Letter home from Norway When you’re at school you never know which image of the place you’ll take with you. Kloof High is your life, you’re filling your mind with millions upon millions of memories and there’s hardly any room for anything else. Snapshots of your friends, the tuck shop, a cricket match, matric dance, the blackboard in geography, the road filled with fetching parents. Aft…

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I had moved to Durban from Port Elizabeth in grade 5 and when grade 7 rolled around and we had to choose a high school, I chose Kloof. Most of my friends were going to a different high school, but I wanted to go to Kloof because my older cousin would be in Matric the year I was going to be in grade 8, and he could “protect me”. A few months later I found out that he was moving back to our h…

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Kloof High School has been instrumental in my life.  My 3 siblings and I all attended Kloof High during the 80’s – the generation that spawned the best music ever and sometimes the worst fashion.  It was whilst I was in matric that I realized that I loved school so much that I never wanted to leave and applied to Edgewood College to become a teacher. I was adamant that I wanted to be an E…

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I don’t quite know where to begin. What seems like leaving Kloof High ages ago, 13 years this year, also seems like just yesterday. KHS provided me with so many opportunities and the educators, sports coaches, administrative staff and principal really encouraged me to seize all the moments I could. I was an A student, but this required hard work. The educators never worked on the assumption t…

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Try everything at least once! Look, let’s be honest, I was never going to be a Prefect, or a leader at school. My years at Kloof (1998-2002) must have given a good number of teachers grey hairs and rightfully so. A good education, from a decent school surrounded by loads of opportunities, is something you either take advantage of during your school years or perhaps a little later on in life…

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I am proud to be a past pupil of Kloof High School.  I matriculated in 1996.  A whole 24 years ago!!  Today I am a proud mother of three daughters, one who is in Grade 9 at Kloof High School! I enjoyed the Academics Kloof High offered me, but for me, the best was all the sporting opportunities we had.  My excellent sporting coaches at Kloof High School passed on their skills as well as thei…

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After reading my fellow classmate, and long-time friend, Kaajal Brijlall’s post on Facebook I am a little embarrassed to write any form of follow-up. Kaajal is a doctor on the front lines during a global pandemic, and here I am trying to remember to keep my hands sanitised and the pineapple-based refreshments from exploding. During my time at Kloof High School, I would refer to Kaajal as Dr. Bri…

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The sweat drips down my forehead and into my eyes, causing it to sting. My lower back cramps. The patient’s vitals are now unrecordable, even with a vital machine. No pulse is detected. Starting chest compressions is the call, somewhere in that crowded hospital room, filled with medical personnel. I realise the person's voice is my own. It's now or never. There's no such thing as fear here, just…

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My name is Steve Watts, I am the founder and co-owner of Slyde Handboards with my wife Angela. Slyde is based out of San Clemente, California. A small surf town about an hour south of Los Angeles. I founded the company out of a garage in Venice beach in 2010 and since have doubled in revenue year over year. In 2016 we were featured on Shark Tank and both Mark Cuban and Ashton Kutcher invested in…

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I have very fond memories of my years at Kloof High School when I look back. I was disappointed not to be a Prefect, but upon reflection that was certainly all my own doing. I had to settle for Churchill House Captain which I enjoyed leading the boys and girls on a sporting and comradery front. I played two years of 1st XV rugby in my Grade 11 and 12 year, winning 29 caps for them and making…

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