Durban Girls' College

Durban Girls' College is an independent boarding and day school for girls, with weekly boarding facilities for high school pupils, located on the Berea, overlooking the city of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Durban Girls' College
Location
Durban Girls' College
Durban
,
KwaZulu-Natal

South Africa
Coordinates29°50′05″S 31°00′26″E
Information
TypeIndependent, boarding
MottoLatin: Nisi Dominus Frustra
(Without God, all is in vain)
Established1877
LocaleUrban
Executive HeadmistressMarianne Bailey
Head of High SchoolHeather Goedeke
Head of Senior PrimaryWendy Laatz
Head of Junior PrimaryCarol-Anne Conradie
Grades00 - 12
Number of students800 girls
School color(s)Bottle green and white
Exam boardIEB
Websitewww.dgc.co.za
D&D Gala winners 2013

History

Durban Girls’ College was founded in 1877 as the Durban Young Ladies’ Collegiate Institution by a group of six Durban Commissioners and Protestant Clergy under the leadership of J F Churchill. The founders are remembered in a service each year, and the six school houses bear their names – Churchill, Cottam, Greenacre, Hunter, Palmer and Rutherford. In 1905, college moved to Musgrave Road, its present site, which was donated by Sir Benjamin Greenacre.

Academics

The class of 2018 (84 girls) achieved outstanding results:

100% Bachelor Degree pass rate which will allow all of the girls to pursue tertiary studies in 2019 and beyond. Three candidates were placed on the IEB List of Outstanding Achievers; they are among 61 pupils from 41 schools nationally. In addition DGC had 16 candidates who achieved results that placed them in the top 1% of the IEB candidates nationally in individual subjects.

Exceptional achievements
  • 5 pupils achieved 8 distinctions
  • 8 pupils achieved 7 distinctions
  • 8 pupils achieved 6 distinctions
  • 9 pupils achieved 5 distinctions
  • 15 pupils achieved 4 distinctions

Notable alumnae
  • Lara Logan, television journalist for CBS News
  • Claire Palley, academic and lawyer
  • Professor Elizabeth Sneddon, playwright
  • Khanyi Dhlomo,[1] South African TV Host and the founder and CEO of Ndalo Media and Ndalo Luxury Ventures
  • Kirsten Goss[2] jewellery designer
  • Anuschka Coovadia,[3][4] - head of Healthcare for Africa at KPMG
  • Dr Anne Wesley - head girl, 1949 - devoted her life to the good of children in KwaZulu-Natal
  • Elaine Potter[5] - investigative journalist and co-founder, with her husband David E. Potter, of the Potter Foundation
  • Dr Julia Ambler - co-founder of Umdiduzi Hospice Care for Children
  • Gaynor Young - actress
  • June Drummond - author of crime novels
  • Renée Schuurman- tennis player
  • Prof Lynette Denny[6] - medical doctor and cancer researcher

Executive Heads
1877 - 2018
#YearsName
1 1877-1885Miss Martha Cheetham
2 1885-1892Miss Mary Campbell
3 1893-1896Miss Margaret Robertson
4 1896-1924Miss Ellen Juana Moore-Smith
5 1924-1932Miss Harriet Robinson
6 1933-1937Miss Mary Calway
7 1937-1956Miss Elizabeth Middleton
8 1957-1977Miss Margaret Ella Christison
9 1978-1984 Mrs Marion Harwood
10 1984-1988 Dr Pat Hiddleston
11 1989-2002 Mrs Gwen Williams
12 2003-2012 Mr Ken Elliott
13 2013-2016 Mr Thomas Hagspihl
14 2017-current Mrs Marianne Bailey

College anthem

The college anthem is All Hail the College Galleon, composed by old girl, June Drummond in 1940.[7]

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References
  1. Durban Girls College Promotional Video circa 1995 on YouTube
  2. "WINNER: Entrepreneur of the Year: Kirsten Goss". The South African. 26 November 2011. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  3. "Head of Healthcare for Africa at KPMG". KPMG. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  4. "Anuschka Coovadia, Class of 1994". dgc.co.za. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  5. "Home - The David and Elaine Potter Foundation". potterfoundation.com. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
  6. "CANSA Awards the 2015 Oettle Memorial Award to Prof Lynette Denny". CANSA: The Cancer Association of South Africa. 25 May 2016. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
  7. "Death of June Drummond". artsmart.co.za. 12 June 2011. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
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