On Tuesday afternoon, 15 March 2022, the annual Neil Aggett Memorial Lecture was delivered at Kingswood College. The lecture takes place each year to celebrate the life of Dr Neil Aggett and is held to honour his legacy. This year we are lucky enough to have our speaker join us at Kingswood College again to deliver their speech in person. Our speaker for 2022 was Zapiro, well-know political satirist.
Kayleigh Smith is being awarded this honour of the Neil Aggett award in recognition of her dedication to serving those around her, especially those who are less
Athi Galada (OK 2018) has recently been selected to represent the South Africa U23 Sevens rugby squad in a series against Zimbabwe!
The annual Kingswood Golf Day in Johannesburg was back with a bang on Friday last week after skipping a year or two due to the pandemic. The beautiful Royal Johannesburg and Kensington Golf Club hosted about 50 enthusiastic golfers who were rearing to go in near perfect conditions for golf.
On Tuesday, 22 March a meeting was held in Cape Town with a small group of Old Kingswoodians, all representing cross-sections of the Club in the region in terms of demographics, to discuss the future of one of our biggest OK Club Branches: The Western Cape Branch.
The 2022 Senior Championship Gala saw some remarkable performances. Click here to see the record list and photos.
In a move designed to bring the sport of cricket to as many young learners as possible, an exciting initiative was launched at Kingswood College on Wednesday afternoon. e to many talented young people, especially in the sports arena, but very often this talent cannot be identified, nurtured or taken further, due to a lack of infrastructure and facilities. The Young Warriors Cricket Development Programme is a pilot project and takes the form of a partnership between three local primary schools (George Dickerson, St Mary’s and Grahamstown Primary), Kingswood College, the Rhodes University HKE (Human Kinetics & Ergonomics) Department and the Rhodes Community Engagement Office (RUCE), as well as the Gary Kirsten Foundation.
College Head Leon Grové, Senior Head Mrs Tracy van Molendoff, Marketing Manager Danel Pruissen and Carey Hobson attended two successful school expos and also hosted a combined OK/Parent function at Falcon Crest Suites. This was well attended and it was so nice to see parents, past and present, mingling with OKs during the course of the evening.
Kingswood is celebrating! Jacques house is turning 140 years old. If the fine stone walls that make up our majestic girls boarding house, Jacques House could talk: What would they say? What stories would they tell?
With the welcome rains and our return to the College campus, we look forward to an exciting and busy first term. It is such a great honour for me to head up such an important and historical institution and I would like to thank all our Kingswoodian families that have been so welcoming over the past few weeks. Makhanda is already beginning to feel like home. I look forward to the year and am cognizant of the challenges that I may face, however I look forward to serving the Kingswood community for many years to come.
