Rustenburg School for Girls

Rustenburg Schools for Girls
Rustenburg Schools for Girls
Address
	44 Campground Road, Rosebank (High). Main Road, Rondebosch (junior); Cape Town , Western Cape ; South Africa
Information
School type	All-girls governor Body school/semi private
Motto	palmam qui meruit ferat
Established	1894;130 years ago
School district	District 9
School number	021 686 4066
Headmaster	B. Peterson (junior); M. Gates (high)
Grades	R–12
Gender	Female
Age	5to 18
Number of students	350 (junior) ; 863 (high school)
Language	English
Schedule	08:00–15:00
Campus	Urban Campus
Campus type	Suburban
Colour(s)	Blue & navy
Nickname	RGHS/RGJS
Rivals	Herschel Girls School ; Wynberg Girls' High School ; Rhenish Girls' High School ;
Accreditation	Western Cape Education Department
High School Houses	Corvus Cygnus Lacerta Lepus Pavo
Junior School Houses	Wiener,Cambridge,Innes and Michael
2022 Fees (high)	R53,000 – R59,000 pa (tuition); R62,939 pa (boarding)
2022 Fees (junior)	R42,645 pa
Brother School	Rondebosch Boys' High School
Website	rustenburggirls.org.za

Last updated November 16, 2024

Rustenburg Girls' High School and Rustenburg Girls' Junior School are two separate public schools with a shared history, originating in the suburb of Rondebosch in Cape Town, South Africa. Rustenburg was founded in 1894 and divided into separate junior and high schools in 1932.

History

The school was founded in 1894 in the historic Rustenburg House, which dates from the early years of the Dutch settlement at the Cape ^[1] In 1932, the school was divided into two schools, and the high school moved into its new buildings on Erinville Estate and Charlie's Hope in the suburb of Rosebank, while the junior school remained in Rustenburg House on Main Road, Rondebosch. Charlie's Hope was subsequently demolished in 1976, before being rebuilt closer to the school. Erinville is now the name of the High School's boarding house. Rustenburg House was declared a National Monument in 1941.

Headmistresses of the Combined School:

Miss Alicia Bleby, 1894–1911
Miss Jean Donaldson-Wright, 1912–1916
Miss Caroline Kemp, 1916–1933

Principals of the High School:

Miss Caroline Kemp, 1933–1936
Miss Gwen Hazell, 1937–1951
Miss Margaret Thomson, 1952–1979
Mrs Josephine McIntyre, 1980–1991
Mrs Mary van Blerk, 1991–1999
Dr Elizabeth Fullard, 1999–2006
Mrs Susan Schnetler (Acting), 2006-2007
Ms Laura Bekker, 2007–2015
Mrs Susan Schnetler (Acting), 2016
Mr Michael Gates, 2017–present

Headmistresses of the Junior School:

Miss Marion Roper, 1933–1944
Miss Zoë Orton, 1945–1967
Mrs Ruth Jones, 1968–1977
Miss Hazel Lentin, 1978–1998
Mrs Joyce Conway, 1998–2007
Mrs Di Berry, 2008–2018
Mrs Belinda Petersen, 2019–present

Academics

In 2010, Rustenberg Girls' High School was placed third in a list of the top schools in the Western Cape^[2] after placing sixth in 2009.^[3]

A 2013 survey by Fairlady magazine listed Rustenburg Girls' High School among the top 25 schools in the country.^[4]

In 2014, Rustenburg Girls' High School again qualified for inclusion in the official top 20 schools list and was placed sixth.^[5]

In 2015, the Western Cape Education Department stopped ranking the top schools in order of their performance and instead listed them alphabetically. In this year, Rustenburg Girls' High School was included in the list of the top 22 schools.^[6]

In 2019, a Grade 7 student at Rustenberg Girls' Junior School came first in the Western Cape at the Horizon Maths Competition.^[7]

In 2023, a matriculant from Rustenberg Girls' High School was honoured as the country's top candidate overall as well as in Maths.^[8]

Grade 12 NSC Results	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Number of candidates	127	130?	142	152	161	154	136	143	151	152	149	171	143	166	163	154	165
Pass Rate (%)	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	98.8	100	100
Matriculation Exemption/ Bachelors Pass	98.4%	97%	99%	97%	97.5%	98%	99.3%	97.9%	98.7%	99.3%	99.3%	99.4%	99.3%	100%	97.5%	98.7%	98.2%
Subject A's	-	262	324	313	373	458	467	430	508	607	581	631	510	614	558	611	647
Top aggregate	-	106.1%	92.3%	90.8%	90.8%	94%	93%	96%	96.7%	96.2%	97.5%	96%	97.8%	96.0%	95.8%	96.5%	97.8%

Sport

A Rustenburg tennis player at the 2006 Interschools Tennis Rustenburgtennis.jpg — A Rustenburg tennis player at the 2006 Interschools Tennis

Rustenburg has historically been well represented in South African and Western Province teams. In 2012, two girls represented South Africa in tennis and artistic gymnastics, while two staff members represented South Africa in sevens rugby and triathlon.^[9]

The high school has nine tennis/netball courts, a swimming pool and two hockey/cricket fields. An astroturf playing field was installed during 2014 with floodlights added in 2016

The following sports are offered by Rustenburg Girls' High School: cricket, cross-country, hockey, indoor hockey, netball, running, football, squash, swimming, tennis, touch rugby, waterpolo ^[10]

Music

The school has an orchestra, choir, chamber choir, jazz band, wind band, string quartet, vocal quartet, string ensemble and savuyisa (marimba band).^[11]

Notable Old Girls

Frances Ames, neurologist, psychiatrist, and human rights activist^[12]
Jodi Balfour, film and television actress^[13]
Louise Carver, singer^[14]
Janette Deacon, archaeologist
Mabel Malherbe, South African politician^[15]^[16]
Debora Patta, broadcast journalist and television producer^[17]
Leila Reitz, the first woman elected to South Africa's parliament
Edith Layard Stephens, botanist^[18]
Désirée Talbot, opera singer^[19]
Marjorie van Heerden, book illustrator
Pauline Vogelpoel MBE, late director of the Contemporary Art Society and member of the International Council of the Tate Gallery
Elizabeth Voigt, late director of the McGregor Museum in Kimberley

In popular culture

Scenes in the films Spud 2: The Madness Continues and Spud 3: Learning to Fly were shot at the school.^[20]

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References

↑ McIntyre, Josephine (1994) White stoep on the highway
↑ "Western Cape Education Department". wced.wcape.gov.za. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
↑ "Western Cape Education Department". wced.wcape.gov.za. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
↑ "Fairlady magazine survey finds top 25 government high schools in SA | Rustenburg High School for Girls". Archived from the original on 7 January 2014. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
↑ "WCED: 2014 Matric Results". Archived from the original on 5 February 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
↑ "WCED: 2015 Matric Results". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
↑ "Horizon Maths Competition | Western Cape Education Department". wcedonline.westerncape.gov.za. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
↑ "Western Cape matriculants among 'best of the best'". TimesLIVE. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
↑ "At 61, the iron woman of SA triathlons is still a colossus" . Retrieved 31 May 2023.
↑ "RGHS Sports" . Retrieved 31 May 2023.
↑ "RGHS Music" . Retrieved 31 May 2023.
↑ Bateman, Chris (January 2003). Frances Ames – Human Rights Champion. South African Medical Journal, 93 (1): 14–15. Retrieved October 31, 2019.
↑ "SUBJECT CHOICE Grade 10 2019" (PDF). Rustenburg Girls' High School. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
↑ Louise Carver Archived 2 May 2007 at the Wayback Machine
↑ Women Marching Into the 21st Century: Wathint' Abafazi, Wathint' Imbokodo. HSRC Press. 2000. pp. 254–. ISBN 978-0-7969-1966-3.
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↑ "Newsletter Number 52" (PDF). RGJS. July 2010. Retrieved 3 March 2013.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
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↑ Désirée Talbot
↑ Prince, Natasha (12 July 2013). "Spud 3 brings craziness back to CT". Cape Argus. Retrieved 14 June 2020.

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[1] McIntyre, Josephine (1994) White stoep on the highway

[2] "Western Cape Education Department". wced.wcape.gov.za. Retrieved 26 January 2023.

[3] "Western Cape Education Department". wced.wcape.gov.za. Retrieved 26 January 2023.

[4] "Fairlady magazine survey finds top 25 government high schools in SA | Rustenburg High School for Girls". Archived from the original on 7 January 2014. Retrieved 7 January 2014.

[5] "WCED: 2014 Matric Results". Archived from the original on 5 February 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2016.

[6] "WCED: 2015 Matric Results". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 4 February 2016.

[7] "Horizon Maths Competition | Western Cape Education Department". wcedonline.westerncape.gov.za. Retrieved 26 January 2023.

[8] "Western Cape matriculants among 'best of the best'". TimesLIVE. Retrieved 26 January 2023.

[9] "At 61, the iron woman of SA triathlons is still a colossus" . Retrieved 31 May 2023.

[10] "RGHS Sports" . Retrieved 31 May 2023.

[11] "RGHS Music" . Retrieved 31 May 2023.

[12] Bateman, Chris (January 2003). Frances Ames – Human Rights Champion. South African Medical Journal, 93 (1): 14–15. Retrieved October 31, 2019.

[13] "SUBJECT CHOICE Grade 10 2019" (PDF). Rustenburg Girls' High School. Retrieved 14 June 2020.

[14] Louise Carver Archived 2 May 2007 at the Wayback Machine

[15] Women Marching Into the 21st Century: Wathint' Abafazi, Wathint' Imbokodo. HSRC Press. 2000. pp. 254–. ISBN 978-0-7969-1966-3.

[16] Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town, Volume 7, page 154, 1972

[17] "Newsletter Number 52" (PDF). RGJS. July 2010. Retrieved 3 March 2013.^{[ permanent dead link ]}

[18] Plug, C. (25 December 2014). "Stephens, Miss Edith Layard (botany)". S2A3 Biographical Database of Southern African Science. Retrieved 31 October 2019.

[19] Désirée Talbot

[20] Prince, Natasha (12 July 2013). "Spud 3 brings craziness back to CT". Cape Argus. Retrieved 14 June 2020.

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