{"id":838588,"date":"2025-09-30T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=838588"},"modified":"2025-09-30T09:51:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T07:51:51","slug":"four-top-public-schools-in-south-africa-show-they-are-world-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/838588\/four-top-public-schools-in-south-africa-show-they-are-world-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Four top public schools in South Africa show they are world-class"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The An Die Musik 2025 concert, featuring Afrikaanse Ho\u00ebr Seunskool, Afrikaanse Ho\u00ebr Meisieskool, Pretoria Boys High, and Pretoria High School for Girls, is a world-class display of talent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The An Die Musik concert is an annual four-schools concert and musical collaboration between the schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has been a tradition in Pretoria since 1988, featuring orchestral and choral performances by the students from the four schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tickets for the An Die Musik concert, which are available on four evenings, are always sold out within hours, paying testament to the event’s popularity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, the An Die Musik concert was hosted by the Afrikaanse Ho\u00ebr Seunskool, affectionately known as Affies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a public Afrikaans-medium high school for boys, founded in 1920 by Jan Joubert and Reverend Chris Neethling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was joined by its sister school, Afrikaanse Ho\u00ebr Meisieskool, which was also established in 1920. It was started in the house of General PJ Joubert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their two English counterparts, Pretoria Boys High and Pretoria High School for Girls, are the other two schools at the An Die Musik concert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pretoria Boys High School is a public, tuition-charging, English-medium high school for boys situated in Brooklyn, Pretoria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was founded in 1901 by Alfred Milner and enrols over 1,500 pupils, including 300 boarders, from South Africa and beyond, managed by about 100 full-time staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its sister school, Pretoria High School for Girls, is an English-medium high school for girls founded in 1902 by Edith Aitken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pretoria High School for Girls is one of the top schools in Gauteng in terms of academic achievement and is listed in the Department of Education’s top 100 schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Influential people and organisations support it, and the daughters of many ministers and other influential people attend the school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The An Die Musik 2025 concert<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

BusinessTech attended the An Die Musik 2025 concert, and it was striking how well-organised the event was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite being held at Afrikaanse Ho\u00ebr Seunskool school hall, it was on par with many professional concerts at theatres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was equally impressive that four public schools, all within a one-kilometre radius, had a choir and a full orchestra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The quality of the choirs and the orchestras, which all tackled challenging musical pieces, was exceptional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The packed audiences, who included both parents and outsiders, loved the performances and credited the learners for their exceptional talent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The choirs and orchestras from Afrikaanse Ho\u00ebr Seunskool, Afrikaanse Ho\u00ebr Meisieskool, Pretoria Boys High, and Pretoria High School for Girls were brilliant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They demonstrated that South Africa still has world-class public schools, which can serve as a model for other schools to achieve a similar level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Afrikaanse Ho\u00ebr Seunskool<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Afrikaanse Ho\u00ebr Meisieskool<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Pretoria Boys High<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Pretoria High School for Girls<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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An Die Musik 2025 concert brochure<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The An Die Musik 2025 concert, featuring Afrikaanse Ho\u00ebr Seunskool, Afrikaanse Ho\u00ebr Meisieskool, Pretoria Boys High, and Pretoria Girls High, is a world-class display of talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":838606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[23708,23710,23707,23706,23709],"class_list":["post-838588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-afrikaanse-hoer-meisieskool","tag-an-die-musik-2025","tag-frikaanse-hoer-seunskool","tag-pretoria-boys-high","tag-pretoria-high-school-for-girls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838588"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":838635,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838588\/revisions\/838635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}