Hall. our celebration on the 19 September ... please feel free to Mr Sean Everitt has been appointed We will be celebrating as many as dress in your cultural outfits. Head Coach of the Sharks possible of the cultures that encompass our Rainbow Nation and Mr Scott Mathie has been appointed Head Coach of the Griquas Page 4 of 9 The DHS Herald Durban High School The Old Lady of DHS by Jeremy Oddy - Part One Head Master Langley had guided and produced young men to strengthen and promote the development of South Africa, not to go off to the battlefields to be slaughtered in their prime. He had always expected hostilities, however, and had prepared his boys at DHS to be resolute, tough and courageous, should such a ghastly, scenario arise. These Old Boys at war, sent letters to Langley at DHS informing him how they were faring. Their letters were teeming with the courage and comradeship displayed by Old Boys, particularly on the Western Front in Europe. Mr Langley read out these DHS Boys writing exams in the Memorial Hall letters to the assembled School. Many recorded the deaths of ‘his’ dearest This year we celebrate 100 years of Theobald, (a teacher and legend at Old Boys; Tears rolled down his our Media Centre which was initially School 1949‐1977) left his Latin class grieving face as his words fell on the the Memorial Hall, or the Gym. Built in post‐haste to investigate a commotion solemn gathering. 1919, Mr Jeremy Oddy has written a in the vicinity of the main gate at 4part article on the ‘Old Lady. School. To his horror, the dome and Within a year of the signing of The columns had almost been entirely Armistice on 11 November in 1918, PART ONE by Jeremy Oddy reduced to rubble, now strewn across the Durban High School achieved two (Class of 1962) the gateway. The explanation for this major initiatives: destruction was, the memorial The erection of a Hall and the Blackmore House was my home for columns and dome were incongruous establishment of a library in memory three years in the 1960’s.To stand, in to the style of the modern of the Old Boys who had volunteered September 1971, and watch the architecture now in place. to serve their country and had bravely demolishers begin to smash it to the laid down their lives for it. Their ground, ugly chunks of brick and We go back in time to 1910: names are recorded on the Memorial masonry flying through the air, hardly A S Langley became Head Master. His Wall on the Vause Road side of visible in clouds of dust, was an mission was to produce boys who School. horrific experience. The building had were strong, sturdy and healthy team only stood there for 75 years! players, their games would be rugby, The Memorial Hall Today: cricket and boxing. They would leave A new dome was erected to replace The Old Hall, built 25 years after the DHS as men. They were extremely the original structure that had been demolished original School of 1894, well educated and were versed in the demolished in the 1970s.