Pretoria Boys High School (Pretoria)

Pretoria Boys High School. Brooklyn, Pretoria. Fifteen hundred and twenty six boys, one campus, and a website description that reads like someone asked ChatGPT to write a speech for a man who definitely owns a blazer with a crest on it. "Articulate, well-mannered leaders educated beyond the classroom." Broe, you are in Brooklyn, Pretoria, not Eton. The closest thing to being educated beyond the classroom is when the load shedding hits during a test and the teacher just says "julle weet wat, ons gesels more." R77,940 a year for Grade 12. That is almost eighty thousand rand to become an "independent thinker with strength of character." My friend, for eighty grand I want the character to come pre-installed. You could take a gap year, travel half of Southern Africa, eat a lot of biltong, and still come back with more life experience than someone who spent a year being shaped into a leader in a blazer in Brooklyn. And the ratio is 15.9 boys to every one teacher, which sounds manageable until you remember there are 1526 of them and they all have opinions and they all board together. That hostel must smell like Doom and ambition. "Deeply rooted in the spirit of South Africa." The spirit of South Africa is load shedding and a taxi rank at peak hour, so respect for leaning into the chaos. Overall verdict: Pretoria Boys High is basically a factory for guys who will one day run a company AND remember everyone's name at the braai, which is actually impressive.