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2011 Magazine

The St Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s College

Yearbook 2011

Table of Contents Academic Staff

Speech Day and Awards

Academic & House Review

Highlight Events

Cultural Reports

Sport Reports

Leaver’s Dance Photos

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Zimbabwe National Representatives

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1st Team Captains & School Leaders

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Production Team Editor

Mr. N Hovelmeier

Designer |

Mrs J Kirkman

Printing

Celsys, Harare

Photo Credits

Mr J.H. Muller, Mr R. Powles, Mr. N. Launder, Miss L. Broderick

Academic Staff SJC Staﬀ

St John’s College:

A Quarter Century of Excellence

Staff Photo Back J Jones, J Long, C Bewhay, L Runhare, Prof. Loveridge, J Musiwa, J Chitanda, A Masiyiwa, V Nyamuvurudza, M Kajiwa, A Williams, D Wijers, R Powles, S Hrusa, P Sylvester, T Mukarati, D Rademeyer, J Kalonga, J Mariani, J Oldrieve Third Row J Seaman, K Muyedzwa, R Oxley, T Chirewa, S Jiri, S Ndlovu, M Norton, R Trew, S Conradie, J Logan, N Chirewa, W Mukotsanjera, C Baker, S Sande, K Whatman Second Row L Hopkins, L Frampton, L Cooper, R Wild, G Day, R Atkinson, R Wilde, R Reed, N Milner, R Nel, J Heuer, N Elliot, L Jack, L Syme, R Fox, L Marriott, K Craft Front Row R Wilde, S Levey, J Muller, D Hale, M Brock, S Chikanda, N Hovelmeier, W Annandale (Headmaster), Ross Fuller (Headmaster), A Squire (DH), R Vickery (SM), B Vidovic, J Robinson, N Ratanje, W Taylor, M Kuhudzai Insert A Meyer, J Kanjee, D Ashburner, D Bandason, P Volker, A Odendaal, J Roscoe, B Fodouop, A Sakala, A van der Merwe, J Riley, S Oberhalzer, C Watson, A Taylor, J Fulton, J van der Merwe, T Perepeczko

English

Lindsay Jack, HOD, BA Wits, PCE, UZ Claire Bewhay, BA Rhodes, PGCE, Unisa Neal Hovelmeier, Hawthornden Fellow Jean Henderson, BA (Rhodes), UED (Natal) Shannon Levey, BA. MCC (cum laude), BA (Hons), NMMU Raye Oxley, BA (Hons), PCE, London Jack Robinson, TC, Dip.PE, Newland Park Penny Sylvester, BA (Hons), Rhodes, PGCE, (UNISA) Robyn Wilde, BA Rhodes, GCE, London

French

Wendy Taylor, HOD, BA, HDE, Wits Brigitte Fodouop, Dip. French, France Diana Hale, BA (Hons) London, Grad CE Sue Ndlovu, Dip. Ed, UZ

Geography

Ronelle Reed, HOD, HDE(S), Potchefstroom Bill Annandale, BA, Grad CE (UZ) Julianne Seaman, BA (Hons), Oxford Brookes, Grad Cert, Queensland. Leon Radameyer, MCTC. Dip, LLB, UNISA Linda Syme, BA, UNISA

Shona

Nesbet Chirewa, HOD, CE, UZ Tsitsi Chirewa, MBA, Dip. Human Resources (IPMZ), B.Ed, Cert. Ed, UZ Jesmael Chitando, Dip. Ed, UZ

Sport

Atherton Squire, HOD, BA (Hons) Rhodes, GCE, UNISA Neil Elliot, Dip. Hospitality Management, Int. Hotel School Jason Heuer Niall Milner Ross Nel Andre Odendaal Allan Taylor

Ted Perepeczko Kevin Whatman

Rima Trew

Geoff Day (Financial Director) Sam Chikanda Debbie Ashburner Diana Bandason Karen Craft Joanna Jones Linda Marriott Jenni Riley Penny Volker Morris Kajiwa, Nat. Cert, Science Technology, ILSA Vincent Nyamuvuruza, Nat. Cert, Science Technology, ILSA Shakestone Sande, Higher Nat. Diploma (Applied Biological Sciences), Polytechnic

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Physics

Johan Muller, HOD, B.Sc, UOD Freestate Simba Jirri, B.Sc (General) UZ, Grad CE, UZ Kuda Muyedzwa, B.Sc UZ

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History Mathematics Music

Linda Frampton (HOD) Jonathan Kalonga Emmanuel Mabodo Tinashe Mukarati

Estate Manager

Justin Mariani, HOD, B.Sc (Hons) Computers, HND Information Systems Design Richard Fox, B.Soc.Sci (Hons), UCT Linda Frampton Jason Heuer

Mary Brock, HOD, BA (Hons) Rhodes, STD Cape Town. Sally Anderson, B.Sc. (Hons), UZ Sue Conradie, TTC, Cert. ED, UR Louise Hopkins, B. Sc (Hons) Fort Hare, PGCE (Rhodes) Jane Logan, B.Sc, Pieterzmaritzburg, HDE, Natal Alfred Masiyiwa, B.Sc (Hons) B. Ed, UZ Andrew Sakala, B.Sc. Ed, UZ Ryan Vickery, Cert Ed, UR Jesse van der Merwe, B.Sc (Hons) (UZ), PGCE (UNISA) Debbie Wijers, TTC, UZ

Librarian

Robin Powles, HOD, M.App.Sci, New South Wales, MA, Cantab, PGCE, UNISA Simba Jirri, B.Sc, Grad CE, UZ Julius Musiwa, B.Sc, Grad CE, UZ Samantha Oberholzer, Jessie van der Merwe, B.Sc (Hons) (UZ), PGCE (UNISA)

Monica Kuhudzai, HOD, BA, UZ Jack Robinson, TC, Dip.PE, Newlands Park Rosemary Wild, BA. STD, Cape Town

Administration

Richard Wilde, HOD, BA (Hons) Rhodes, FIBZ Bill Annandale, BA, Grad CE (UZ) Christine Baker, B.com, Cape Town, PGCE, UNISA Richard Fox, B.Soc.Sci (Hons) UCT Sue Hrusa, B.Soc.Sci, Pietermaritzburg Walter Mukotsanjera, BA, PGDE, Botswana Justin Oldrieve, B.Soc.Sci, Rhodes

Academic Staff

Laboratory Assistants

Art

Rosemary Atkinson, HOD, B.Sc, Cape Town, GCE, London Julian Roscoe, B.Sc (Hons), London, PGCE, UNISA, Post Grad Dip, Imperial College Jill Fulton, B.Sc, Natal, Grad CE, UZ Julius Musiwa, B.Sc, Grad CE, UZ Annette Meyer, B.Sc, Natal, MSc, UZ John Loveridge, B.Sc (Hons) Ph.D, London

Business & Economics

Boba Vidovic, HOD, Ph.D Arts, St George. Jenna-Lee Long, BFA (Hons), Rhodes Terry Marais, Dip. Graphic Design, ZIVA Naina Ratanje, BA (Hons) Art & Design (Manchester), PGD (Middlesex) Amanda Van Der Merwe, Dip Ed, TTC Chloe Watson, BA, PGCE, Rhodes

Computers Chemistry

Ross Fuller, Headmaster, BA London, B.Ed. Cape Town, PGCE Bristol William Annandale, Headmaster, BA, Grad CE, UZ Atherton Squire, Deputy Headmaster, BA (Hons) Rhodes, GCE, Unisa Mary Brock, Head of Academics, BA (Hons), Rhodes, STD, Cape Town Diana Hale, IB Coordinator, BA (Hons), London, GCE, UZ Neal Hovelmeier, Director of Culture, Hawthornden Fellow Prof. John Loveridge, Director of Studies, B.Sc (Hons) Ph.D, London Maggie Norton, Counsellor, Occupational Therapist Ryan Vickery, Senior Master, Cert Ed, UR

Biology

Management Committee

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St John’s College:

A Quarter Century of Excellence

Chairman’s Annual Address Mr Bill Annandale – Headmaster of St. John’s College , Mr Ross Fuller – Guest of Honour and outgoing Headmaster of St John’s College, Patrons of St John’s Education Trust, Governors of St John’s Education Trust, Staff of St John’s College and Ladies and Gentlemen of St John’s. I would like to welcome you all to the 2011 Speech Day, in the year we celebrate our 25th Anniversary. We have been through another successful year at St John’s and we are here today to recognise the achievers in 2011 and to say farewell to the 2011 class. Mr Annandale in his report will cover the academic, cultural and sporting activities in 2011. The Board continued to execute its mandate through structured termly Board of Governors meetings and monthly executive committee meetings. The emphasis as has always been in the past was to ensure that our College is adequately resourced to create the environment where our boys and girls can be the best they can be. On the resourcing side we still face the difficulties of funding capital expenditure and more importantly the shortage of teaching staff countrywide. Over the last decade investment in teaching skills in the country has been low and this has been negatively affected by the external flight of skills especially young people. The Board is actively addressing these issues. Today we say farewell to Ross Fuller, Ross joined us in the 3rd term of 2008 on a two year contract which we then extended by another

year. This is what staff members had to say about Ross: “We liked his predictable leadership style and his calm demeanor; he was very supportive of the school’s cultural and sporting activities giving the cultural side of the school a boost”. On behalf of the Board I would like to thank Ross for his leadership over the last 3 years. Ross came to St John’s with a solid track record as a Headmaster and he lived up to our expectations. Ross, you leave behind a massive footprint on the “AS” Levels which you successfully introduced at St John’s in recognition of the diversity of our boys and giving the boys an opportunity of being the best they could be. You are all aware that Bill Annandale substantively became the Headmaster of St John’s College at the beginning of this term. We welcome Bill in his new position, and are supportive of his initiatives going forward. I prevail on the St John’s Community to support Bill in his new position. The Board’s sincere gratitude goes to our teaching staff and support staff for their dedication, competency and loyalty. We look forward to many long years of fruitful service from our staff. To the class of 2011, good luck in your exams and we wish you well in your further studies. We look forward to a significant input from you in the Old Boys Association. To fellow parents, thank you for your continued support under very difficult circumstances. And from me to my fellow Governors and Patrons, thank you for your wise counsel.

Mr. Bekithemba Ndebele Board Chairman

Mr. Bekithemba Ndebele

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and appointing three Directorships, the equivalent ranking of Deputy Headmasters. To some, this may appear top heavy but the aim is to deliver greatly improved service to all stakeholders. Our Director of IGCSE, responsible for Forms 1 – 4, will fulfill a much needed role in the lives of students in these forms. From admissions to writing the actual IGCSE’s in the fourth year, students and parents will be assured of close performance monitoring and individualized attention. Problem areas will be picked up more rapidly; remedial action will be taken more timeously and subject choices closely monitored to ensure that, as far as possible, the individual student will be taking the best combination of options, according to his individual strengths. At the College, we recognise that not all learning can occur within the confines of a classroom. As a foundation for their final years at the College, all junior students will continue to be expected to play a part in the sporting and cultural life of the College and all that it has to offer. Every student in the junior years will attend an annual camp. The nature and venue of each camp will change but the aim is to expose students to experiences that instill skills that are essential to becoming a more rounded person. Camps will challenge and reward. They will instill a sense of teamwork, camaraderie and achievement. Each will build on the last and prepare the individual for life after school. At each camp, students will be expected to work together, create something for themselves, learn new skills and reach out to the community. This is only a part of the expectations of the Director’s position. I think you’ll agree that this specialist role is necessary as it could not be done under the previous vertical structure. The position of Director of the Sixth Form is also a new position. The challenges of life in the Sixth Form are many and varied and these again require dedicated attention if we are to succeed in making the outcome positive for everyone concerned. Crucially, choices and subject options for those entering the Sixth Form will be offered and processed with meticulous care. Options are in place for those who are academically strong and for those who are requiring more vocationally suitable subjects. Qualifying criteria for undertaking a full A level course are being instituted. This is not intended to be negative in any way.

Good Morning and welcome Mr. Marufu, Patrons, Governors, Invited Guests, Mr. and Mrs. Fuller, Staff and Students of St. John’s College. It is with a great sense of pride that I stand here today to present my first Headmaster’s Speech. I am proud to be associated with and to lead this College. St. John’s celebrates its 25th year in 2011 and it has already succeeded in becoming one of the leading schools in Zimbabwe. The College espouses traditional values, where we are not afraid to insist on good manners and high personal standards as well as a sense of community, where individuals are recognised as individuals for their own worth within the College community and all that takes places within the boundaries of this campus. The College is proud to be the hub of all stakeholders – apart from students, there are parents, staff and the wider community that we aspire to serve and to reach out to. At the same time, the College is a forward thinking institution, alert to the changing needs of its students in a changing, increasingly globalised world. At the core of the College ethos is the desire to be the best that one can be – and I believe that by forging a combination of traditional values with modern ideas, we can prepare our students for life outside of the College. As an example of this, two of my sons are alumni of St. John’s College. Both have successfully embarked on very different career paths. Both have said that whilst they may have tried to challenge the system, they have found that in the wider world, the good sense of decency and respect that were insisted upon here, have made a huge difference to them outside the College. They, and many others from this institution, are immediately recognised by strangers in foreign lands for their attitude of respect and willingness to work honestly and reliably. It is worth remembering that traditional values are valued, even in this fast moving world where it is often thought that individual needs are more important than those of the wider society of men and women. Traditional values such as a good work ethic and self-discipline are values this College always espouses and these values carry much weight in the world outside of the campus gates. But, we recognise that the world does not stand still. We recognise that where necessary, changes have to be made if we are to remain relevant to the needs of our students. I have started by making structural changes to the College management. Primarily, this has been in the form of creating

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A Quarter Century of Excellence

Mr. William Annandale The idea is ensure that students follow appropriate academic paths, according to their strengths and not, as has often happened, according to their own, often ill defined choices that are not based on the relevance to them of their post school ambitions. And, yes, I believe that the A level results achieved in recent years can, and need, to be improved upon. I believe that by appointing a dedicated Director to this top section of the school, far better overall results and outcomes will be achievable. Fortunately for the College, two excellent men have been appointed to these positions and I have complete confidence that they will deliver on their respective mandates. Parents, in particular, as fee paying stakeholders, are assured that St. John’s College will return your considerable investment in full and with interest. In a similar vein, the Director of Sport is mandated to develop the sporting and coaching aspects of College life. This includes the provision of coaching and academic qualifications for students in sport related subjects via the classroom. I assure you that the College fully supports relevant and competitive sporting options that will form an integral part of the overall College brand and experience. The College recognizes and values sport as a career related option for many students and is prepared to invest in this belief. Sport is a major avenue of opportunity for the College to partner with other government schools in and around Harare through the provision of coaching programmes, upgrading and co-use of facilities and inter school competition. For example, discussions are underway to partner with one of our nearby boys’ schools to rehabilitate a field that can be used by both schools – we need the space and the facility and the partner school needs the support to bring the facility back

into full use. On the other hand, plans are advancing to consider the possible upgrading of our facilities through the construction of a multi - sport astro-turf hockey pitch. Through the generous support of a parent, our swimming pool will be heated in time for next season. This enables us to use a valuable asset year round, instead of it remaining idle for six months. On the subject of sport, I would sincerely like to pay tribute not only to our coaches and sportsmen and women but to our dedicated parent sport committees. These support groups have added tremendous value to the College and I thank you for your selfless input. At the heart of our success lies the faculty staff who drive everything we do here. I would like to take this opportunity of thanking each and every one of them for their dedicated service throughout this year. A number are leaving the College at the end of this term and I thank them for their part in making the College what it is today. I wish them well in their future employment choices. At this point, staffing is being rationalized as greater economies of scale are possible. Replacement staff, where needed, have been and are being sourced. You have my assurance that we shall enter 2012 fully prepared and ready for the heightened performance expectations now being finalised. As you know, I was appointed Headmaster of the College by way of an internal promotion from within the staffing ranks. This year has seen the process of transition taking place between myself and the retiring Headmaster, Mr. Ross Fuller. I believe that this process has been successfully completed. I would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank Mr. Fuller for his support and unwavering commitment to making this transition a success. I first met Mr. Fuller in 1974 as one of his students. Our paths crossed again in 1980 when Mr. Fuller was a Schools’ Inspector and it was his task to assess my teaching for consideration as a permanent staff member of the public service. A part of his report on me read: A discussion I had with Mr. Annandale revealed that he is finding the teaching of O level literature to a largely unmotivated 5B1 class a challenging but somewhat frustrating experience…..

I wonder how many of our staff might still think the same thing today? He went on to say: Although lacking in experience, he has leadership potential….

And I wonder if he might still say the same thing today?

Mr. William Annandale

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It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back

He went on to advise students: Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other people’s opinions drown out your inner voice. And, most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

On that note, it is my hope that your stay at St. John’s will have helped you connect the dots! I thank you.

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it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking classes that didn’t interest me and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting. Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. It was beautiful, historical, and artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. Ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would never have had multiple typefaces or proportionately spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it is likely that no personal computer would have them. Of course, it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear, looking backwards ten years later. You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

I remain inspired by his sense of collegiality, thoroughness and professionalism. Ross, I wish you well in your retirement, though I have a suspicion that your links with education will continue and broaden and that our paths will, happily, continue to cross. Finally, may I address my closing remarks to the departing Class of 2011. A few days ago, Steven Jobs, the founder of Apple, passed away. Like millions of people around the world, his untimely death came as a bitter disappointment. As many of you know, I have been an Apple Mac addict and I still am. I have been fascinated by the life of Steve Jobs, a man whom many describe as a modern day Thomas Edison. Even President Barack Obama commented that the irony of Steve’s death lay in the fact that most of the world found out about it through a device that he had created. On this note, I am excited to report that St. John’s College will shortly, through the support and vision of the Parents’ Liaison Committee, led by Mrs. Colleen de Jong, invest in a state of the art Apple Mac studio, the first of its kind in Zimbabwe. This will empower our students and allow them to experience computing at another level and to expose them to a whole new world of creativity and opportunity. Steven Jobs was adopted at birth and was a college drop out. In his final days, the value of Apple by market capitalisation exceeded that of Exxon-Mobil. In 2005, Steve was asked to give the Commencement Address at Stanford University. I would like to pass on to our leavers, and indeed to everyone, his words of insight and wisdom. Steve was a believer in what can be described as “crossing moments” – incidents, choices and circumstances in life that you come realise shape your whole being, your reason for being here. Speaking of his first six months at an Ivy League college, Steve lamented that he felt that his working class, adoptive parents were wasting their hard earned savings on sending him to receive tuition that he said he could not see value in. So, he dropped out, trusting that “it would all work out OK.” He went on to say:

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Headmaster’s Address

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St John’s College:

A Quarter Century of Excellence

Address by the Guest Speaker Mr. Marufu, representing His Excellency the President and the First Lady; Mrs. Ncube from the Ministry of Education; the Chairman of the Board of Governors, Mr Ndebele; Patron Mr. Honey and Mrs. Honey; Members of the Board; the incoming Headmaster Mr. Annandale and Mrs. Annandale; Members of the Teaching and Administrative Staff at the College; Distinguished Guests; Parents and Students of St John’s College. My role as guest speaker is a somewhat unfamiliar one for me today, but I very much welcome the opportunity to address you all, particularly in that it gives me the opportunity to express very sincere appreciation on behalf of Riette and myself to the St John’s College Community, for the very rewarding and fulfilling three years that we have been able to spend at the College. It has been a significant honour and privilege to be the Head of the College during this period, especially during the year which marked the important milestone of the College’s 25th Anniversary. Particularly memorable were the Commemorative Assembly, the well-attended Cocktail evening for long-standing friends of the College and the sumptuous banquet evening at Wild Geese. In addition, many sporting and cultural events under the 25th Anniversary logo, took place during the year, proudly underpinning the College’s theme of 25 years of excellence. Many people were involved in these prestigious events, but I would like to make special mention of Jo Jones for her organisation of the cocktail and her sterling work on the 25th anniversary memorabilia this year; the dynamic Colleen de Jong and her amazing team for the Banquet evening, as well as Neal

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Hovelmeier and Penny Volker for the historical 25th Anniversary brochure. As indicated in Mr Annandale’s report and in “The Year at a Glance”, 2011 has been a full and auspicious one in many different facets of College life and it has also given us the opportunity to look back with a sense of pride and fulfilment on what has been achieved in a relatively short life-span of 25 years. In comparison with many famous schools around the world and even in terms of some of our colleague schools in this country, our own school may still be something of a younger brother, but we have most certainly come of age in terms of our identity and stature, standing tall in the community and the region. This was affirmed for me at the recent 20/20 when Mr Mike Whiley, a legendary educationist in this country, remarked that what impressed him about St John’s boys and girls was that they stood tall, looked him in the eye and greeted him courteously and respectfully. If we can meet all people, whatever their position and station in life, and treat them with equal dignity and respect, then we ourselves will be accorded that same dignity and respect, which is so important for the cohesiveness of any community or society. In looking back over the past 25 years, it is important for the College to draw strength for the journey ahead. One of the most memorable moments of my own life occurred when I managed to climb the 17 ½ thousand feet to the summit of Mt Kenya, and what has stuck in my mind ever since is that when I felt exhausted (which was often), I kept looking back to see how far I had already come, and this gave me the encouragement to go forward. So often in life, we do need to be still; to look back on the road travelled, the distance covered and the rocks climbed – to give us the hope, determination and the courage to keep climbing upwards. So much has been achieved at St John’s College in the past 25 years, not only in terms of the buildings and facilities of the school, but perhaps more importantly in terms of the character, pride and spirit of the school. In many respects and in rugby terminology, the hard yards of the schools’ foundation and development have been covered and what now remains is for those foundations to be embellished, extended and enhanced to affirm and consolidate the distinctive identity of St John’s.

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Di Hale, Neal Hovelmeier, John Loveridge, Nesbit Chirewa, Ryan Vickery and Debbie Ashburner, with the astute advice provided by Geoff Day – my particular appreciation. Could I also add my own personal tribute to those staff members who are leaving the College at the end of this year. Their individual and collective contributions to the College over the past years, as I am sure you all recognise, has been absolutely immense in so many facets of school life. I wish them every success and happiness in the future. To the student body, my sincere thanks and appreciation for giving me such a sense of pride in being Head of the College during the time I have been here. In so many facets of school life, your energy, talents and passion, as well as your intense sense of loyalty to each other and to the school, have been remarkable and up-lifting. Certainly, there will be many special memories that Riette and I will take away from the College in this regard and we shall undoubtedly greatly miss being an integral part of all the sporting, cultural and social events of such a busy institution, reflecting such fine school spirit. I know that we shall never again hear bagpipes playing, without being reminded of the St. John’s goose bumps before one of our big matches. In this regard, I would like to record my particular appreciation and commendation for the in-put and example provided by our prefect body this year. They have constituted a balanced and committed team which has been exceptionally well led by our Head Boy, Victor, with his eloquence, inspiration and strong presence, very ably assisted by the complementary and mature leadership skills of the two deputies, Preston and Oliver. Once again, it has been a privilege for me to work with such an excellent group of young men. In particular, the manner in which the prefects handled the tragic death of Dylan McKinnon with the rest of the Form one boys, was truly remarkable, reflecting leadership at its best. My appreciation also goes to the Upper 6 leavers this year who with their individual and collective abilities have contributed significantly to the College over the past years. Part, too, of the cohesive nature of the College is the supportive role played by successive generations of parents,

All who have gone before – successive Board members, Heads, teachers, students and parents have played their respective parts and made their contribution to the tapestry of the College – the challenge now lies in the future consolidation of what has been achieved, with sensitivity for the values and ethos of the school in whatever new directions are taken. In essence then, my message today is that of the importance of maintaining the continuity of the excellent spirit and value system of this fine school. There may well be changes in personnel, organisation and methodology going forward, but what is of vital importance is that the character and spirit of St John’s College, with its inherent values and unique personality, remain intact. An eminent educationist once noted that schools are essentially relational entities, depending for their character and success upon the complex inter-relationships of the people who make up the fabric of the institution, much more than upon operational systems and procedures. Crucial to this are the teachers and administrative staff who drive the daily engine of the school with their work in the classrooms and in many diverse activities and functions of the school. In this regard, I would like to pay a special personal tribute to the staff of the College for their commitment and dedication during my own tenure over the past 3 years. It has been a real privilege for me, as Head, to have worked with such a collectively professional and versatile group of people and I thank them most sincerely not only for their support and loyalty, but for sharing and dispensing their own talents and abilities with the students under their tutelage. Ralph Emerson remarked that education is a matter of building bridges – I would like to salute our staff for the countless bridges they have built for St John’s boys and girls over the years in academic, cultural and sporting terms. Time and circumstance do not allow me to do any kind of justice to all the staff, but I would like to make special reference to the members of the Staff Management Team who have given me such wise counsel in our numerous meetings, with many moments of interesting debate and good humour over the past 3 years. So to Ath Squire, Mary Brock, Maggie Norton,

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Address by the Guest Speaker past and present. I have never before, in my long association with schools, experienced elsewhere the same level of support by parents, whether it be at sports matches, social functions or serving on the many, various and valuable parents’ committees that have been set up within the school aegis. Certainly, the PLC is the flagship of our parental support, once again amazingly active this year, and most recently in the mammoth organisation of yet another highly successful Spring Fair. The appreciation of the whole College community goes to Colleen de Jong, Sandy Jellicoe and the many other committed, creative and hardworking members of the organising team. Again, I do realise that it is invidious to mention certain individuals when so many parents are involved at different levels, but it would be remiss of me not to flag the incredible work, on so many different fronts, which has been done by Mrs. Fatima Naik over the years and, indeed, the contribution of Mr. Tony Machado who has done so much practical work around the school, and for basketball in particular. Our sincere thanks, then, go to all of our many parents who have shown such an active and supportive interest in their sons and daughters and thus in the school itself, helping to maintain a deep sense of community and partnership in the College. Riette and I have been particularly appreciative of the warmth and friendship which has been accorded to us by so many parents over the past years, in spite of us being immigrants from across the Shangani river. Parents may not, however, always be seen in such a positive light as shown by the little boy in a Sunday School class who was being told the story of Lot’s wife, who was turned into a pillar of salt when she looked back. Still obviously feeling aggrieved, the little boy interjected by saying... “My Mum tried to smack me in the back seat of the car, but when she looked back she turned in to a telephone pole.” In the relational tapestry of the school, a fourth and crucial component is that of the direction provided by the Board of Governors, under the long-serving Chairmanship of Mr. Themba Ndebele. Many unseen hours are invested by members into meetings and discussion, often concerning sensitive and profound issues, and a major debt of gratitude is owed for their time and commitment.

On a personal level, my appreciation goes to the Board for affording me the unexpected and unanticipated privilege of returning to Headship at the College for the past 3 years, a role which has been challenging and demanding at times, but also rewarding and fulfilling in many different ways. In cricketing terminology, having retired once, I was offered the unique and unusual opportunity to come in and bat for an enjoyable second innings. One of the challenges for a guest speaker is to endeavour to pass on some useful advice, but I am aware that adult advice (especially that which is dished out at Speech Days) can be rather pompous.... as if speakers know all the answers to life. I was once disturbed to hear a young person say that all parents and teachers ever did was to tell them what not to do in life, and seldom what they should do. Spare a thought, however, for the father who admonished his son (not St. John’s of course) for a very bad report, to which the son replied “I am sorry, Dad, but I am not sure whether the problem is heredity or environment.” Obviously, it is always important to give credit where credit is due, as illustrated by the physicist Albert Malvino, whose book opens with the dedication: “To Joanna. My brilliant and beautiful wife without whom I would be nothing. She always comforts and consoles. Never complains or interferes, asks nothing and endures all. She also wrote the dedication for this book.” In the light of what I said earlier, I thought that I should mention a few do’s rather than don’ts today, in the hope that not only the Upper 6 leavers, but also the rest of the student body, might reflect on these and find them useful for the future. The first of these is to get to know yourself as an individual...your own strengths and weaknesses, the shallows and depths of your own personality. It is a salutary thought that you are the one person you will live with for the rest of your life....if you do not get to know yourself, you are continuing to live with a stranger. Self-knowledge is never easily gained, nor is it always as flattering to oneself as one would like it to be, but the effort is worth the result. It is interesting that poets and writers have often used the climbing of a mountain as a symbol of

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frustration should be a necessary part of your lives. By this, I mean that the modern trend of immediate gratification has been totally counter-productive in the last few decades. The spoilt child smashes the toy because he cannot immediately get what he wants, and many people have developed a “fly now, pay later” mentality to merchandise, sex, drugs and other transitory pleasures, which can be totally destructive. Current trends toward global recession may well reflect a situation where countries and individuals have borrowed and spent way beyond their means. Remember that in much that has true value, life will impose a period of waiting and patience. If you do not learn to accept and cope with this, if you are determined to experience everything that life has to offer as soon as you possibly can no matter what, you may be condemned to permanent immaturity or “spoilt child” status. Just to show that we are, however, human and cannot always be patient and stoical, I love the story of the little girl who had just acquired some new party shoes and was proudly wearing them in the lift on the way out of the department store. In the crowded lift an attractive young lady suddenly spun round and slapped the face of a stunned young man standing behind her. Everyone was shocked and when the little girl’s family was discussing the episode, she piped up “That lady was standing on my new shoes, so I pinched her bottom to make her move!” Fourthly, do try to be constructive in what you say and do. The Indian leader Gandhi had the idea that one could transform anger into constructive activity. This is a challenging thought, as we all have destructive potential when it comes to gossip, rumour, character assassination, criticism and complaints. Try to recycle your destructive energy and potential into positive actions and encouraging comments. Tolstoy once said that “everyone talks of changing humanity but nobody thinks of changing himself.” Perhaps there is more than a grain of truth in that. Lastly, I would also urge you to hope, to dream and to have ideals. Try not to be cowed by pessimism and despair. In his autobiography, Stuart Cloete noted that “some people cure depression by reducing it to despair. Despair is

seeking the truth about ourselves and others. It is arduous, difficult and challenging....mentally, physically and psychologically....but worth the view from the top. Can I say that if you do not try to get to know yourselves, and by extension try to improve your weak points and consolidate your strong points, you run the risk of failing to form mature relationships with others and of failing to make the most of your chances in life. Talking of mature relationships, I was amused to hear of the husband and wife who had a terrible argument on a car journey, during which neither would budge from their stubborn standpoints. After a long silence, he pointed to a mule in a field and said “that must be one of your stubborn relatives”...”Yes”, she replied, “by marriage.” My second “do” for you, linked inextricably to the first, is to maintain a sense of perspective and humility in life. Be an individual by all means, and achieve the very best you are capable of, but never under-estimate your dependence on others in what you achieve.....whether these be your parents or family, your teachers and school, your friends and the other members of your team. No man, or woman, is an island. Be proud of your achievements and ideals but always be aware of your responsibilities and obligations to others....in isolation you will achieve little or nothing. Arrogance is no more than a clanging symbol, whether this is because of social status, sporting prowess or material wealth, because the individual concerned is a transitory being at best, and everything in life is always relative. In a Zimbabwean context we may think we are large and important, but in a world and universal context, we are but grains of sand. It is always important to keep a sense of perspective...either in terms of yourself or through the views of others. The story is told of the famous inventor, Thomas Edison, who had experimented for years on the incandescent lamp, trying to make it glow. When he finally succeeded at 3 o’clock one morning, he ran up the stairs shouting “Darling, darling....look, look!!”. Mrs. Edison woke up, turned over and said, “For goodness sake, Thomas, turn out that light and come to bed!” Thirdly, do try to recognise that patience and

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Address by the Guest Speaker : Mr. Ross Fuller splendid because it is so restful. Where nothing can be done, why worry?” A friend of mine had a picture of a totally dejected orangutan, with the caption “Just when I thought I had all the answers to life’s questions, they changed the questions” In our lives today, the questions are changing daily and we need to draw deeply on our values and beliefs to keep finding the answers. Certainly at this time in our national and world history, which poses so many difficult questions to young people setting out on life’s journey...we need a dash of idealism, together with plenty of optimism, hope and cheerfulness....and who better to provide it than the young men and women of St. John’s College. To the leavers go my very best wishes for the future. You are young and full of promise and I felt I should read these words to you which I came across in Rochester cathedral on a visit to England. Indeed they have relevance for all of us here present, whatever our ages: “Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind.. It is the freshness of the deep springs of life... Nobody grows old by living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Whether 60 or 16, every human being may experience wonder, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing appetite for the future, the joy in living. For you are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your despair. As long as your heart receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from God and from your fellow men and women, you are young.” In conclusion today, I would like to specially thank my wife Riette for being such a supportive champion of the College during our years here and on a personal level for being such a rock of faith and encouragement. We leave St. John’s with our very best wishes for the future of the College. In particular, I wish my successor, Mr. Bill Annandale, and the strong team of Directors in the College

every success in leading the College in to 2012 and beyond. My congratulations go to the team of new prefects who will be announced shortly. I wish you well in the responsibilities and leadership which you will undoubtedly provide for the student body in the year ahead. I can think of no better way to bid farewell than to recount the story of a father who was saying goodbye to his daughter at an airport. A friend said to him afterwards “When you were saying goodbye, I heard you both say ‘ I wish you enough. What did you mean by that? He replied by saying that this was a wish handed down for generations in their family. By saying “I wish you enough” we are saying the following: “I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright. I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more. I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys appear much bigger. I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting. I wish you enough loss to appreciate all you possess. I wish you enough faith in God to hold firm against all doubts. I wish you enough courage to endure adversities and disappointments. I wish you enough hope to keep looking beyond problems to their solutions. I wish you enough peace to keep you calm in the turmoil and trouble of the world. I wish you enough love to reach out to those who are struggling, defeated or broken. I wish you enough determination to pick up the pieces when all you have worked for has been broken. And lastly, I wish you enough ‘hellos’ to compensate for all your farewells.”

And so, on behalf of Riette and myself, we wish the College and all those associated with it, enough in great abundance. “The eyes of the Lord are on those who fear Him, on those who hope in His unfailing love. We wait in hope for the Lord who is our help and shield. May your unfailing love rest upon us, O Lord, even as we place our hope in You.”

Thank you all and God Bless.

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the world. And this it will remain, long after me or any of you, and even any of those men and women have up and gone. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” The measure of this school and its students is too great to comprehend. You see, while at this school we partake of a journey. For me, that journey started long ago (sometime in 1999) and it this speech that marks the end of that passage. Along the way, I have met and been influenced by many people, a few of whom I feel deserved some special mention. To Mr. Fuller. I wish I could express the extent to which you have influenced the man I one day hope to become. In hindsight, the greatest blessing that I have received over the last year was the two terms during which I was privileged enough to work with you. You are a man whose honour, commitment to the teachers, dedication to the students and loyalty to all that this school is, will never come under question. Men of true strength are able to show kindness; tethered not by pride or arrogance but set free by the pure fruit of good intention. If ever I were able to carry myself the way you do, with true grace, honesty and valour, I know I would have become the sort of man my father would’ve wanted me to be. Thank you. Thank you even more for allowing us as a prefect body to work closely with Mr. Squire this year. Sir, you are os dhore. But, you are also a man in who lies a deep love for this school and a genuine affection for the students that walk its halls. I thank you for everything you’ve ever taught me. To Mrs. Taylor – who I’m sure you’ll all agree, looks absolutely beautiful today – I apologise for all the French homework I never handed in, and I apologise even more for the standard of the work that I did. You of all people know that talking is not something I struggle with, but I am honestly at a loss to describe how greatly you have affected not only my fashion sense, but also my understanding of the world around me and the role that I must play in it. For this I thank you. Mrs. Sylvester – I’ve always had a feeling that you see me, even the stuff that I’d rather hide: the insecurities;

Good morning Mr. and Mrs. Fuller, Mr. and Mrs. Annandale, Mr. and Mrs. Squire, Mr. Hovelmeir, the ever-so-talented Staff, the Board of Governors, Invited Guests, and of course, my brothers and sisters of St. John’s College. For 13 years, there has been a green blazer in my closet. While the size of that blazer has changed, and indeed even the size of the animal depicted on its badge has transformed, the traditions and philosophies that it embodies have remained constant. Within the perpetually safe walls of this fine institution, the best of its kind in Zimbabwe, I have grown. Not only physically – from a small, chubby but undeniably adorable five year-old – but also mentally and emotionally. It was a little over a year ago, on the 14th of October 2010 that the immense honour of being the Head Boy of the best school in the country was bestowed upon me. And what a year it has been. A year of highs and lows, and a year of firsts, but perhaps most poignantly a year of lasts as well. In this the school’s 25th year, intended to be one of celebration and commemoration, we as a school have had to endure great pain and even greater loss. I remember the very day I first met Dylan McKinnon and being struck by seeing such confidence in one so young. I also remember the day I heard of his untimely death, and being struck by seeing such tragedy happen to one so young. However, I also remember being struck by the sight of an entire school banding together to mourn what was and what could’ve been, and being reminded exactly why it was that this school means so much to me. Indeed, it is because of what this school means to me that it pained me so to see the actions of a group of respected men and women, charged with the task of conserving the status of this fine institution, decide to cancel a programme that did nothing but add to the great reputation that our College possesses. I recall it being an argument of facts, and the fact is that we have lost four heads of department, that the open day that we as prefects presided over had one of the lowest attendances of recent times. However, another fact is that this school is much more than that group of men and women. It is a maker of memories; of friendships; of brotherhoods and sisterhoods alike, and a maker of young men and women ready to take on

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Victor Muchatuta the doubt; the pain. And I thank you for showing me the joy and comfort that an attentive reader can find in a poem or piece of literature. You are strong when others deem it polite to be weak; loud when dictators ask for silence; and lend strength to others too weak to ask for help. Thank you for making me brave. To all the teachers of St. John’s College. People fail to understand just how difficult teenage boys can be – yet you all often have to deal with as many as twenty of us at once. That alone is worth commendation, but what’s even more admirable is the patience, time and effort that each of you shows. Any of you who have been unlucky enough to teach me, know that work is not a close friend of mine, nor in fact is homework. But I have borne personal witness to just how kind each of you can be, and the uncanny knack you each seem to possess to bring out the best in us all. So, I’d like to take this time to say thank you to all of you that have taught me, my friends and all those leaving today – you have helped us become more than we ever thought we could. If ever someone were to ask me if I enjoyed my time sitting at the back of Mrs. Reed’s Geo class, mysteriously losing Ms. Wild’s tests, being caught cheating by Mrs. Fulton, or overhearing a classic Mr. Oldrieve speech about the connection between character and maize, I’d be left with no choice but to answer just as Mr. Muller would, with a resounding, “Ja, Ja, Ja, Ja”.

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To the class of 2011, my brothers and my sisters. I always knew we were a special. From being the first grade to ever be kicked out of Hymn Singing at the Prep School; to hearing long speeches from Gatsi about teachers complaining in form four – we’re a good bunch. I will cherish each memory that we have made over the past thirteen years. I have witnessed the birth of the greatest P.E. team of all time “T.W.A.P.C” (Twi Oans With Attitube Plus Clab) captained bravely by Carl Tiffin. And Carl, I thank you for always choosing me, even when we were doing waterpolo. I have been involved in deep discussions about the mysterious Murakan and its unknown origins with the always wise Tipsy Chingwena and Tafadzwa Mutendadzamera. I have joined in long talks about llamas and their cuteness with Andrew Wilkinson and Kevin Merrington. I have discussed the engines of Maybachs with Spiro Zaverdinos and Max Passaportis. I have pondered over the benefits of natural herbs with Shaun Foulkes, Michael Hrusa and James “PacMan” Packenham. I have questioned the ethics of bestiality with Dan Spencer, Kishan Desai and Josh Smallbones. I have revelled in break-time soccer with Washington Chitekuteku and the greatest break-time athlete of all-time: Sam “Kajiwa” Juru. I have celebrated “fyna-wynna” with Gordon Lindsay, kooled at ssas with Alex Machado and Miles Eastwood, discussed bad-kitties with Riyaz Sachak and even reviewed Visa regulations with Ulrich Kontchou. Indeed, thanks to I.B girls I have had the honour of taking part in conversations about “what exactly makes Declan Mackay so hot?” with Thandeka Zengeni, Xanthe Lovell and Kudzai Mutembwa and once I even saw the Danish Grizzly Bear – the largest of all mammals – face to face. For the immense effect that you have had on my life, I want you all – each and every one of you – to know that you are a part of who I am: the best part. I will miss you all. To the prefect body of 2011 – it’s been an amazing year. I am privileged to have shared a year with you all, getting to know each of you and working together as a team. Be it absolutely smashing Jamie Forrester in the com, asking Russell Smith for gluten-free rolls, talking about Benjamin Franklin with Wilson Seremani, or standing up in assembly in honour of the first black-blazer the school has ever seen and the person receiving that

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you – those that are here and those that aren’t as well. I thank everyone who has ever taken the time to care about me; to wonder how I was doing. I remember the day my father Victor Muchatuta Sr. passed away. I remember the way my brother Gashirai held me and told me that he was here for me and that he loved me. For anyone who’s ever met him, you can imagine how hard that was for him. I remember my other brother Libalele came over that day and played PlayStation with me to distract me from the huge hole that had appeared in my heart and in my life. I love you man and I wish you the best, from the bottom of my heart. I also remember my first day back at school and how happy I was. This is what St. John’s means to me: it is my anchor in the storm; it is my light in the darkness. I will miss it dearly. Above all however, I have one person to thank – my mother. Mama, I love you. I love you with a burning passion that warms me in the coldest of nights. That burns bright and guides me when I am lost. This person that you all see before you is no more than a manifestation of endless sacrifice and effort. I owe everything that matters to you: my faith in God; my belief in family; my love for food. For this, and a million other things that you have done, I thank you. I hope and know that this school will go on to greater heights – starting with being led by an Upper Sixth Year ready, willing and capable to do so. My hope is that you strive to not be men of success, but rather men of value: as Ralph Waldo Emerson once said “Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character”. Good luck to you all. I would also like to thank my squacks, Nicholas Welch and Shao Hua Li. I always smiled at how different the two of you are: Shao never late; Nick never there. But over the last year you have taught me lessons about what it means to serve and the joy of being a St. John’s student. I thank you both and wish you both the best of luck for your futures – bright futures. As for me, I hope you will remember me fondly. My name is Victor Muchatuta Jr., and my blood is green.

blazer – my friend and the first person who ever told me I could be Head Boy - it’s been a ride. Each of you is an inspiration and to Peter Webster, I remember the look on your face when we went up to receive our ties – it was shock. But Pete, you are the consummate gentleman, intelligent, wellmannered and frankly a bit mean – the sort of person who the school was lucky to have. Indeed, in each of you are qualities that I could only hope to possess and I can not picture this year without the fifteen of you by my side – thank you. To my Deputy Head Boys, Oliver Chadwick and Preston Bryant. The three of us are so different, but it is in those differences that lies our strength. Ollie, for a chop, you’re not so bad. You are the exemplary St. John’s College student: committed, well-presented and with a dogged determination to improve yourself and truly “Be the Best You Can Be”. I will miss sharing a cup of tea with you in the morning in Stuart Chisholm’s office and seeing your smile everyday. You have been a pillar of strength for me, Preston and the school this year, never shy to shed a tear to show your love for either one. Preston, for an Italian-American-Zimbabwean, you’re not so bad either. You are a leader Preston, and your example is one that many would do well to follow. I remember when you felt like the school had given up on you, when your choosing rugby was received badly by the staff. But your willingness to chase your dream and to do so with full conviction is the embodiment of the drive and fortitude with which a young man should conduct himself – you are an inspiration. Walt Disney said, “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them”. In you I see that same courage and it is for that reason that I always imagined you being the one giving this speech. And to Mr. Bryant, I would like you to know how much it means to Preston for you to be here today. He loves you deeply and what I would do for my own father to be here as well. Thank you to you both Ollie and Preston: my friends, my brothers and my equals. Finally, to the people that have made me who I am: my family. To all of you I say thank

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Front Row L. Teede J. Forrester O. Chadwick (Deputy Headboy) Mr R. Fuller V. Muchatuta (Headboy) W. Annandale P. Bryant (Deputy Headboy) R. Chambati R. Robbie

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Governors

G.S.R. Honey, Esq.

B Ndebele, Esq. Board Chairman

M A Masunda, Esq.

D. Crowley, Esq.

R.J.A. Passaportis, Esq.

Mrs E. Fundira - Chairperson, Bursaries Committee Mrs M. Grobbelaar B. Hofmann, Esq. – Chairman, Finance Committee E. Jinda, Esq. Mrs B.A. Lake

Mr. Bekithemba Ndebele

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S.E. Mangwengwende, Esq. Chairman, Strategy Committee M. Martin, Esq C Msipa, Esq. E. Mungwariri, Esq. Chairman, Pensions Committee R. Naik, Esq. Chairman, Campus Development Committee M Tapera, Esq. D. Whatman, Esq. Chairman, Human Resources Committee V.W. Zireva, Esq. Chairman Nominations Committee

Non-Executive Members G. Day, Esq. Financial Director R. Fuller, Esq. Headmaster – College M. N. Mackenzie, Esq. Headmaster – Prep

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the leading girl’s schools in the country today. After a stint at a teaching post in Kenya, he was lured back to Zimbabwe in 2008 to accept a position as a Headmaster. He met his wife, a fellow English teacher, at university and they are due to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary in December. They have four daughters and are doting grandparents to two grandsons. Ladies and gentlemen, for nearly fifty years our recipient is a man who has served the youth of this nation by educating and grooming young people who are destined to make a contribution to society and humanity itself. In so doing, he has led by example and his ever composed exterior demeanour has exemplified the integrity, dignity and humility which constitute the essential traits of his personality. As such, his actions instil deep respect as opposed to fear, calm understanding as opposed to ignorance, level-headed tolerance as opposed to prejudice, and steadfast unity as opposed to division. He is a man who invests his time in other individuals. Always complimentary and quick to praise, from the most senior young men in the Upper Six down to the junior boys in Form One, he proved time and again that he was interested in people and their well-being. An avid supporter of every facet of College life, we all came to rely on his encouragement and appreciate his presence. He is a man who calls on his innate wisdom to deal with the multitude of circumstances which confront him. Deeply sensitive to the needs and perspectives of everyone about him, he relies on his intrinsic faith to guide him, never imposing his ideas when undoubtedly right, but blest with the patience to listen and advise with subtle degrees of graciousness and diplomacy. In the face of adversity, composure and poise have been his trademarks. What is more, he is a man who is an example for all to follow. If education is the practice of emulating a role model then, men and ladies of St John’s, you have been truly fortunate. For his service, moral leadership and devotion, the College is proud today to bestow its highest honour of a Johannian Award on our Headmaster:

Ladies and Gentlemen, St John’s College is proud to honour today a true gentleman and a scholar. He is a man known to all of us, a man respected and admired in equal measure by all who know him in the field of education and have had the privilege to be led by him, counselled by him and inspired by him. Born in Bulawayo, he spent his formative years growing up on a farm in Shangani. After primary school at REPS, he moved on to complete his secondary education at Plumtree where he was a genuine all-rounder, although with a distinct leaning towards a love of willow and leather. He was the captain of the Plumtree 1st XI cricket and later a member of the Rhodesian U19 Nuffield side and the Mashonaland and Midlands sides, as well as being constantly on the fringes of the national Rhodesian XI. Moving onto the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, he attained a Bachelor of Arts Degree, reading History and English before completing his post-graduate teaching certificate at Bristol University. His teaching career started with a three year stretch at Jameson, followed by eight years at Chaplin where he was Head of English. After attaining a Bachelor of Education degree in Cape Town, he lectured for three years at the Bulawayo Teacher’s Training College and at Independence was appointed an Education Officer for the Matabeleland Regional Office. In 1982, he was approached to be the founding Headmaster of Girl’s College Bulawayo, where he spent the next 21 years building the foundations of what is one of

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Johannian Award St John’s College is honoured to recognise the contribution of a parent who has channelled his own passion, drive and pure love for the sport of basketball into a boundless and inexhaustible commitment to seeing the game flourish and go from strength to strength in the school. Born in Harare in 1958, he attended Admiral Tail Junior School and Churchill High School where he excelled at both basketball and soccer. In the latter of these sports, he was one of the youngest students to earn Full Colours at the age of only 15 and he was later offered the chance to play for Sporting Lisbon of Portugal. At Independence he was selected to play for the National Soccer Team of Zimbabwe and in 1994 served on the Technical Committee of the National Team’s qualifying campaign for the World Cup help in the United States of America. He later helped to start the Hokoyo Boys Football Club at St John’s Prep. Also an avid and decorated basketball player in his day, it was through his two son’s love for the sport that he became actively involved in promoting and fostering the

game at St John’s. For anyone spectating at basketball fixtures over the past ten years, he has been a figure impossible to miss, displaying his customary flare and charisma in a manner which, although always very tangible, is certainly evidence of nothing but the pure passion he exudes. Motivating and encouraging players and coaches has been a forte of his, in addition to his considerable contribution as a fundraiser, organiser and manager of teams. This year, he was the driving force behind the successful 25th Anniversary Tournament and was instrumental in bringing a NCAA coach from America out to Zimbabwe, as well as securing the participation of St John’s College Johannesburg in the tournament. In addition, he has personally overseen numerous improvements to the basketball facilities over the years, including the upgrade of the courts, boards and rings and the installation of electronic score boards. For his outstanding contribution, service and commitment, the College is proud to bestow its highest honour of a Johannian Award on:

Mr. Antonio Alberto Machado

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currently part of a drive working on a proposal to install an astro-turf playing surface within the school grounds. Furthermore, her commitment to music at St John’s has been nothing short of passionate over the past six years. She has helped to procure essential new lighting and sound equipment for the department and undertook to coordinate the highly entertaining A Touch of Class concert in 2010 as well as the recently held All That Jazz. Perhaps the most Herculean task she has performed on behalf of the College to date, however, was to accept the responsibility of being the Combined School’s Concert secretary when St John’s hosted the event in 2010, where she undertook to facilitate communications, logistics and resources on behalf of all ten participating schools, ensuring through her efficiency and tireless efforts that the event marked a prestigious landmark for St John’s within the greater community. A true heroine and life-saver to many a staff member, this remarkable lady’s quiet grace and humility has often resulted in her pulling off astonishing feats of productiveness in what often seems the blink of an eye. For her years of commitment, loyalty and unwavering service, the College is proud today to bestow its highest honour of a Johannian Award on:

St John’s College is honoured to recognise the contribution of a member of the parent fraternity for the past six years. Born in Bulawayo, and an Old Girl of Founders High and Evelyn Girls, she graduated with a Bachelor of Business Studies from the University of Zimbabwe in 1984 and has pursued many successful business ventures in the catering and restaurant industries. Within the St John’s community, she has been an avid supporter of the school in many different facets. She has served in the tuckshop and been the scorer for several cricket teams over the years. She has actively been involved with the National Institute of the Allied Arts and was crucial in her capacity as the school’s point of contact for all matters related to the N.I.A.A. As a member of the PLC, she has been involved in organising Spring Fairs, teas and snacks for numerous school functions as well as helping to coordinate events such as the 25th Anniversary Banquet held earlier this year at Wild Geese. In addition, she committed countless hours and resources while serving on the PLC IB Committee. As Chairperson of the 2011 Hockey Committee, in addition to aggressive fund raising campaigns on behalf of the sport, she helped to organise a successful 25th Anniversary Indoor Tournament, a tour of South Africa for the 1st team, was the official photographer at all the matches and is

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Athene Cup The recipient of this highly prestigious cultural award has full colours in drama, music and public-speaking. He is moreover, the first student in College history to have received a Black Blazer for obtaining five Colours Awards, three of them cultural. In drama, the recipient participated in College plays from Form One to Form Three. In addition, he has, every year since Form One, represented the College at the Eisteddfod, each year obtaining several Honour awards. Furthermore, in the National Institute of Allied Arts he was adjudged the Best Junior All Rounder with four Honours awards while more recently, in 2010, he received a similar distinction of Best Senior All Rounder with Six Honours awards. In this current year, 2011, he again earned six Honours certificates. In music, too, every year since Form One, the recipient has participated in the Eisteddfod, obtaining Honours in both piano and vocal solos

and achieving the same distinction up to Grade 5 in classical piano. He has also been a member of the school’s choir since Form One, having been appointed Head of Junior Choir in Form Two. In 2010, the recipient was a host at the Combined Schools’ Concert while in this year, 2011, he participated in the recent All that Jazz concert. Most commendably in 2011, however, he was one of the eight finalists in the National Institute of Allied Arts Vocal Solo Challenge Cup. This year he appointed Deputy Head of Music at the College. In public-speaking the recipient was a finalist in the College Competition every year since Form One, winning the Junior Shield in Form Two and the Senior Shield in Lower Sixth in 2010. In Form Four, he won the regional competition and came third in the provincial finals, whilst in Lower Sixth he won Regional’s and was runner-up in the Provincial Finals. In addition, in this the recipient’s final year of the College, he was House Prefect in Charge of

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Rahil Naik The recipient of this highly prestigious cultural award presently has colours in public-speaking, debating and drama as well as full academic colours. He has been a part of the debating team since 2007, participating in the Nugget Inter-Schools National Championships in 2008. In 2009, his team were runners up in the Independent Schools’ League. As Debate President in both 2010 and 2011, he hosted two invitational tournaments. In addition, last year the recipient was the first College student to participate in the Junior

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Parliament of Zimbabwe and was initially elected as the Member of Parliament for Mount Pleasant constituency, going on to be chosen the Junior Vice president of the Republic of Zimbabwe. Currently the Head of Music in 2011, the recipient joined the Choir in 2008, singing in three Eisteddfods and participating in four Combined Schools’ Concerts as well as being compere when the College hosted the concert in 2010. In addition, he was Master of Ceremonies for the Touch of Class concert. In 2010, he had two vocal solo entries in the Eisteddfod. In drama, in this current year, the recipient played the lead role in the school production, Fallout. Last year he had three entries and won Honours for solo poetry in the Speech and Drama, Allied Arts Festival. In 2011, he had no fewer than five entries, securing two First Grade certificates. In the Allied Arts Visual Festival in 2008, he received an Honours grade, whilst in the Literary Festival in 2009 he was awarded an Honours grade for prose, going on that year to be judged a National Winner. In regard to other cultural achievements, last year in 2010, the recipient was the editor of the College newspaper, the “Ram”, writing under the pseudonym “The Voice”. Currently, he is a member of the Model United National Society, having participated in the ZIMUN and CHIMUN conferences, most recently going to South Africa for the JOMUN conference as the delegate for Libya. For all these outstanding achievements in the cultural field over a number of years but more particularly for his contribution to College cultural life in 2011, the award of Athene Cup for Cultural Person of the Year goes to:

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For his excellence over the years in a number of cultural fields and, more particularly for his contribution to College cultural life, this year the award of the Athene Cup for Cultural Person of the Year goes to:

Culture. He also captained the Upper 6 Quiz Team, having participated in every interhouse quiz since Form Two. Furthermore, this year, in 2011, he has been Secretary of Interact and an active member of Toastmasters.

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“...at just 18 years old, and competing against national men’s teams, he was again named Player of the Tournament.”

St John’s Cross Award This award serves to recognise the outstanding achievements of an Upper Six student at the College who has excelled in the sport of rugby for the past six years, but more specifically in the past year when his achievements have extended beyond the boundaries of the sport at schoolboy level. Having led the College as the school’s Sevens Rugby captain, he was also appointed captain of Mashonaland North U18, and the Zimbabwe U18 Sevens team, where he steered the national side at the Sevens Craven week in what was the first time Zimbabwe has competed in the event. In fifteen-a-side rugby, he has played 1st team for the College in 2010 and 2011, and was the touring captain for a team which travelled to St John’s College Johannesburg for the Easter Rugby Festival. He was the Harare Lions U18 captain, the vice-captain of the Zimbabwe U18 Craven Week side and represented Zimbabwe U19 in matches against the British Barbarians and at the Central African Rugby tournament in

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2011 which Zimbabwe won and where he was named player of the tournament. In addition, he has been invited to the U20 World Cup training camps every year since he was in form four, and in 2012, when he will at last be eligible, he will be attending the U20 World Cup in the United States of America. In senior men’s rugby, he has played in the National Goshawks side in both seven and fifteen man rugby, including a tour to Zambia where, at just 18 years old, and competing against national men’s teams, he was again named Player of the Tournament. Furthermore, he was selected to play for the National men’s Goshawks team against the British Barbarians and was the only player who participated in all three teams to play the Independent Schools Barbarians on their tour of Zimbabwe in 2011. For his many consistent and outstanding achievements in the discipline of rugby, the St John’s Cross for sporting excellence is awarded to:

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Dux of College

IB – 41 points

St John’s Cross Award

Sporting Excellence beyond schoolboy level.

Athene Cup

Cultural Persons of the Year

Foundation Cup

Interhouse Competition

The Salver for Service to the College

For tireless service, commitment and time devoted to the school in the area of sound engineering.

Student’s Student Award

Introduced by Interact and Leavers of 2007 and voted on by U6 students.

Daniel Spencer

Ryan Vickery Trophy for the College Golden Ram

Presented by former Senior Master, Mr Ryan Vickery, the College Golden Ram is awarded to the Best All Round Student in the fields of Academics, Sport and Culture. The first recipient is an IB student who holds Colours in Academics, is a National swimmer and an accomplished singer and guitarist in the senior rock band.

Richard Welsh

Tapiwanashe Ben Siyakwazi Memorial Trophy

Presented in memory of a past student of the College and awarded for commitment and endeavour.

Craig Ralph Memorial

Awarded to the boy in the U6 who has played games with the most whole-hearted enthusiasm, enjoyment, determination and the greatest sense of sportsmanship.”

Garrs Charger Trophy

Awarded annually for the boy in the Upper 6 at the College who has shown outstanding qualities of honour, chivalry and valour; in other words the boy whose gentlemanly conduct, in the true sense of the word, has distinguished him above his peers.

Grace Hudson Preston Bryant

Alexander Demblon Russell Smith & Leo Teede Victor Muchatuta

Richard Robbie

Davis Cup

Best IGCSE O’ Level Results of 2010 : Both recipients received 8A*s at IGCSE in 2010

Walsh Award

L6 A Level Excellence

Top U6 Academic Student

This year, the University of Pretoria, in recognition for the excellent crop of students in recent years who have come from St John’s, offered a bursary to our top academic learner in the upper 6.

NICOZ Diamond Trophy

Best L6 business studies student

Economous Trophy

Best U6 A level business studies student

CBZ Bank Cup

Best U6 A level accounts student

Techfin Research Cup

Best U6 A level economics student

CBZ trophy

Best U6IB economics student

Biology

Best L6 student

Alex Breitenstein

Chemistry

Best L6 student

Punit Patel & Dayne Ettrick

Physics

Best L6 student

Mikhail Suleman Cup

Best Form 2 Mathematics student

Mathematics

Best Form 4 student

Mathematics

Best Lower 6 A level student

Dayne Ettrick

Mathematics

Best A Level student

Shahil Chhiba

Mathematics

Best IB Higher Level student

Shaun Foulkes

Music

Most Outstanding Vocalist

Warren Watkins Trophy

Best Soloist

Overall Performance Shield in music

Music

Adam Neil Shield

Excellence in in Theatre Arts

Harrison Award

Best Artist

CBZ Trophy

Most overall progress and commitment by an art student.

Shaw Award

Most outstanding progress and commitment by an IB art Student

Hannah Danes

CBZ Salver

Best IB Art Student

Matthew Goss

CBZ Cup

L6 IB Excellence

CAS

Best U6 IB CAS Learner

CBZ Cup

Best IB TOK Student

Extended Essay

Awarded to the Student who “through the medium of the extended essay, shows the most drive and passion for his/her research subject.”

Coordinator’s Plate

Awarded to the Boy and Girl who have excelled throughout the International Baccalaureate diploma programme.

Quentin Tannock Cup (Intermediate) Parker Trophy (Senior)

A. Sithole T. Chadwick D. Spencer

Augustine Zvinavashe

Alex Breitenstein Tafadzwa Mutendadzameera Mikhail Moosa Augustine Zvinavashe Thandeka Zengeni

Dayne Ettrick Tinashe Makumure Jonathan Whittaker

Andre Breytenbach Luke Ballantyne Tawanda Washaya Muneni Chirinda Sebastian Ashburner Carl Tiffin

Punit Patel and Wentao Zhai Thandeka Zengeni Matthew Goss

Interhouse

Nyanga

Bridge

Claude Mellor Cup (Junior)

Jake Mallon and Punit Patel Dayne Ettrick

Chess

Public Speaking

IB Awards

Music & Art Drama

Sciences

Main Academic Business Awards

Sportsman of the Year

Briony Pasopanodya & Richard Welsh Peter Webster & Stephanie Purcell-Gilpin

Cunliffe Trophy for Champion Couple Tselentis Trophy for Interhouse

K. Desai & N. Shukla Chimanimani

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Trophies and Awards

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Alex Breitenstein Alex Demblon Andre Breytenbach Augustine Zvinavashe Briony Pasipanody & Richard Welsh

Carl Tiffin Daniel Spencer Dayne Ettrick Hannah Danes Jake Mallon

Johnathan Whitaker Luke Ballantyne Matthew Goss Matthew Harrison Mikhail Moosa

Muneni Chirinda Peter Webster Punit Patel Richard Robbie Richard Welsh

Russell Smith & Leo Teede Sebastian Ashburner Shahil Chhiba Shaun Foulkes Stephanie Purcell-Gilpin & Peter Webster

Tawanda Washaya Thandeka Zengeni Tinashe Makumure Punit Patel & Wentao Zhai

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Five Colours Black Blazer Rahil Naik Colours In Academics, Public Speaking, Drama, Music And Hockey

Colours In Rugby, Rugby Sevens And Water Polo

Three Colours Tie Wilson Seremani Colours In Rugby, Rugby Sevens And Basketball

Academic Craig Mukasa Dayne Etterick George Misiewicz Jake Mallon Laurenz Kruger Leonardo Bescotti Punit Patel Tinashe Tapera Wentao Zhai Fiona Brooke Grace Kabeya Ariana Mahmed Sharai Mpofu Shivali Patel Kelly Stijkel Caitlan Taylor Athletics Miles Eastwood Tashinga Chitambira Gideon Du Plessis Tinashe Wazara Tawanda Washaya

Basketball Jabuliso Dube Tinotenda Mugabe Cricket Malcolm Lake Richard Robbie Cross Country Leo Bescotti Gideon Du Plessis Debating Muneni Chirinda Peter Webster Drama Muneni Chirinda Luke Ballantyne Victor Muchatuta Golf Ben Follet-Smith

Hockey Richard Robbie Deven Bell Alex Machado Alistair Macleod Rahil Naik Nick Bain Ziyaad Ishmail Alex Breitenstein Stuart Chisholm Marimbas Tawanda Washaya Abias Chivayo Model United Nations Matthew Goss Shannon Lesche Peter Webster Music Andre Breytenbach Rahil Naik Nyasha Chakanetsa Luke Ballantyne Public Speaking Rahil Naik Muneni Chirinda Daniel Spencer Megan Woodhouse

Rugby Preston Bryant Travis Simpson Josh Smallbones Leo Teede Andrew Wilkinson Wilson Seremani Kevin Merrington Daniel Rorke James Forrester Phillip Jeans Rugby Referees Andre Breytenbach Rugby Sevens Mark Wright Jamie Forrester Preston Bryant Wislon Serimani Service Matthew Harrison Squash Kudzai Mukaratirwa Alex Roscoe Swimming Richard Welsh Tennis Gordon Lindsay Leo Teede Triathlon Brendon Michell Water Polo Oliver Chadwick Marc Ross Kristie Craft

Rahil Naik, wearing his black blazer, with his parents

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Three Colours Tie Jaime Forrester

Colours In Academics, Drama, Debating And Public Speaking

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Mathematics, Geography

Joshua Masanganise

Shona Language 1

Li Shao Hua

Art

Shivam Trivedi

French

Rory Tsapayi

English Language, History, Shona Language 2, Science, Computers

Federico Bescotti

Economics, Business Studies

Gideon Du Plessis

Art

Dayne Ettrick

Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics

Thomas Ferreira

A+ Computers

Thomas Hill

English Language, English Literature

Jason Lamy

Design & Technology ETA Diploma

Colton Clayton-Howe

Computers

Tinashe Makamure

Mathematics, Art

Jake Mallon

Biology

Geography

Ammaar Menk

Accounts

Kumbirai Mubayiwa

Shona Language 1

Dhruv Patel

History

Mutsa Mungoshi

English Language

Francois Swan

Travel & Tourism

Sander Post

Shona Language 2

Nicholas Taylor

Geography, International Business Diploma

Storm Allen

Biology

Shezad Joosab

Accounts

Grace Kabeya

Economics, French

Chiedza Mavhima

History

Punit Patel

Chemistry

Tendai Sibanda

Environmental Systems

Kelly Stijkel

Biology

Economics

Tinashe Tapera

Business Studies

Nqobani Mbiba

Physical Education

Kelly Wood

Art

Ameen Menk

Geography

Wentao Zhai

Hassaan Menk

Art

English, Mathematics, Physics

Ngonidzashe Ngorima

History

Abhishek Patel

English Language

Shaun Foulkes

Chemistry, Physics

Gillian Jaravaza

Biology, Business Studies

Joan Mushunje

Art

Els Smet

Geography, French

Thandeka Zengeni

English, History, Economics

Paul Lee

Mathematics, Physics, Computers

Brandon Matthews

Business Studies

Thobile Mawerera Zawadi Mayeka

English Literature, Chemistry, French

Dylan Bichard

Computers

Thomas Chadwick

English Language, English Literature

Russell Easterbrook

Art

Timothy Jones

Geography

Gareth Karim

Business Studies

Timothy Kirby

Physical Education

Patrick Machekera

Accounts

Dustin Sheehan

Biology, History

Tawanda Tindwa

French

Barry Vickery

Economics

Jonathan Whittaker

Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics

Lower 6 IB

Form 3

Alex Breitenstein

Rhys Lindsay-White

Devon Marshall

Form 4

Chemistry, Biology, History, French, Physics

Lower 6 A Level

He Duan

Upper 6 IB

Form 2

Form 1

Academic Prize Winners

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The Sri-Chandana Cup for 200m U20

M. Eastwood

The Jordan Cup for 400m U16

B. Naude

The Jordan Cup for 400m U17

R. Gona

The Jordan Cup for 400m U18 The Jordan Cup for 400 U20 The Jordan Cup for 800m U17

G. Du Plessis

The Jordan Trophy for 1500m U18

S. Coles G. Du Plessis

The Jordan Trophy for 1500m U20

R. Welsh

The Jordan Cup for Long Distance

G. Du Plessis

The Sarissa Cup for Javelin U20

K. Lane

Best Aggregate U14

K. Muleya

Best Aggregate U15

T. Makamure

Best Aggregate U16

J. Webb

J. Waller T. Chiweshe L. Teede T. Reid

Wilson Cup for Determination in the Open Age Group

L. Teede

Davies Cup Squash Champion

U14 Champion

A. Onorati

U15 Champion

F. Bescotti

U16 Champion

C. Idensohn

The Bonney Cup U17 Champion McGown Cup Victor Ludorum Open McGown Tureen School Swimming Champion

A. Roscoe

N. Burnett M. Ross N. Burnett

R. Gona G. Du Plessis

McGown trophy U17 Victor Ludorum

N. Burnett

A. Breytenbach & J. Coles

Coetzee Cup Open Backstroke 100m

C. O’Riordan

The Martin Cup for Interhouse Relays Nicholas Sharples Trophy for Junior X Country Champion

Alan Cup

Nyanga

Britten Relays Trophy Interhouse

Nyanga

Cizek Shield Interhouse

M. Hulbert

Hoyle Trophy Open Breast Stroke

F. Bescotti Chimanimani Vumba R. Welsh

Engelbrecht Trophy for Senior X Country Champion

G. Du Plessis

Felgate Trophy Open Individual Medley

M. Ross

Mark Slater Trophy House X Country Champions

Chimanimani

Radford Trophy Open Freestyle

R. Welsh

Simon Annandale Trophy Open Butterfly

M. Ross

Stewart Bowl Interhouse Stewart Bowl Most Improved Senior Player

Chimanimani R. Lioga

Babiolakis Trophy Most Valuable Open Player

U. Konchou

Babiolakis Trophy Most Promising Junior Player

T. Chiweshe

Chikanda Cup Best U14 Player

Tennis

The Honey Shield for Interhouse Athletics

Glover Cup U14 Singles Champion Greener Trophy U14 Junior Doubles Greg Bull U15 Singles Champion Thorn Cup U15 Doubles Rail Cup U16 Singles Champion

P. Davis

Davison Cup U16 Doubles Malahias Trophy for Best Batsman 1st XI Erasmus Trophy Best Fielder 1st XI

N. Bain

Carter-Renard Trophy Best Bowler 1st XI

K. Geyle

Wittingham Century Trophy

M. Wicks

Jackman Shield Best Cricket All-Rounder

M. Lake

Colin Rusere Trophy U16 Dedication & Sportsmanship

G. King

Batting Cup Junior

M. Hulbert

Fielding Cup Junior

B. Palmer

Bowling Cup Junior

M. Rosse

McNulty Trophy Best Golfer Roger Bayliss Trophy Interhouse Van Heerden Nel Trophy Most Promising Junior Player David Richards Trophy for Grit and Determination Hutchison Trophy Player of the Year Interhouse Hockey Joshi Cup Most Improved Player

Kawada Cup Open Singles Champion

A. Macleod

Ben Follett-Smith Nyanga T. Fundira N. Bain R. Robbie Chimanimani R. Smith

Nathan Hook Trophy for Sportsmanship

R. Naik

Szecenyeni Cup for Perseverance

D. Bell

Dore Cup Open Doubles Breitenstein Trophy

Water Polo Volleyball

Cricket Basketball

Chimanimani

John Quincey Trophy

Best Aggregate U18 (Jordan Cup for U18 Champion)

The McPhee Trophy for 4x100m Relay U20

Golf

Senior Interhouse Rugby

Best Aggregate U17 (Jordan Cup for U17 Champion) Best Aggregate U20 (Jordan Cup for Open Champion)

Hockey

B. Naude

Reg Bryant Trophy U14 Guts & Determination

N. Mbiba A. Breytenbach

Matopos

Bryant Trophy U16 Player of the Year

Pearson Trophy

G. Du Plessis

The Jordan Cup for 800m U20

Bereford-Miller Junior Interhouse

Mbanga Cup U16 Rugby Courage & Determination

K. Merrington

The Jordan Cup for 800m U18 The Medix Trophy for 1500m U17

Rugby

S. Coles

Medix Sprint Challenge Trophy 100m U20

Squash

The Wolf-Daimpre Challenge Trophy for 100m U17

Swimming

Athletics

Sports Awards & Trophy Winners

A. Chikanda R. Murray & A. Curtis R. Lock E. Byrom & K. Hopper B. Naude M. Seremani & S. Solanki G. Lindsay N. Roberston & N. Bain L. Teede

Mtisi Trophy

M. Chirinda

Swan Seal of Excellence

O. Chadwick

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Mark Hulbert Nicholas Burnett Nick Bain & Nat Robertson

Oliver Chadwick Richard Welsh Michael Rossi Rufaro Lioga

Ulrich Kontchou Tafadzwa Chiweshe Wilson Seremani Tarisiro Fundira

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Schools Concert both in Choir and Orchestra. On the sporting side our girls have been very active in Water polo and Hockey. In March the 1st team travelled to Cape Town, drawing 4 games and losing two. This is an achievement for a team drawn from such a small pool and is testimony to their enthusiasm, determination and excellent coaching. Kudzai Mukaratirwa qualified for the 2011 All Africa Squash games in Johannesburg, finishing 25th and in June at the U19 Interprovincial championships, Zimbabwe came 6th. In the outside community our IB students have worked at Nazareth House, in the Eye Clinic at Parirenyatwa Hospital, Emerald Hill Children’s Home as well as job shadowed for a surgeon and constantly been willing helpers at the 25th and other College functions. They have done many things that perhaps they would not normally have done and have learned the importance of team work. Our IB students have achieved so much through their CAS actions. My sincere thanks go to Mrs. Wilde and Mrs. Jessie van der Merwe who have guided the students through their CAS programme. The hours of service to the Thornycroft Primary School resulted tangible evidence in the shape of a water tank, newly painted classrooms and an improved library. The 25 hour projects of both Lower and Upper 6 have been very productive. The IB student body of 2011 comprises two students who are the third in the family to go through the IB programme at St John’s, Els Smet and Peter Webster. I am only sorry that there are no more siblings in those families but their presence has reinforced the sense of family and tradition achieved in a short time with the presence of the Diploma Programme at the College. We have had to bid farewell to Leonardo Bescotti and Vidar Gomez. These students are now at IB schools in Maastricht and Sweden and we wish them a successful continuation of the Diploma. They certainly added value to our student body and are missed. There were no attendances at IB workshops during the year, however, we were able to fund from our Geneva account, online workshops for Miss Levey in TOK presentation and Mrs Naina Ratanje in Visual Art.

With typical IBO efficiency it was possible to access the results for the November 2010 students on the 5th January 2011 at 1200hours GMT. As can be seen from the table below, the spread of marks was pleasing although a few students were caught by the stipulation that they needed to have 12 points in their Higher Level subjects. Those that availed themselves of the May retake examination rectified this and obtained their full Diploma. The Dux of the College is Grace Hudson, a student who consistently maintained a high standard of work and commitment with commendable involvement in many aspects of College life. The average for those students who obtained the full Diploma is 33 points thus maintaining the average achieved over the years of the IB at the College. The subject pass rate was 100%. Top grades 7 were achieved in French B SL, Bus Man HL, Chemistry HL, Physics HL and Maths SL. A grade for Extended Essay was achieved in English and Chemistry with 4 A grades being awarded to Visual Art. The 2011 intake, following upon the Board decision to close the IB Diploma Programme at the College, is the last IB intake with no further admissions in 2012. At the end of November 2010, the PLC had been tasked with forming a sub-Committee to investigate the future of the International Baccalaureate programme at the College. Despite staff, parent and student concerns, the decision to terminate the Programme was announced and this undoubtedly has cast a shadow upon the IB during the course of 2011. However, true to form, a splendid bunch of 45 enthusiastic students enrolled for the programme and showed themselves ready for the challenges ahead. These students have come from within the College as well as from schools around the country. It was not long before they showed their ability and team spirit as well as loyalty and commitment to the College. 2011 has seen this fine bunch of students active in many spheres of College life. Many of the IB students have been involved in” All that Jazz”, the Model United Nations, which saw them travel to Johannesburg in September, the Maths Olympiad and the Combined

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The International Baccalaureate Mrs. Vidovic did an online workshop in Student Development. This training was valuable and can be taken forward into any new developments in the St John’s proposed Diploma. Special mention needs to be made of Khameer Kidia, who following upon his achievements at Princeton, was awarded a Rhodes scholarship. Upon completion of this, he will take up his place at Mount Sinai Medical School. He continues to visit the College and is always willing to help students with their IB subjects as well as guide them through the US University application process. Since 2012 will leave the College with only IB students in the Upper 6, I am reminded of the relevance of a quote that Mr. Fuller used in last year’s Headmaster’s speech, one taken from Sir Francis

Drake “in the undertaking of any great mission, it is not necessarily the beginning of that mission, but the continuing of the same until it be thoroughly finished, which yieldeth the true glory.” I intend to lead the Upper 6 IB 2012 to the fulfillment of their dreams with the attainment of that vital International Baccalaureate Diploma. To the leavers of 2011, may your dreams be fulfilled and remember to keep in touch with Mother Hen! My thanks and the thanks of the students must also go to the hard working IB teachers. To those to whom we bid farewell, a sincere thank you and our well wishes for your new ventures.

Diana Hale, I B Coordinator

IB Staff

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Kuda Muyedzwa, Robin Powles, Andrew Sakala, Alfred Musiyiwa Monica Kuhudzayi, John Loveridge, Sue Hrusa, Jane Logan, Julian Roscoe, Walter Mukotsanjere Neal Hovelmeier, Brenda Bell, Maggie Norton, Rosie Atkinson, Raye Oxley, Johan Muller, Mary Brock, Sue Conradie, Rima Trew Robyn Wilde, Richard Wilde, Bill Annandale, Diana Hale, Lin Jack, Boba Vidovic, Shannon Levey, Wendy Taylor Naina Ratanje, Brigitte Fodouop, Louise Hopkins, Sue Ndlovu, Penny Sylvester, Jesse van der Merwe

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3rd Row R Sachak, J Mushunje, P Patel, S Curle, A Garden, K Keen, N Chimbetete, K Wood, T Wallace, A Hogg, L van Zuydam, K Furusa, C Mavhima, C Cross, M Woodhouse, S Mpofu, F Mowat 2nd Row J Donohue, K-A Robinson, S Lilford, K Buckle, F Brooke, E Smet, S P-Gilpin, N Chakanetsa, I Jooma, K Mutembwa, L Zengeni, X Lovell, K Huyton, L Dube, A Dixon, N Worsley, J Byrom, M L-Stoole, L Mahiri, J Vidovic Front Row K Mukaratirwa, C Chigumira, K Stijkel, C Taylor, G Kabeya, R Moyo, N Mundawarara, B Pasipanodya, Diana Hale (IB Coordinator), Robyn Wilde (CAS), Jesse van der Merwe (CAS), S Lesche, J Patel, N Samkange, G Jaravaza, B Chinhara, N Mangiza, C Deans, S Farrell

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Chimanimani House

Chimanimani has had another extremely successful year winning the overall House competition and featuring first or second in the major house competitions–athletics, cross country and swimming. The Chimanimani teams have competed hard in the smaller, less well known areas of quiz, chess and golf; unfortunately there were not house competitions for many of the major sports during this year.

Peter Webster has proven himself as a quiet and effective leader who has managed house affairs with detailed care and consideration. He was assisted by a team of Shaun Foulkes, Xanthe Lovell and Daniel Wijers. This team learnt to juggle their various house and school responsibilities as the first term progressed so that they were well prepared by the end of it.

Matopos House

Matopos did not perform very well in the various interhouse sporting disciplines. However, they did come first in the cricket and tennis disciplines. The house did not manage to win any of the major inter-house events: athletics x, swimming gala x, and the cross country z. Despite not winning any of these events, the participation from the members in the house was good. Russell Smith, as Head of House and his Deputy

Rahil Naik, were primarily responsible for ensuring the good participation. The absenteeism rate at the cross country was impressively low and all members of the house should be commended for this achievement.

Nyanga House

Another year has passed for Nyanga House producing many highlights as well as giving the house many reasons to be optimistic about future years to come. Despite our final standing at the end of the year there were many positives, particularly that of the fresh and exciting new set of under 14s that entered the house. These under 14s managed to break the 4x100m school record at this year’s Interhouse Sports Day. In addition to this, in the Interhouse Swimming Gala the best all round swimmers as well as the runner-up in the Under 14 age group were both Nyanga representatives.

Nyanga also managed 1st place finishes in Interhouse Golf, winning both the junior and senior competitions, as well as in the senior section of the Interhouse Quiz. Overall there have been many notables that can be built upon in years to come and the house will continue to work towards making these necessary improvements in the future. Thank you all for an enjoyable year.

Vumba House

House Reports

Over the years has Vumba has been an emerging force within the College in terms of the inter-house competition. It has seen itself grow from strength to strength becoming stronger in the facets of the Interhouse competition which in previous years it struggled with when competing against the other three houses. The first true test of our strength as a house was at the prestigious and most anticipated interhouse athletics on Honey. The talented men and women who represented the house did so with pride and perseverance giving each race and event their all. However, our efforts were not enough to secure the title as champions on the athletics field but we were content to have placed higher than we did last year proving our efforts to be fruitful. Though we may not be the champions on land, when it came to the water the unicorns showed their true colours and were a dominant force to be reckoned

with as they defended their title as Inter-house swimming gala champions with nothing but pure dedication. It was encouraging to note how even those who were not particularly great swimmers still showed their love for the house as they supported and cheered on their fellow house members thus showing the true spirit of Vumba-“Strength in Unity!” The contributions from all members whether academic, sporting or cultural were the determining factor to our success this year that placed as the runners up of the overall Inter-house competition 2011. We will continue to strive for excellence and once again be crowned the best in the school and we believe in the upcoming young men who sport the Vumba white.

J. Oldreive Matopos Housemaster

Libalele Mwamuka Deputy Head of House

Muneni Chirinda House Prefect

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Middle Row S. Zimuto U. Konchou L. Mwamuka A. Machado M. Chirinda S. Foulkes X. Lovell A. Breytenbach T. Simpson S. Chisholm A. Moor R. Ismail A. Demblon T. Chitambira W. Chitekuteku Front Row R. Welsh L. Teede V. Muchatuta P. Jeans O. Chadwick (Head of Vumba) P. Webster (Head of Chimanimani) R. Smith (Head of Matopos) R. Lioga (Head of Nyanga) W. Seremani R. Chambati R. Naik P. Bryant J. Crowley

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Special Assembly to Celebrate the College’s 25th Anniversary Thank you, Mr Fuller for your kind introduction and for asking me to speak on behalf of the founding students of the College. I am pretty sure that the reason I was singled out was that Sam Chikanda told you I dumb enough to say yes! Having recently returned to live in Zimbabwe having left over 20 years ago, as an 18 year old St Johns leaver, looking around me today makes me feel proud and reminds me that all I really had when I set off these shores was a good well rounded education and a strong set of values. This foundation was forged here in my years at the College. Being asked to speak to you today has made me feel old. I can kid myself when looking in the mirror that I am not that much older than all of you but when I study the pictures of me here in this very hall it is pretty clear to me, and I am sure all of you, that I am bigger (well more accurately fatter!) and while I have not lost as much hair as some of my classmates over the last 25 years I am a lot blonder (well more accurately greyer!). To help me with this talk I emailed 40 or so of my old school mates to ask for their memories and recollections of their time here. There have been a loads of memories shared and I have tried to incorporate some of these, well the ones fit for public consumption, with my own thoughts and recollections to paint a picture of what it was like here at St John’s in those first 5 years as a founder pupil, way back in the mists of time in 1986 when we were a group 180, 12-14 year old boys with 12 members of staff. It is hard to imagine today but when we wrote our entrance exams in the prep school hall over the road, on the way to and from the exam we went past the college or rather the mealie field we were trying to get into. This whole area that is now full of buildings, fields and all the facilities of this great school was in mid 1985 quite literally a large mealie patch. When the first day of classes arrived to go to the mealie patch there was amazingly the core of the school as it is today centered around the Main Quad and the Palm Court. It was a modest beginning we had 12 classrooms in total including labs and art rooms, a lecture theatre, a library, a school office, some tennis courts, a car park, a lot of mud and not a lot of grass!

At break times lines of boys, heads down under green floppy hats, picked up rocks and stones out there on the on then barren pre-grassed Honey field. There’s never been cheaper labour at this or any other school! Our assemblies in those days were held in open in the main quad at the front of the school. As you can imagine in the rainy season assemblies were cancelled regularly, in the winter they were a tad chilly. The hall we are in today was only opened just in time for our final speech night in 1990. We recalled how the school grew with us; there was constant construction and work going on more classrooms, more fields, and more facilities. The time, effort and energy people put into the growth and establishment of the school in the early days was immense. A number of the emails acknowledged the important role the founding and early staff at the college. I am sure the old boys here with me today will have no trouble in guessing which member of the early teaching staff was mentioned in the most emails. It was of course the amazing, indomitable, eccentric and terrifying science teacher Mrs Cunliffe who with her energy, clouds of cigarette smoke and penchant for sending whole classes for “cuts” if they were noisy who with the help of her gardening club laid the foundations of the gardens and the pond here at the school. The other person that came up consistently as having an impact, and this can be meant figuratively but also literally as he used his cane a lot was our 2nd Headmaster Mr Alec Dry who was about this big and was followed everywhere by a tiny little dog called Datsun who on his first day stood up at assembly looked us all up and down and opened with the following words “my name is Dry, Alec Dry and if what I have heard about this school is true... God help you!!” A number of us wanted to acknowledge the heavy involvement of all of our parents who above and beyond the sacrifices required to send us to school here contributed in all areas of the school to ensure that St Johns was the best it could be despite our initial limited resources and small team of staff.

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The second point is one that is far more important now that St Johns is one of those strong and established schools and that is to remember to be proud of who you are and what you achieve but to be HUMBLE and give respect to the efforts of others and treat them way you would like to be treated in return. In Zimbabwe today where the competition for places in schools such as ours is intense driven in part by the shortage of available places. A number of new schools are being established and these schools are having growing pains of their own. I encourage you to compete with them on behalf of the College as hard as you can but I implore you to be humble and gracious in both victory and defeat. The reason I am making this point so forcefully is that I along with my classmates are proud to have been involved in the initial stages of the creation of this wonderful school. However we cannot escape the conclusion our days here at St Johns had more in common with some of the founder members of these new schools than they have with yours the current students. My final message today to you the pupils is that while ones school days are undoubtedly an important part of anyone’s life they are only the beginning. As I mentioned earlier the College provided me and my classmates; and from what I can see before me; still provides all of you a solid foundation for life that good education and importantly a solid set of values. This platform is an immense and enduring advantage in life. A word of caution though, ones schooling really is only the beginning and our wonderful country Zimbabwe is in reality a small place in the context of the wider world. To those of you who have achieved lots at school please ensure that what you have done here at St Johns is the start of greater things not the high point. If on the other hand you have got by at school and not gained large amounts of recognition, do not worry or concern yourself overly. You have the solid foundation that I referred to and there is lots of living and time available to realise your dreams outside of the school. My classmates from the class of 1990 are spread all around the world with some of the emails I referred to coming from people here in this room but also as far

From the start St Johns always competed with the best academically, one of our toughest challenges as founding students, was the building an identity for the school along with some of the traditions and that immensely important “intangible” feeling within a school – the “school spirit”. My view is that school spirit is about belief in oneself and belief in ones fellow students the result of which is that the sum of whole is so much greater than that of the individual parts - this is a very powerful thing in a school. In the early days building this feeling was a really tough task, as we had no real history and no one to show us what to do and building the belief at times was tough as the reality was we were a bunch of 16 year old boys literally making it up as we went along. What was fantastic was that by the time we were leaving school in 1990 we were beginning to count on the Zimbabwe school landscape in all spheres and the foundations of the strong school spirit we see today were in place. The St Johns community and the schools spirit are in my view major factors in the college being one of the finest schools in the country today. This slightly self satisfied statement brings me onto my next thought. I will never forget our first away rugby match at Falcon at full first team level even though the school only went up to lower 6th when we were soundly thrashed 73-3, by a tide of dark blue jerseys we had no chance of stopping. That evening we entered the Falcon dining hall with the whole of Falcon school sitting in silence. After we sat down the match score was announced and the Falcon team entered the dining room amid cheering and banging of tables. This was tough for us as we had given our all and been thumped by a far superior team. When we discussed this later our conclusion was that while our particular group of players would probably not beat Falcon in our school career we were certain that down the line a St Johns team would do so and so it has come to pass. There are two reasons I have that I have told this story: Firstly even back then when we were being thrashed at most things by all comers we believed in ourselves and that St Johns, the school, that we were helping build would eventually prevail and compete on equal terms with the established schools. Our conviction and belief in this has proven absolutely correct.

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Special Assembly to Celebrate the College’s 25th Anniversary : Speech by Richard Honey afield as Arizona, Geneva, Dar Es Salam, Accra and London. Each one of those guys is pushing on, and successfully building on what he learned here at this very school. School is important but remember that even now at age of 38 or 39 we the leavers of 1990 have been out of St Johns 4 times as long as we were here. I now move onto lighter part of what I wanted to say – a few unrelated thoughts that we the founding students have to share with you the ladies and gentlemen of St Johns. We are the reason that you cannot walk on any lawn at the school until you are in the 6th form, only use certain staircases, only wear certain items of clothing after you have played so many games or achieved certain things. It is amazing that these traditions that are now so embedded in life here at the college were literally made up as we went along and felt quite contrived at times. Form 1 and Leadership camps remain part of life here at the College so if it is any comfort all those years ago we too were cold, wet and tired and bemused by the seemingly pointless tasks we were set. Haircut checks remain a part of school life as they were when we were here. I am pleased for the offenders, with long and interesting hair, that the prefects can no longer cut your hair as school boys are generally terrible stylists. Going forward I would request that all furniture for the prefects and 6th form common room have wheels as I understand the art of sofa racing on the concrete parapets when there are Richard Honey

no teachers around has died at the school and it should be revived as it is an essential life skill. Finally have fun at school and if you have to push the boundaries a little in the words of Mr Elder one of the first maths teachers at the school “You can do anything you want boys...Just don’t get caught.” I would like to end on a personal note and to clear up any misconceptions you may have. The Honey Field out there has nothing to do with me. Indeed some of my class mates who are here today will attest that it was a little bit of a millstone around my neck while I was here at school. The field was named after my parents who put a huge amount of effort and work along with other parents into starting this school. The opening assembly we are commemorating here today was the culmination of years of very hard work. What is sobering for me is that 25 years ago my father and mother were my age i.e. just the right side of 40 and my father had achieved one of his life’s dreams, the establishment of a new independent senior school here in Harare. I in contrast still only have the dreams but I am working on them in the background. The last thing I would like to do is to thank you the pupils, headmaster and staff of the college both past and present for taking on and building so much on what we started. It is these efforts that will allow all of us founder students to really enjoy our cocktail party tonight celebrating the small part we played in the beginning of building this fantastic school.

Richard Honey Founder Pupil, St John’s College

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Address by Patron of the St John’s Educational Trust Chairman of the Board and Members of the Board of Governors, Chairman of the PLC Mrs de Jong and Mr de Jong Chairman of the Johannian Society and Mrs. Erasmus, Headmaster and Mrs Fuller, Headmaster Designate and Mrs Annandale, Parents and friends of St John’s College. Someone referred to this as chapter two of the Honey and Honey show which I think was rather rude! I am wearing a white tux in the hope that you will think I am the Head Waiter from whom you would not expect a speech, but Colleen is not easily fooled. I feel very privileged to have been asked to speak at such an auspicious occasion in the history of St John’s. What we as the St John’s College community in 25 short years is nothing short of sensational. I must confess to have had a feeling that I was rather overtraded having had the privilege at speaking at the 1st 10th and 20th Anniversaries. I very much doubt that many of you attended any of those functions save of course Mary Brock and Sam Chikanda. The first Speech day was not an onerous task as there were only 9 academic prizes, 7 Sporting and one Music prize, Wayne Black received the Under 13 tennis Glover Cup which was not surprising.. First a little bit of past history. Why and how was the College started. Well, the why is a very personal one for me. My Father was a busy Surgeon Scot Honey

in Harare and all his children attended Eagle School and Peterhouse. Although he had no gripe with the schools themselves he confided in me that the one big regret of his life was sending his children to boarding schools. He said that one day he woke up and realised that his youngest son was 18, had left school and left home and he realised just how much he had missed his children growing up. This conversation with my Father left a lasting impression on me and I vowed to myself that I would not fall into the same trap. But what to do about it? The only day senior school in Harare was St Georges and was always oversubscribed and there was no way a large contingent of boys from St John’s Prep could gain places at St Georges. I and David Ellman Brown approached the Chairman of the Trust, David Vincent and asked permission to send out a questionnaire to the Prep School parents asking a simple question. “If a Senior School to St John’s Prep was established, would you send your child to that school”. The response was beyond our dreams, no less than 86% of the parent body replied in the affirmative, and the game was on. Dave Vincent appointed me to the Board with a mandate to gain permission from Government to start St John’s College. This was as early as 1981 but plans were put on hold following a plea in 1982 from Bruce Fieldsend the then Rector of Peterhouse who asked us to postpone the launch as he felt that it might well impinge on the viability of that school. We were told by government that we could use the area where the College stands today but that the area was designated for a primary school and was too small for a senior school. Intensive negotiations resulted in a stand adjacent to the Prep school, which accommodated Mr. Shenje who has recently retired and Colin Broadbent facilitated the donation of the remaining piece of ground which now accommodates the main cricket field and the junior hockey field. We immediately informed government of our acquisitions and put in an application to start the College. Having done this Peter Jackson a local architect was approached, and even though funding was not yet arranged he agreed to produce working drawings and plans. This happened about a year before the opening was scheduled. In anticipation of a speedy response from Government

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An emergency meeting of the Board was convened, the green light was given and the tender was awarded to Construction Associates on the absolute and strict condition that the building would be complete and ready for occupation in just 23 weeks. From that momentous day on the 7th August 1985 when construction started there was a hive of activity. Ted Sharples appointed Allan Darwin as his deputy and by January the compliment of teachers had reached 11. At least the teachers could see progress as the foundations were dug and walls started appearing from nowhere. Furious activity could be seen on the main field with Fieldmarshall Toni Honey in her gumboots, marshalling her forces which were initially the founder students picking up rocks and then gardeners of Prep School parents coming under her control and planting the grass. 23 weeks later, bursting with pride and a tremendous sense of achievement at our great team effort we watched the first intake of 180 founder pupils arrive. What faith those first parents had enrolling their sons in a mealie patch, and that was literally what it was when they enrolled. I thought that the arrival should be captured on video for posterity but the intrepid gardener Toni Honey had other ideas. Every time she raised the camera to her eye she switched the video off and when lowering the camera switched it on. This resulted in 15 minutes of excited chatter from the students lots of footage of feet and pavements. Thankfully she returned to her gardening duties which she carried out until 1991 when she retired prompting the headmaster to record his thanks by saying. “These gardens are a tribute to the work of Toni Honey who has laboured long, hard and lovingly over the last five years to establish and maintain them. The Minister who so kindly agreed to our foundation officially opened the College on the 5th March 1986 in which he said “Today we are witnessing something unique in the provision of education in Harare. For the first time the public sector has cooperated significantly with the parents, the local community and government in building a school of the grandeur of St. John’s. These magnificent buildings

the plans were put out to tender and the builders Construction Associates were appointed subject to approval from Government to open. In February of 1985 we were given an indication by Government that approval would be granted subject to certain conditions, but we had no idea how onerous those conditions would turn out to be. Nevertheless we had to proceed. A fundraising committee was set up chaired by Tony Knight. The total cost of establishing the College which included buildings, furniture, equipment including sports equipment was estimated at One Million Five Hundred Thousand Zimbabwe Dollars and at the rate of the day of 1 Zimbabwe Dollar equating to 65 US cents the total amount required was just short of One Million US Dollars. Phase one was relatively easy with local companies giving incredible support, much to the relief of the board who nervously watched as the funds they pledged were being spent at an alarming rate. Only one overseas Trust came up with a grant and that hardly paid the postage on sending out the appeal document. In May Ted Sharples was appointed the inaugural Headmaster for a school which did not exist and such was his faith in the project that he accepted the appointment whilst walking through a patch of mealies planted where the school was to be built. Such was the faith of the Board that they agreed to guarantee funding so that the project could proceed. In July the first students wrote their exams, again an incredible show of faith as we were still in fierce negotiations with government who refused to back down on their stringent conditions centering on level of fees and racial mix from day one. By the 1st August agreement had still not been reached and at a meeting with Ministry , the late David Zamchiya a fellow governor and I had the unpleasant task of informing the Ministry of Education that we could not accept their conditions and that we were regrettably going to abandon the project. This decision was taken at 11.30 and to our enormous relief and gratitude the then Minister of education Minister Mutumbuku telephoned me to say that he had granted permission for the establishment of St John’s College without any laid down pre conditions save that we work towards the goals of Government.

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Address by Patron of the St John’s Educational Trust : Mr. Scot Honey are a proof of a successful cooperative activity on which government and the people of Zimbabwe are pinning their hopes. I am afraid this has been rather a dry account but I will leave you with a few stories some of which I confess I pinched from Emails received by Richard Honey when he was addressing the College Assembly yesterday. Alec Dry after only a week at the helm told me that he had never seen so many children wandering around with wire from coat hangers on their teeth, and instead of a child getting a hiding for not completing his homework it was accepted that he had something called Dyslexia, which he confessed he had never heard of. After a particularly exhausting day for Alec having beaten a whole class (someone said he did press ups with one arm to enable him to carry out such strenuous activity.) I was asked to speak to him about his excessive use of the cane. He was totally unrepentant and suggested that if it was a parent making the complaint they should join the line and he would beat them as well. Shortly after that an article appeared in the Herald which talked of Capital punishment being carried out at St John’s which led the founder pupils to build

a set of gallows on the corner of the main field. The prize for ingenuity must go to a member of one of the first science classes who in answer to the question “How would one determine the height of a building through the use of an Anaroid Barometer” said his solution was to lower the barometer on a piece of string from the top of the building, till it touched the ground and measure the piece of string. Time was never on our side and Bill Jordan needed to complete the now cricket oval in time for the cricket season. The fact that a river ran through the middle of the field didn’t phase him one bit. He simply dug an enormous trench into which he laid a one metre concrete pipe. Later when he was asked by the Water Authorities what had happened to the river and on whose authority the course of the river had been changed he had a lapse of memory and said he couldn’t remember seeing a river. Ladies and Gentlemen of St Johns I have spoken for long enough probably stopping you enjoying yourself at such a joyous occasion, so I would now like you to raise your glasses and drink a toast to St Johns.

Mr Scot Honey

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This production was a challenge as we took a relatively bland script about nuclear war in the northern hemisphere affecting the Zimbabwean community. The play was set at St John’s College and ended up being quite topical re world events in Japan earlier this year. The cast was extensive and included junior and senior members and was

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The drama group has grown notably and we have enjoyed the skill and input of our support drama coach Tatenda Mangosho who helped to stage our junior play ‘The Pied Piper’ at the end of the year. The play was a riot of colour and fun and drew on many of the junior members of the College.

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This year more candidates were entered for the Allied Arts Eisteddfod than in previous years of which we attained a number of Honours grades by Rahil Naik as well as a pleasing number of First and Second grades by other participants ranging from 13 years of age upwards. We hope more pupils will be encouraged to take part in this event next year.

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produced to entertain as well as to set the audience thinking about their responses to serious issues.

Drama has an important role to play in the development of our students as the skills and qualities developed by students in drama such as teamwork, creativity, leadership and risk taking are assets in all subjects and all areas of life. Drama stimulates the imagination and allows the students to explore issues and experiences in a safe and supportive environment. This is what we as The Performing Arts Club and Drama coaches strive to embrace and inculcate in students.

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The boys played well in the tournament despite failing to win the tournament. We had a good start winning the 3 group game but we then lost to St Benedicts in the deciding game for our pool who was going the be placed 1st on the log standing. The boys started well but we were affected by the small court we played and it took us time to get used to the short court. We had the last possession to win the game but we missed the opportunity to win it. We then went on to face Durban High in the quarter final and the boys stepped up to go to half time level against the eventual winners of the tournament. We failed to handle to pressure at the end of the 4th quarter and Durban High took advantage of our turnover and won the game. Our last game was a playoff game that we won in the last 2 minutes of the game with Sijabuliso Dube scoring the most important points which then left us on position number 5 out of 20 school which took part in the tournament.

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Basketball Tour to South Africa Alex Machado (Captain), Ulrich Kontchou (Vice), Victor Muchatuta, Preston Bryant, Rufaro Lioga, Wilson Seremani, Joshua Smallbones, Tinotenda Mugabe, Sijabuliso Dube, Tawanda Washaya, Tapiwa Chingwena, Tinotenda Chinyani, Tarisai Bandason Coach: S Lawson Assistant: E Banda Technical Advisor: T Machado

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T. Bandason, T. Chinyani, T. Mugabe, T. Washaya, T. Chingwena, R. Lioga J. Smallbones, V. Muchatuta, A. Machado, W. Mukotsanjera (Manager), U. Kontchou, W. Seremani, P. Bryant

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International Schools Golf Challenge There were 31 South African Schools participating and St John’s Harare. The four boys who represented us were Ben Follett-Smith, Jeff Chitando, Travis Smith and Kieran Vincent. None of these had been to this tournament before as St John’s boys, so it was a new experience for them. Consequently they did not acquit themselves as well as Mr Chirewa and I had hoped! Days 1 and 2 they played in partners and by the close of the second day we were coming 27th. Days 3 and 4 were individual scores and here we picked up slightly, ending up 22nd overall. This just put us in the silver medal category – huge relief! We also managed to beat

St John’s Johannesburg which was a small victory! Overall we all thoroughly enjoyed the trip, the boys had much fun in the evening, and I had hard work to keep them out of the casino! Kieran Vincent, being so small, was the darling of the tournament, adored by competitors and coaches alike. At least 2 dozen people enquired after his progress every day, and SuperSport insisted on interviewing him. There will be coverage of the tournament on SuperSport 6, on Thursday 8 September at 9pm. Anyhow I feel it was a successful; tour and hope the boys will be well-prepared to perform better next year.

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Kieran Vincent, Travis Smith, Linda Syme, Ben Follett-Smith, Jeff Chitando

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Golf Tour to Stellenbosch We travelled and arrived on time, meeting with Mrs. FollettSmith and daughter in Stellenbosch. The accommodation and meals were of a high standard. We had challenges of transport because each time we wanted to go away from the hotel e.g. go to a golf course or shopping; we had to hire a minibus. On Sunday boys tried to have a pre booked practice round which got rained off after the first 6 holes. The organisers, Brothers Sports, made a lot of effort in making the event run as smooth as possible. They could have improved by making sure that all participants stayed in one venue for easier transport logistics. We were made to play against the same schools through the 4 rounds of golf. While it was a competition, we needed the players to be able to build friendships as well. I highlighted this to the organisers and they indicated that they will consider it next time. They are going to communicate with us on where the next tournament will be held in 2 years’ time. Day One – Monday. According to handicaps, Ben, Jeff and Travis were playing in the A division [h/c up to 5] and Vitalis in the B division [h/c 6 to 10].We played at Devonvale, some 20 minutes drove away from Stellenbosch Protea hotel. We had to have breakfast at 6 am, and start travelling in the dark. Our first tee off time was at 7.20. The weather was not forgiving as it was cold and windy. I walked round with Jeff, Ben was with RFS and Travis with his grandparents. Vitalis shot 83, Travis 83, Ben 77 and Jeff 74

Day Two – Tuesday. This was a very bad day in terms of weather. We played at Erinvale, another 20- 30 minute drive away, early tee off and travelling in the dark. I consider this course to be the most challenging of all four we played on because of the hilly terrain. It basically rained throughout the first 9 holes. However, after this 9 holes Ben had shot 3 under. I walked round with Vitalis. At the end of the day Ben had shot 77, Jeff 79, Vitalis 88 and Travis 90. School was coming 7th. Day Three – Wednesday. This was very close to where we were staying and the weather was much better. The cloud had disappeared and it got warmer. This gave us an opportunity to show off our sponsored GreenFuel 100% Zimbabwean kit. Boys did not play as well as expected but considering that it was an unfamiliar course, they did the best they could, especially Ben and Jeff. I walked round with Vitalis and Travis. Ben shot 76, Jeff 79, Travis 83 and Vitalis 83. Day Four – De Zalze. The weather remained fine. I walked round with Travis for the first nine holes and then some few drizzles interfered. Ben shot 74, Jeff 79, Travis 76 and Vitalis 88. Overall the school was placed 11th out of 37 schools. Individually Ben was 11th and 4th i.e. gross and Nett respectively. Jeff came 26th and 16th, Travis came 36th and 36th and Vitalis came 38th and 37th. Our boys managed to make a lot of friends especially with the New Zealanders as they exchanged shirts. We need to train hard for the next tour.

Nesbet Chirewa Golf Tour to Stellenbosch

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Travis Smith, Vitalis Bhunu, Ben Follett-Smith, Mr N Chirewa, Jeff Chitando

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side, Windhoek High on a freezing early morning. We were sloppy at first and were 3-0 down at half time, but the boys showed their heart and we ended up scoring two goals and very nearly tied the game up however time had run out. We ended up just losing 3-2! Another challenging game was imminent: Parktown had a brilliant record, but this did not dishearten us. Again our trend of starting badly was cutting us deep as we were 2-0 down in the first half but managed to bring the game back with a goal and yet again very nearly drawing in the dieing seconds with a short corner just pushing wide of the post. Special mention to Nick Bain for a gallant line save which he had mastered in many games. Our last match was our toughest rivals, Michaelhouse who managed to beat us 9-0, although the boys never once gave up! Other than playing on the astro, we had many exciting activities, along with the events of room 18 and I would like to thank everybody involved making the tour possible as it was truly an amazing experience. Finally I would like to commend the team on a “never say die” attitude and was privileged to play with such a side.

An extremely eager and enthusiastic team met at Harare airport at 5:30 in the morning of departure to Johannesburg for a pre-season tour against some of South Africa’s top hockey schools. We arrived anxious, and didn’t know what to expect! Upon settling in a luxurious City lodge hotel we immediately headed to the Astroturf to get used to the facilities that we were not used to playing on and appeared to adapt relatively well. Our first encounter was the day-one Joburg invitational side which was an evenly contested match throughout. However we managed to slip a goal in early in the game and walked away with a 1-0 victory which most definitely raised our confidence, and was obviously much needed. Our second encounter was the hosts of the tournament, St. Stithian’s College. We had started the match at lightning pace and a moment of brilliance from Alistair Macleod put us ahead. From being 2-0 up at half time after an outstanding drag flick save by Stuart Chisholm, we had become complacent and they proved to be the better side coming back and snatching the game with a 4-2 win, however our spirits were still high! We went on to challenge the Namibian

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Girl’s Hockey Tour to Cape Town April 2011 In March this year the College and in particular the IB girls were raised to new heights as we undertook the pioneering all girls tour to ever represent St John’s. The tour itself saw us travelling to Cape Town where we spent five days refining our skills and playing pool matches against our South African counterparts as well as home teams Convent and Arundel. We experienced something that resembled life at university, (all be it very hockey orientated), staying in the dorms and living on campus at

Stellenbosh University while we were on the camp. After having completed our matches we spent two days exploring Cape Town with our amazing coach Mr Nel and our “tour mum” Mrs Reed. They went out of their way to ensure we all had a wonderful trip, taking us shopping, to a rugby match and on a tour of UCT. All in all it was an unforgettable week filled with incredible experiences, wonderful people and a host of activities to suit all tastes.

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our last game, this time we won significantly 26-5. Preston Bryant and Daniel Rorke were named our men of the match for this game. Our final game was against the renown Paarl Boys from Cape Town. Defense was critical in this game and although we were tested over and over again. I was again proud of the team for not giving up and as a result gained the respect from some of South Africa’s best schoolboy rugby players. Although we lost the game 35-9 we had the last say with a passage of play I’ll never forget where Joshua Smallbones scored in the corner for a pushover try, and as a result, was named our Man of the Match for that game. A learning experience to say the least, and although we had a tough run, this could only build us stronger and closer for the season ahead. As simply put by Frank A. Clark, “If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” If we put 100% into everything we do, day in and day out, things will fall your way and the situation will be yours to conquer. A special mention to the management and coaches on the tour who dedicated their time and effort to make sure we were physically fit, strategically confident and game plan ready. I am also proud to announce that Ulrich Konchou was offered a full ride scholarship to The University of Johannesburg, and James Forrester who was named Zimbabwe St. John’s player of the tournament. Last but not least a special mention to my touring team, every individual put up their hands and decided to be counted, and no matter the circumstance never gave up, for the sake of the team. I’m proud of you all and I wish you, my friends, all the best for the future, I know this is a tour you will always remember. “Much Love”

The Easter Rugby Festival held at St John’s Johannesburg is a prestigious tournament held every year to display the caliber of rugby that South Africa has to offer. We, as St John’s students from Zimbabwe, were lucky enough to be invited to this tournament and show what we were made of. We knew right away that the tour was not going to be easy with the likes of Affies, Parktown boys and Paarl Boys, all of whom were well-known for their rugby tenacity in South Africa. First up was the dominant Affies. This game was something I’m sure all the boys learnt from. Going into the game, we felt confident enough to put on a show. Right off the bat we did play some excellent rugby until about 10 minutes into the first half when Affies displayed some immaculate running rugby and their style of play was magnificent, similar to that of the Blue Bulls. We, as St John’s students although significantly beaten by 85-3 kept our heads up and knew our time would come soon enough to prove our worth. A special mention must go to Leo Teede who, once on, although the smallest on the field, put in some massive tackles against the biggest on the Affies roster, and was later named our man of the match. The next game was one of my proudest moments as a St John’s rugby player. Parktown, as we had watched the day we played Affies were a solid, disciplined side. Going into this game we knew without a doubt was a must-win, especially after the dreaded defeat against Affies. It was a cold, misty morning, which was ironic because the boys came on the field with intent, ambition and a fire of Dominus Pastor in their hearts. Throughout the game it was a physical battle but we pushed through with some outstanding tries from James Forrester and Wilson Seremani. Although underestimated by our opponents as a result of

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Easter Rugby Festival Team Back T. Chinyani N. Mavimba B. Grainger D. Spencer K. Ellse Middle K. Merrington G. Lindsay A. Moorcroft D. Rorke H. Swan J. Smallbones T. Midzi A. Wilkinson A. Demblon A. Ferreira Seated T. Simpson U. Kontchou L. Teede Mr R. Vickery P. Bryant (Captain) J. Forrester (Vice Captain) Mr A. Ferreira O. Chadwick W. Seremani J. Dube Front Rambo

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French Tour In August of this year just over 20 students along with both Madame Fodouop and Madame Taylor embarked on a sensational journey to France to study at a language school in the small coastal town of Antibes. The Centre International d’Antibes was a beautiful place with dormitories capable of housing over 200 students. However, it was rather empty at that time of year. Our small group of students were joined only by a larger group of very sociable Italians with which we all made great friends. There were classes in the mornings and outings during the afternoons. Classes were extremely interesting, a rare occasion on which school was exceptionally enjoyable. But, of course, the outings were the best. We visited the beaches of Cannes, Nice and of course Antibes. An entire day was spent in Monaco where we were lucky enough to see the starting line of the Grand Prix track, Prince Albert’s castle (whilst he was home), a picturesque view of the surrounding sea from a vantage point at the very top of the Monaco Oceanographic Museum and after all that walking we somehow

mustered up the extra energy to do some shopping too. All the students learnt how to sail, but we were unfortunately not joined by our teachers. After a fantastic seaside week, we all climbed onto the bus for a 10 hour journey to Paris. Once in Paris things could only get better. The first evening there was spent on a pleasant boat ride up the Seine River which began at the foot of the Eiffel Tower which was brilliantly lit up as it is every night. During our 3 day stay in Paris we visited the breath-taking palace of Versailles, laced with its intricately detailed gold leaf trimming, le Pantheon, a stunning archaic church and even had lunch at the Hard Rock Café. Not surprisingly, we visited the Eiffel Tower (during the day) and ventured all the way to the top to take in the magnificent view. And last, but definitely not least, we spent an entire day at Disneyland, which everyone enjoyed very much. This exciting day was our last full day spent in France and after an unforgettable 10 days, we packed our bags and headed home.

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Wall and Check- point Charlie. The next stop was Krakow in Poland where we visited the infamous concentration camps –Auschwitz and Birkenau. This was an emotional experience. Then we moved forth to the beautiful city of Prague. The group was fortunate enough to see the cathedral and castle at night. A visit to an open cast coal mine in the Sudetenland was most informative about the resources which Hitler had his eye on and obtained. There was some excitement on the return journey as our flight from Prague to Paris was delayed and air France had to hold the flight to Johannesburg until we arrived! We came back exhausted and planning to sleep and sleep! However, it was a very good trip.

After a year of much planning and administration, 42 students and 4 teachers left on Sunday, 11th April on a History tour of Europe. The group visited Ypres in Belgium, Paris, Berlin, Krakow in Poland and Prague in the Czech Republic. Different guides explained the many complexities in history helping clarify areas of concern in our syllabus. In Ypres, the guide explained how children as young as 15 fought and died in the Great War. It was quite interesting to see preserved war trenches and get an in depth appreciation of the difficulties of warfare. The highlights in Paris included going up the Eiffel Tower, Euro Disney and the magnificent palace of Versailles. From there, the group flew to Berlin where the main focus was the Berlin

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History Tour to Belgium, France, Poland and the Czech Republic

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The 8th International Junior Science Olympiad The Zimbabwe team to IJSO 2011 in Durban consisted of nine Form 3 pupils of which four were boys from SJC. (Panashe Bera, Abishek Patel, Paul Lee and Thobile Mawerera) The team members met in the SJC labs 3 to 4 times a week for a period of 4 months for an intensive crash course (Physics, Chemistry and Biology) designed to bring them up to the ‘A’ level standard required by the Olympiad examiners. The excitement of our young ‘nerds’ reveling in the challenges was an inspiration to the three team leaders. Hard mental efforts are as satisfying as playing 1st XV rugby and, in the final analysis,

more rewarding. Our kids survived the three by 3 hour examinations and enjoyed the company of the 260 youngsters representing 40 countries from all over the Globe. We were very pleased with the three bronze medals won by Kathy Brooke and Richard Stack from Hellenic and by Emma Grotto from Chisipite. Our Zimbabwe team did us proud being placed 20th out of 40, beating countries like Ireland, Australia and Nigeria. The main benefits to our kids lie in their experiences at IJSO, their broader horizons and in the considerable boost to their ‘IGCSE’ and ‘A’ level work and results.

Johan Muller Zimbabwe IJSO Leader 2005-2011

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From Chinyika School the boys went to a rural homestead. They had to experience life at a rural home. This was a follow up to a lesson they had done on household utensils. The boys saw various utensils and how they were used. They were later treated to roasted peanuts and boiled sweet potatoes which they enjoyed a lot. We later on went to the Chiefs court- [dare] .The boys got information on how disputes are settled at a rural court. The boys certainly enjoyed their trip and learnt a lot about the Shona culture.

Every year in June Form 2s go to a rural school and a rural village to get firsthand experience of the Shona culture. This year the boys went to Chinyika School in Goromonzi. When we arrived at Chinyika School the boys were paired with children at that school and had to interact in Shona. The boys had a tour of the school and most of them really appreciated how fortunate they were to have small classes whereas their counterparts had a teacher pupil ratio of 1:85. They also appreciated the fact they are all driven to school by their parents whereas some of their friends have to walk over 16 km to school.

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Shona Expedition : Field trip to Chinyika

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Shona Outreach Programme Trip to Ambuya Nehanda Foundation Ambuya Nehanda was founded in 1980 but only begun to be a children’s home in 1997. This was used as a place to stay and work. The first intake took 15 boys and girls in. Currently there are 60 boys and girls who are students there. There are now fifteen members of staff who work all day, seven days a week. Trip When we were on our way to Ambuya Nehanda many were excited and looking forward to the trip. We were welcomed warmly by the students. We were then taken round the girl’s dormitory which touched many people’s hearts as

they realized how well they lived. We then went onto the boy’s dorms which were similar to the girl’s. The one room was filled with amazing art in which a grade 5 painted. The students then showed us around the rest of the school including the pig pen. The students performed to us by playing the marimba. We handed out gifts. Later on in the morning we played soccer against their team. We then moved over back to the bus. I really appreciate what I have and to see how others lived touched my heart too. Many thanks must go to SaChirewa, Mai Chirewa and VaChitando for giving up their time to take us.

Ryan Murray, 1E

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very tough and can take anywhere from six to nine hours to reach the top. The air is very thin and breathing is tough. Visibility is not great as it is so dark. You summit at this time so that you cannot see the steepness of the mountain. Our group faced many challenges on the way up. At times there were moments when some of us wanted to give up, but the thought of concurring Africa’s highest peak kept us going. When we reached Gilman’s point, which is the first peak on the mountain, we were all very proud of each other and ready to go all the way to the main peak, Uhuru Peak. We finally reached to the top of the highest freestanding mountain in the world, at around 8:30 AM. This was definitely one of the most challenging experiences we all had taken on, but reaching the top made it all worth it. It is well worth going through this experience as we all felt that it taught us some valuable lessons in life. It taught us to appreciate smaller things in life such as a bath, because as you can imagine, not bathing for a week is not very pleasant! Most importantly it taught us that in life if you want something bad enough and put your mind to it, you can do it!

Our trip to Kilimanjaro began in Moshi, Tanzania. This is a small town about three hours away from the main gate to enter the mountain. There were six of us in our party, witch included two St John’s boys, a St Gorges boy, a Chisipite girl, and two parents. We left our hotel and made our way to the main gate for park registration. Once all our formalities were complete, we got back onto the bus and traveled a further two hours to the gate from which we departed from. This was called the Rongai gate and is one of six gates and routes to climb up Africa’s highest peak. The trip was six nights and seven days on the route we decided to take. As the trip progressed we went through all different types of vegetation and climates. During the course of the climb, we passed through five different types of vegetation. Lower down, we went through firstly bushland, then rainforest and heath. As we started to get higher, and above the clouds we went through the alpine desert and Artic vegetation. The summit day starts at midnight, when temperatures are below freezing when you are ascending. The hike up to the summit is a slow and challenging one. Summit day is normally

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lessons instructed us in articulation, posture, tone, expression and emotion; values that we will hold on to dearly. “Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they are a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks” It has been an honour to learn, teach and lead the Drama Club alongside Mrs van der Merwe. I hope the club will continue grow and even see the reestablishment of inter house Drama in the coming years. Best of luck to next year’s head.

Bill Masuku

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2011 has been a great year for the Drama Club, seeing many new additions from form one through to upper six and the successful staging of a senior Fallout, and junior play The Pied Piper, performed at the beginning and end of the year respectively. Both scripts were old but under the vision and direction of Mrs van der Merwe came alive through music and modern dialogue. The Drama Club teaches us not only to act but, also how best we can ‘be’ and that is what we strive for as students of the College, “To be the best that he or she can be.” Our

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C Gumbo, S Lilford, H Danes J Mushunje, D Spencer, M Wazara, M Lake, B Chinara

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Performing Arts Back A Rusakaniko T Zireva T Tande I Jooma J Donohoe S Lilford B Chihota T Parirenyatwa T Mbudzi M Wazara D Spencer T Chingwenya D Mushiri N Khaminwa D Shah A Mulambo Second Row L Van Zuydam S Curle C Chilowa S Purcell-Gilpin L Ballantyne B Pasipanodya Mrs A Van Der Merwe M Chirinda K Mutembwa M Woodhouse R Moyo C Cross B Masuku Front A Sithole M Karimshah B Molife C Chirara R Tsapayi T Makamwe

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Visual Art The Art Department has had a very exciting and productive year! The Art Campus Day began with a field trip to The Lucky Bean Art Gallery at Doone Estate and Chapungu Shona Sculpture Garden. While there, the students were given the opportunity to interview the artists and discuss processes and techniques while sketching and planning for their own art works. This led to some very interesting art pieces of their own. The annual Art Exhibition opening was held on 26th of July and was, as usual a huge success due to all the efforts of the students and teachers. The Exhibition showcased art influenced by different cultures and genres. All age groups

from Form one to Upper sixth were involved. The interesting conceptual work produced by the IB students is always thought provoking and unusual. The seniors at the College have also begun fundraising for the very exciting Art Tour to Spain and Turkey that is planned for April next year. The Chocolate Thursdays have been enjoyed by all, especially the teachers! The colourful civvies day, with juniors wearing warm colours and seniors wearing cool colours was a hit with the students. This will be the first time in many years that St. Johns has had an Art Tour and all involved are excited to expand their horizons and become more culturally aware.

Miss J Long Art Club

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T. Mutizwa, D. De Jong, R. Wilson, J. Lamy, R. Easterbrook, N. Bird, S. Crouse, B. Marriott, C. O’Riordan, D. Hofmann, T. Parirenyatwa H. Danes, L. Dube, J. Mushunje, Mrs B. Vidovic, M. Goss, M. Chirinda, M. Wazara, M. Hulbert

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Bridge Bridge Club 2011 was a good year, with the senior club team players being ably supported by a very promising junior side. We were fortunate to have four senior pairs and two junior pairs available for most matches. Each term throughout the year, the school team participated in Bridge matches against Peter House Boys, Peter House Girls, Prince Edward, Chisipite High, Convent and Arundel. While team wins were on the minimal side, there were amazing performances from some of the partnerships. Much was learned from each match, and such experience is invaluable for rising to the next challenge. In the Mashonaland Pairs tournament, hosted at Prince Edward in March, our top pairs, Sameet Naik (Captain) with Dilan Vyas, and Kishan Desai with Nandish Shukla, were placed 14th and 18th out of the 44 pairs that took part. The St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team players participated in the Inter-schools Tournament in June, which also saw

Hillcrest from Mutare join the challenge, however, this year, Prince Edward were the final victors. Enthusiasm for this sport seemed to get a boost this year with twelve new senior members joining the club in the third term, as well as having occasional spectators support home matches. In the final term, Miss Seaman resigned as Junior Coach. I would like to thank her for her efforts and input towards the success of the junior side. Here, the seniors members stepped in to assist with coaching the juniors for the remainder of the term, and particular thanks are due to Nandish Shukla and Dilan Vyas who made time to come to the practices to enlighten and encourage the new members. It was wonderful to see so many young people participating in the main annual events, and a joy to realise that this challenging sport will continue to attract determined and brave young minds. My best wishes to the Bridge Team of 2012.

Mrs. L Hopkins Bridge Team

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P. Naik, R. Vyas, M. Ismail, J. Mahofa, D. Patel, K. Patel, F. Adam, J. Mehta S. Chhiba, F. Brooke, W. Zhai, S. Naik, Mrs L. Hopkins, K. Desai, N. Shukla, D. Vyas

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Batanai Chimuka Captain

College vs Dominican Convent College vs Eaglesvale College vs Girls High College vs Goromonzi High College vs Arundel College vs St Ignatius

this season. The future of the club is definitely secure! The team’s overall performance in the Schools Barclays Chess league has been excellent. We won most of the games we played and we are expecting to be promoted from Division 3 to Division 2 at the end of this season. On behalf of the club I would like to thank Mr J. Musiwa, and Mrs. S. Ndhlovu, the teachers in charge of the chess club. The club has been exceptional under their guidance and going forward I have no doubt that the club will only grow stronger and get better. To the rest of the club members I would like to wish you the best for the 2012 season and guys remember ‘chess is not for timid souls’

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Bobby Fischer once said ‘chess is life’. I couldn’t agree with him more for this year my life and that of other members has been chess all the way. This year has been another successful year for the chess club. Once again this year we hosted the Annual St. John’s Chess Festival, in which over 20 schools attended, including some of the country’s top chess playing schools. Although the competition was tough, the senior team managed 6th place out of 24 teams and the junior team managed 3rd place out of 11 teams The club has also seen the emergence of very promising young players like Duan He and Nyashadzashe Dube. These boys are fast learning the game and they posted some very good results

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T. Mugova, M. Zographos, E. Nyambayo, A. Mohammed, D. He S. Raja, T. Matambanadzo, P. Patel, B. Chimuka (Captain), Mr J. Musiwa, D. Mushiri, D. Patel, S. Raja

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First Aid 2011 was a successful year for the First Aid club. It has been a pleasure to have such a supportive senior group supporting me right through the year in the everyday running of the club. We had a number of competent new members joining the club in the first term, and have become valuable assets to the club. I hope and wish these new members will continue participate in First Aid right through their school career. We have experienced a busy year as in the past, and have seen an increase in sporting events. Our busiest term is traditionally the second term,

whereby we dealt with a number of injuries. We as a team were able to maintain a presence at all sporting fixtures and we had the pleasure of having qualified Ambulance Personnel present at every fixture. I feel our first aiders gained valuable experience from their presence, and learnt a lot regarding sports injuries. It has been an honour and a privilege to be a part of the First Aid Club and particularly to lead it. I wish all members all the best next year and hope that all would have benefitted from their time in the club. I wish next yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s captain all the best in leading the club. Good luck.

Barry-John Deale Captain 2011

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S. Joosab, D. Pascoe, J. Matangi, D. Marshall, R. Easterbrook, B. Rajput, S. Jardine, M. Visser S. Joosab, T. Roeloffze, B. Deale (Captain), Mr A. Williams, Sister Eanna, D. Mushiri (Vice Captain), T. Sibanda, S. Robertson

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Muneni Chirinda President Debating Society

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an impressive season for a group of newcomers into the debating arena facing opponents Chisipite and Peterhouse throughout the year. The Senior Society also had a satisfactory season as new talent and speakers were born and it participated in the Tinashe Rwodzi Invitational and hosted the CBZ invitational tournament in which it came a close second. Special mention must be made of the support that CBZ has continued to give the society and it’s the society will forever be indebted to the CBZ for its efforts in heightening the culture at the College. The year has proved to be the stepping stone in terms of the standards of debate at the College and the foundation of success on which to build on has been laid. This year serves as a hallmark year in the History of the Society that will see it raised to new heights because Our future depends on what we do in the present. Mahatma Gandhi

This year has seen the Debate society grow from a mere club within the College’s vast cultural activity into a society of young ladies and gentlemen with a goal that surpasses that of merely exchanging ideas argumentatively on current and controversial topics. Debating at St. John’s College has become a learning experience that allows a group of students to grow as individuals and realize their true self, an experience that sees them becoming true gentlemen and ladies of substance. Sir William Temple said ‘The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one’s own opinions, and value others that deserve it.” That was been our objective this year and I believe we have seen that objective become a reality. The society was made up of 20 senior members ranging from form 4 to upper 6 and 12 junior members all in form 1. The Junior Society had

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R. Karimishah, R. Tsapayi, D.Shah, K. Lane, T.Mugova, F. Wilkingson, P. Machekera, M. Woodhouse, A. Chikanda, A. Sithole, L. Mwamuka. V. Perreira, M. Wazara, A. Chivayo, Mr J. Chitando, M. Chirinda (President), P.Webster, J.Mushunje, C.Chigumira B. Chinhara, T. Zengeni , G. Jaravaza

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Dancesport Congratulations go to the competitors from 2011 and we hope to see more dancers joining the St Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Team next year. Dancesport Team

The year 2011 has been a successful year all round for DanceSport in the college. At the National Championships, held at Twin Rivers School, some of our dancers were awarded Full National DanceSport Colours, namely, Peter Webster (U6), Leslie Jellicoe (F4) and his partner, Nerine Worsley (L6IB). The Interschools Competition was a great evening again this year in which the college was placed second to St Georges College. Overall there were 6 competitions held this year, and our couples competed in the majority of these, obtaining high results in their respective categories.

Peter Webster U6 Nerine Worsley L6IB Leila van Zuydam L6IB Kylie Keen (joined recently) L6IB Leslie Jellicoe F4 Michael Jellicoe F2 Peter Webster, Captain

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fame. Tafadzwa Mugova was the runner up in this category. With seven entrants in the Senior Category, the judges were hard pressed to make their decision from amongst the very high quality speakers. Daniel Spencer brought the house down with a review of his years at the College and was declared the winner, with our Headboy Victor Muchatuta coming in a respectable and close second with his musings on “Life”. Megan Woodhouse and Daniel Spencer went on to represent the school at the Harare Interschools Semi Finals, where they were the winners of their respective age groups. At the Harare Schools Finals, Megan came first in her category and Daniel second in his, and Megan went on to achieve a creditable third in the National Public Speaking Finals. Many congratulations to these two, who have done themselves and their school proud. We look forward to encouraging younger members of the College to develop and enhance their public speaking skills in future.

Mrs. P Sylvester

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The 25th anniversary Public Speaking competition held at St John’s College in March was undoubtedly one of best ever held in the school’s history. With a strong showing in the Junior and Intermediate categories, there was also an unusually high standard amongst the Seniors, who included some Upper 6th pupils who have been in every final since they came to St John’s! Chief Adjudicator Mrs Rolyn Mukudu, from Eaglesvale School, was impressed with the variety of topics and their presentation by the contestants in front of an attentive and responsive audience. Speakers’ subjects ranged from “Poverty” and “Spud: the Movie” to “Corruption” and a focus on “The Beautiful Game” in the intermediates. The seniors generally offered more philosophical speeches, concerning life, the future and perspiration! Winner of the Junior Category was Andile Sithole, a Form 1, and runner up was Tino Majero. For the fourth year in a row, Thomas Chadwick won his section with a thought-provoking speech on how one might achieve “Fifteen Minutes” of

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T. Chadwick, D. Spencer, Mrs P. Sylvester, M. Woodhouse, A. Sithole

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Interact As the Interact President of 2011, I had the opportunity to tackle different challenges this year and execute a number of events. These tasks were made easier by the amazing team that was the Interact Society of 2011. This year the college was privileged to be graced by the thinking power of two forces, as a result of the introduction of a second Interact group, known as the IAS. This is testament to the desire of St John’s pupils to serve their community. As the years go by, I see the Interact Society of St John’s becoming a force to be reckoned with. This year saw the annual Valentine’s Day roses handed out to eagerly awaiting pupils of the college. The day was a great success because of the behind the scenes work that was done by the entire society. In March we hosted a group of young orphans at the College and entertained them with an Easter Egg

Interact One Back D. Hoffman, D. Bell, R. Sachak, W. Chitekuteku, M. Chirinda, V. Muchatuta, H. Crous, M. Wright, T. Bandason, A. Breitenstein, M. Barr, C. Taylor, K. Wood, J. Byrom

Raphael Chambati, President Interact One

Front A. Zvinavashe, J. Crowley, R. Moyo, P. Jeans, A. Machado (Vice-President), Mrs W. Taylor, R. Chambati (President), R. Naik, K-A Robinson, J. Forrester, P. Bryant, H. Danes

Interact Two Back D. Mushiri, A. Perlman, M. Hulbert, T. Tapera, W. Zhai, M. Lake, J. Vidovic, G. du Plessis,T. Hill,M. Mapeka, N. Chimbetete, T. Sibanda

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Hunt. The year continued on successful note with the ever popular Soccer Day, the Prefects auction and a first ever tag rugby day, which was dedicated to the late Dylan McKinnon. I am thankful for the team that I was blessed to work with; selfless and fully dedicated to the society. As a society we managed to raise a large sum of money from the events that we hosted. This money will be donated to various worthy causes. The year was without a doubt, amazing. My gratitude goes to Mrs. W Taylor, who is the backbone of the Interact Society. She was the strength and the guidance behind us. Although she departs the college at the end of this year, her contribution to the society will never be forgotten. It has been an honour to lead the Interact Society and be your president for 2011. My best wishes to the society of 2012.

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Being named the President of this society was the most educating, rewarding experience of my life. I could not have asked for a better set of gentleman to accompany me on this journey and I truly wish all of them the best for their future endeavours. As my brother, Reggie, was the President of this society in 2007, it meant the world to me that I could follow in his footsteps and lead the Society to reach, what I believed to be great heights in 2011.

A special mention must go to the hard, disciplined work of Mr. Muchatuta, whose dedication to the society as Secretary was greatly appreciated. I will forever remember the memories this privilege bestowed upon me and will take the great principles and lessons a Toastmaster possesses into the world. It has been an honour gentlemen: ‘Once a Toastmaster, always a Toastmaster’.

Preston Bryant

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L. Teede, R.Robbie, R. Naik, R. Chambati, L. Mwamuka, G. Lindsay, S. Chisholm, O. Chadwick, S. Zaverdinos A. Wilkinson, W. Seremani, V. Muchatuta, Mrs W. Taylor, P. Bryant (President), R. Lioga, J. Forrester

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Music Department 2011 has seen some interesting and productive developments in the music department. All sections have continued to strengthen their foundations and the proof of the pudding has been in the performances as you well see in the individual report. The pipe band goes from strength to strength local and in international competition, under the skilful leadership of Mr. J. Kalonga and Mr E. Mabodo. They remain the pride and joy of the college appear at numerous sporting and cultural events in the college and being invited to prestigious events in the city as well as giving into the community by playing at weddings and funerals. Marimbas are shining in the Eisteddfod and in school events. They are flourished under the new leadership of Mr T. Mukarati and the new flavour of his unique style is a joy to see. The up and coming juniors show great promise and enthusiasm. My pleasure in these groups is only doubled by the high standard and excellent progress of the soloist who have willingly and successfully stretched themselves in different genre of singing. Special mention to Richard Welch who continued in his happy zone of rock both in leadership and

performance but ventured into classical Eisteddfod work and Broadway musical, Rahil Naik who took on a little Jazz and Luke Ballantyne who excelled in his classical singing, musicals and extended his charm in acting. The world is your oyster young men and women those of you leaving find a place to continue to express your gift and those remaining reach out for more and take every advantage for development that you can in your final years. My special thanks to the Mrs C. De Jong and the PLC for their assistance in purchase of wonderful sound and lighting equipment for the music and drama departments, their support and backing will benefit these students and those to come considerably. Once again I am indebted and grateful to Mrs. F Naik for her unfailing support and tireless work in the music department. Her investment has benefitted the current students and leaves a legacy for the coming ones. To my staff as I leave this department I can only say many, many thanks for the music, fun, hard work and support your have given and I wish you every success in the coming year with Mr. Mukarati taking you and the department into a new fresh era.

Linda Frampton Music Prefects

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S. Hill, S. Foulkes, C. Boardman, M. Harrison, S. Zimuto, N. Mangiza N. Chakanetsa, A. Breytenbach, M. Chirinda, R. Naik, R. Welsh

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Senior Choir

Nyasha Chakanetsa Head of Choirs Back R. Chambati, L. Mwamuka, T. Mbudzi, S. Zimuto, M. Chirinda, M. Trew, A. Breytenbach Middle K. Stijkel, L. Machiri, K. Furusa, E. Smet, F. Brooke, N. Chimbetete, N. Mangiza, N. Chakanetsa, B. Pasapanodya, A. Ashburner, G. Kabeya, L. Ballentyne, R. Naik, A. Mahmed, S. Mpofu, L. Dube, C. Mavhima Front B. Masuku, T. Mawera, P. Gumbo, N. Madziva, J. Cardoza, J. White , T. Sibanda, R. Van Hooreweghe, B. Chihota, T. Mugova, L. Jellicoe, T. Mombemuriwa, C. Chigumira, T. Tapera, W. Zhai Absent D. Ettrick

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2011 has been one of the most event filled year for the St John’s College Senior Choir. In the beginning we faced the challenge of losing a lot of members of the choir however that did not stop the choir from learning new pieces and enjoying the term. Unfortunately we could not participate in Eisteddfod this year. Third term we had the pleasure of working with Backstage, a dance academy in All that Jazz. This was a concert that the choir sang songs like When you Believe and the catchy number from Grease, You’re the one that I want. As a lot of choir members found a hidden passion for not only musicals but for dancing as well. There was no time to rest as soon after we were back in rehearsals preparing for combined School that took place on the 22nd of September 2011. The Carol concert will take place in November. A good way to end the year, with a smile, energy and enthusiasm for singing. Which brings about a promising year for next year.

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Junior Choir As we said good bye to the form two’s of 2010, we welcomed the new, talented, energetic form ones of 2011. With the choir’s eagerness to learn Mr Mukarati taught them songs where they not only preformed at concerts like All that Jazz but also Eistedford where they attained… grade. As their voices filled the hall, not only did their talent grow but their passion for music.

Nyasha Chakanetsa Head of Choirs

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S. Li, B. Molife, M. Wazara, R. Tsapayi, M. Masango, N. Mangiza, Mr. T Mukarati, N. Chakanetsa, J. Matangi, J. Nyabadza, P. Chikwanha, E. Nyambayo, T. Gumbo, N. Moyo, A. Nyamuda, K. van Ruiten, K. Mubayiwa, A. Sithole Front

M. Mpisaunga, A. Chikanda, T. Chambati, T. Vinyu, M. Al Khalil, T. Makamure, R. Tavaguta, R. Sibanda, K. Mutendadzamera, L. Mwamuka, T. Masenda, T. Fundira, T. Makamure, B. Hlatshwayo, S. Tapera, K. Singano, M. Jellicoe

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At the beginning of the year, in one of the small rooms in the music center Voices in Harmony was born. It all started off with a small group of four eager singers, but as the months progressed our group grew to nine with not only sixth formers but students from lower forms as well. We sang beautiful arrangements of such songs as Time after time and You are there, presenting these at various

concerts and even entering the Eisteddfod, where we achieved a First Plus grade. As our voices filled the room, so may the sound of Voices In Harmony echo through the halls of the College and in the hearts of many for years to come!

Nyasha Chakanetsa

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A. Mahmed, A. Ashburner, N. Chimbetete, A. Sithole E. Sikala, C. Norris, N. Chakanetsa, M. T. Mukarati, L. Ballantyne, B. Masuku, T. Sibanda

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Over the course of first term, the bands department took part in a number of activities within most of its sub sections.

Senior Electric Band

The senior electric band took part in both the school production and Eisteddfods, adding 6 new songs to our playlist. These include: 1. Cliffs of Dover – Eric Johnson 2. You’ll Never Change Me – self composed 3. Don’t Worry – Bob Marley 4. Another Brick in the Wall – Pink Floyd 5. They Don’t Care About Us – Michael Jackson 6. California Dreaming – The Mamas and Papas

We obtained a 2nd grade & 1st grade at Eisteddfods. This term we plan on composing two of our own songs. The first will be done with Libalele Mwamuka and the second will be a mixed number with the pipe band major, Shaun Foulkes. Simon Robertson’s band spent last term having lessons with Evicted and will continue to do so this term. So far, they have added 3 new songs to their playlist.

Junior Band

Antony Kiampi’s band did not do much in the way of learning new songs last term. As the heads, we decided to spend more time trying to better their techniques. This term, they are learning ‘In The End’ by Linkin Park and may be gaining an additional member who will play the keyboard. Sander Post’s band learnt 2 Songs last term and is now starting to look for a lead singer. This term, they are learning ‘Holiday’ by Green Day and are trying out various singers. This group seems to be the most promising.

Willie’s band has not been easy to coach. They all still have a lot of maturing to do. Last term they started to learn ‘Beverly Hills’ by Weezer, but they still haven’t managed to perfect it due to lack of practice and concentration. Dale Hansen has decided to no longer play in this band and is now solely a part of Sander’s band.

Guitar Club

Mr Mabodo takes guitar club, so he can probably tell you more about it than I. However, every week there has been an enthusiastic group of juniors waiting for guitar club to start. The number of students walking the school corridors with an instrument in their bags has increased which is very pleasing. Advanced guitar seems to have been welcomed by the school. Last term I had the privilege of teaching a very talented group of musicians, giving them advice on how to play different riffs and perfecting their technique. However, due to a clash with art club on Mondays this term, we haven’t had the maximum number attending. I have made an effort to change advanced guitar’s club meeting to a Thursday.

Drum Club

Again, Mr Mabodo takes this club, but as far as I can see and hear, there seems to be some good little drummers coming through.

Individual

Within this section the students attained the following at Eisteddfod: 1. B. Masekesa – Honours for drum solo 2. D. Sheehan – First Grade for drum solo 3. V. Pereira – First Grade for piano solo

Richard Welsh Senior Electric Band

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Shingirai Zimuto Head of Ethnomusicology Marimba Band

Back M. Tutani N. Chimbetete N. Tutani T. Mugova Front W. Chitekuteku T. Washaya Mr. T. Mukarati S. Zimuto A. Chivayo

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Concert, the Senior Marimba Band participated in a very entertaining performance with musicians from no fewer than 9 schools from in and around Harare, performing renditions of the popular songs “Manhanga” and “Dzikamiso” The year as a whole was centred mainly on the formation of a “marimba family” among the players, with the advanced marimba band having attended a camp at the end of last year. Dexterity sessions helped us immensely with our playing abilities as well as the occasional performance session discussions of possible showcase-worthy performances. These were especially good in that every member was heard and participated in every exercise because being comfortable with each other makes for better relationships within the band. Special mention to the Form 2 band which was our Intermediate Marimba Band and shows great promise as the future of ethnomusicology is set to take off at SJC. They have already been involved in several performances including one at the 2011 Spring Fair and one in the school production “All That Jazz” and will hopefully carry on in this light. It is my hope that in the coming years the Ethnomusicology section of the music department will continue to create young vibrant performers who are eager to learn and will be able to proudly represent their school in all disciplines.

2011 was once again an extremely successful year beginning with the Eisteddfod Festival which saw both the Senior and Junior bands receive 1st grades for their performances in the Marimba Ensemble – Advanced and Intermediate Categories respectively, both of which had very stiff competition. Solo, duet and trio performances had a little less pressure than the ensembles, but due to our expectations as a school to do well, we had to perform well. Entered in the competition were four duet performances, three solo performances and two trio performances, all in the advanced section. Our results were of a very high standard with Mandla Tutani, Nkosana Tutani and Tafadzwa Mugova earning an Honours Grade in the Advanced Trio Section and Tawanda Washaya receiving an honours grade in the Advanced Solo section, with a very captivating performance. From early on in the year the Marimba Ensembles practiced, with the help of our teacher Mr T. Mukarati, for performances at different events including several weddings and product launches giving our band exposure to the professional entertainer’s world. One of the main highlights of the year was the St John’s College 25th Anniversary Commemorative Banquet held at Wild Geese Lodge, at which we had the honour of playing for invited guests. In yet another successful Combined Schools

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Pipe Band This year has seen the band grow and reach higher heights, no exception in its history of excellence. The first term started with the recording of a CD to help raise funds and show people our capabilities as musicians. After a couple of hard sessions we came out with some tunes of extremely high quality, and the CD was released later in the second term. The contribution from Mr and Mrs Post was much appreciated as they let us use their recording studio and produced the CD. Next on the calendar was the Eisteddfod, and although the adjudicator was said to be extremely strict, the band performed at a high standard, and in total we won 10 honours, including for both the senior and junior bands. Our next challenge was the tour to Durban to compete in the Amanzimtoti Gathering, with Mr Squire accompanying us as band master. All members of the touring band must be commended for their dedication and hard work during the holidays as we prepared, and this definitely showed in our performances. Our performance

in the March selection was especially strong, and we were graded highly by some judges in some of the categories, including one first in piping and bass section. Despite this, the band was placed third overall, but one high point of this tour was placing first in drill dress and discipline, which I think reflects well on how we carried ourselves throughout the competition. The results from the solo competition the next day were encouraging, as Taashira Chikosi won the Novice drumming, and Stangroom and Whittaker placed 1st and 2nd respectively in the Junior MSR. Another encouraging result was Chris Boardman and I placing 4th and 3rd in the Open MSR, and excellent results as we competed against some very experienced pipers. All those who competed in the solo competition played with determination, and the tour would not have been such a success without everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard work. Thanks must go to Mr Squire for accompanying the band as tour master, as he kept everything in order.

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J. Foulkes, R. Scott-Riddell, D. Kassim, T. Chikosi, P. Chiketsani, T. Mbizi, S. Ross, G. Stangroom, G. Ellis, S. Post, D. Whitaker, C. Blignaut N. Khaminwa (Pipe Corporal), D. Stangroom (Drum Sergeant), T. Tapera (Drum Instructor), Mr E. Mabodo (Band Master), Mr A. Squire (Pipe Instructor), Mr J. Kalonga (Pipe Major), S. Foulkes (Pipe Sergeant), C. Boardman, J. Whitaker, J. White

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and Chairman Mr Stangroom and all the dedicated parents who help push the band towards its goals. The number of hours you have spent helping the band, with organising tours, raising funds selling Irish coffees, or just encouraging your children when they practice at home in spite of all the noise they may make. Again thanks to Mr Squire for being our Tour Master and helping everything run smoothly for the last 3 years. To all the members of the St John’s College Pipe Band, it truly has been an honour to have led such an excellently talented group of individuals. I am sure that you will do the College proud next year, lead by two very competent Majors. Last, but certainty not least, Mr Kalonga and Mr Mabodo has been such an inspiration since they first started at the band. Their dedication to every member has been above and beyond what has been asked of them and I thank them for all their help over the past year.

Shaun Foulkes, Pipe Major Junior Pipe Band

The second term was our busiest as usual, as we played at various rugby and hockey compulsories, while parents served the now famous Irish coffees at every single game. The money they raised through this is invaluable to the band’s development and all those who contributed should know that we truly appreciate all the time they spent doing this. We managed to end the year off with a big bang, with two incredible performances. The first was at the combined schools concert; the crowd loved our set, and technically it was one of the best performances I’ve ever been part of. The other was at the Spring Fair. Although we only played once, we really made it count and impressed a lot of people. To all the members who have been a part of this term, your commitment to this band is above what we have ever asked you, and your enthusiasm has been without bounds, even when we were overloaded with performances. There are a number of people I’d like to thank today. To our tireless pipe band committee,

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D. Pascoe, M. Al Khalil, M. Van Hooreweghe, S. Brown, T. Pieterse, D. He, D. Vidovic, E. Rothwell, D. Gore dema, P. Warhurst, Seth Jardine, R. Tavaguta

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J. Webb, T. Chikosi, R. Scott-Riddell (Pipe Instructor), Mr J. Kalonga, C. Blignaut (Drum Instructor), Mr E. Mabodo, D. Whitaker, T. Mbizi, S. Post, F. Bescotti

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The desire to find out more and know more, to enable us to compete in the 21st Century, has encouraged interest in Quizzes and with this has come a growth in the number of schools in and around Harare which now have a Quiz Club and who are now prepared to host an Inter-Schools’ Competition. This is a most encouraging development as it has inspired many to show interest and to seek inclusion in the Quiz team. Because of the number of schools now participating, it is not possible to enter more than one team in a competition and so, inevitably, some who would like to participate can attend only as spectators. Everyone, however, learns something and each builds on his store of General Knowledge. ‘The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.’ wrote the British writer, Laurence Sterne. Interest in Quiz competitions has grown at the College too and this year we have been able to participate in a number of Quizzes throughout the year. The fortunes of the Junior and Senior teams have varied, success often depending on the emphasis of the questions. Our team has excelled in the Mathematics and Science categories; our knowledge of Africa and her affairs could be better! Where questions have been broad and balanced our teams have done well and we managed to win the competition held at Ellis Robins. Our visits to Peterhouse Girls’, Convent, Heritage, Chisipite, Arundel and St. John’s, Emerald Hill were rewarding, challenging and enjoyable. Most quizzes follow a format of categories covering English Language and Literature, History and Geography, Mathematics,

Science and Technology, Sports and Recreation, Zimbabwe and Africa, Current Affairs and General Knowledge. We competed with Chisipite girls in two fun Quizzes, where the categories were different. These proved most popular and entertaining, if not wholly serious. The Inter-House Junior and Senior Quizzes again took place on the morning before the June half-term break and these proved fiercely competitive. In this, as in the other Quizzes we have hosted this year, some questions were accompanied by visual images which were projected on to a screen. Mrs Jessie van der Merwe, has played a vital role in this development and her skill in accessing suitable visual images and presenting them during the Quizzes has been greatly appreciated. This use of Technology has made Quizzes even more entertaining, especially for the spectators. Results of the Inter-House Quiz were as follows:

Chimanimani

Matopos

Vumba

Nyanga

A highlight of the year, in terms of Quizzes, was the 25th Anniversary St. John’s College/Ballantyne Spar Inter-Schools’ Quiz, this year held on Saturday 17th September. Holding the event on a Saturday meant that a greater number of schools were able to participate and it was made an even more special occasion because of the St John’s College 25th Anniversary celebrations. Members of the Pipe Band and players from the Marimba group entertained guests prior to the start of the Quiz and at Interval. Mr Mayr Rick of Ballantyne Spar once again provided generous prizes and trophies for the worthy winners with individuals and schools benefitting. Mr Richard Wilde, also organized sponsorship from CBZ Bank, in the form of cash prizes. Prizes were presented by Mr Mayr Rick and Mr Bill Annandale, the Headmaster. Ms Jackie Elliott, also of Spar, made a huge contribution to the success of the occasion with her assistance in the staging of the event,

‘Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.’ Peter F. Drucker (1909- 2005) American writer and management consultant.

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Quiz 2011 Results of this Quiz were as follows: and particularly with the splendid tea that was served to all, at Interval. Students from 19 schools participated, with over 150 participants attending and putting their knowledge to the test. Grateful thanks are due to all those who were involved in this event; it certainly will be remembered as a special occasion. I have no doubt that 2012 will see even further growth in interest in Quizzes and I encourage those of you who are looking for a Club to join, to consider the Quiz Club. As our dependable and knowledgeable Quizmaster, Mr Richard Wilde, moves on to impart his knowledge elsewhere, I would like to thank him, on behalf of all Quiz participants, for his support and encouragement. In the 17th Century the Spanish philosopher and writer stated that ‘True knowledge lies in knowing how to live’. May you all learn more and use that knowledge to know how to live.

Robyn Wilde

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Peterhouse Girls Oriel Boys Roosevelt

Eaglesvale

Tynwald High Oriel Girls Heritage

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B. Croukamp, T. Roeloffze, P. Patel, J. Whitaker, Z. Mayeka, T. Mugova, T.Tindwa, F. Zvinavashe P. Patel, C. Misiewicz, Mrs J. van der Merwe, Mrs R. Wilde, A. Zvinavashe (Captain), D. Ettrick, W. Zhai

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A brand-new “Ram” Committee in February produced a fresh, clean lay-out and, as is usual, a new approach. Editor, Megan Woodhouse, pseudonym “Woody”, led her team most ably, usually writing the “leader” or front page article. Leonardo Bescotti, her highly efficient and proactive sub-editor, left to take up a prestigious bursary overseas, but he was replaced by the reliable Kudzai Mukaratirwa. Technically gifted and hard-working Wentao Zhai was the “typesetter”. Malcolm Lake, alias “Maru”, was in charge of the Sports Page, producing lively and articulate write-ups on major College sporting events. He was loyally assisted by Caitlin Taylor

tirelessly typing sports results each week and filling any gaps. Also highly reliable were the rest of the Committee: Craig Mukasa, Mark Wright, Tendai Sibanda, David Franklin and Francis Wilkinson who were joined by James Agiotis in the third term. This year our cartoonist, with a rare talent in any school, was Jason Lamy. Producing the weekly College newspaper is one area of school life where the students are almost totally responsible and have scope for being creative and innovative. There is, moreover, much laughter and camaraderie amongst this small, select group of L6 students.

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D. Franklin, M. Wright, L. Wilkinson, J. Lamy, T. Sibanda W. Zhai, M. Lake, K. Mukaratirwa, Mrs L. Jack, M. Woodhouse (Editor), C. Mukasa, C. Taylo

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Library As has now become the norm in March the library celebrated World Book Day. This year we put a twist on the event by asking that all students bring a book suitable for Grades 1 to 7. As usual the response was amazing and over 800 books were received. These books have subsequently been donated to Thornicroft School in Ruwa which is where this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s L6IB group carried out their 25 hour project by refurbishing a store room into a library for the students. Again our main library fundraiser was a Tombola stall at the Spring Fair. This is the third

time we have taken part in the Fair and it has become very a popular stall. There were some really fantastic prizes donated this year and as a result I increased the ticket price which resulted in us raising over $1300.00, a worthwhile day indeed. Thank you to everybody that donated prizes and to everybody that came to the fair and tried to win a prize. Very special thanks to the 2011 Library Prefects who have worked so hard to keep the library operating and all the parents and students that have supported the library in 2011.

Mrs Rima Trew School Librarian

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B.Masuku, B.Chimuka S. Purcell-Gilpin, T. Machekanyanga, M. Goss, Mrs R Trew, M. Trew, E. Smet, B-J Deale.

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Front D. Ndendu N. Naik M. Mbudzi S. Mushauri Mme Fodouop T. Chadwick H. Jocelyne T. Kwaramba T. Tindwa

Back D. Nachipo N. Mukorombindo H. Menk M. Sylverster Z. Mayeka T. Gapare J. Burger B. Passaportis

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Model United Nations Society “Let us acknowledge and celebrate what youth can do to build a safer, more just world. Let us strengthen our efforts to include young people in policies, programmes and decision-making processes that benefit their futures and ours.”

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon message on International Youth Day, 12 August 2010

Model United Nations is a forum in which current issues and controversies, of extreme relevance and global importance, are debated and potential solutions for them created through lobbying and merging, writing of resolutions, debating and voting. These processes mirror the extreme formality and bureaucracy of the actual United Nations and its procedures. This year the College was invited to participate in the National ZIMUN V (Zimbabwe Model United Nations) conference hosted by the Harare International School at Rainbow

Towers. Such enthusiasm was generated by our participation in this two-day conference, that a Model United Nations Society was instituted for the first time at the College in the second term of this year. Over 60 students from Form 4, Lower and Upper 6, IB and A level, applied and participated in our weekly evening meetings! In the second term St John’s College hosted its own mini conference and then at the beginning of third term Chisipite Senior School reciprocated by hosting their own mini conference. These conferences offered an opportunity for our team of 20 delegates to gain valuable experience in preparation for their participation in the elite international JOMUN (Johannesburg Model United Nations) conference, hosted in Johannesburg, South Africa, early in October. Our team of delegates gave an excellent account of themselves and proved more than capable of standing up to the intense pressure, early mornings, late nights and endless research and preparation that is MUN.

Matthew Goss, Co-President Model United Nations Society

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E. Nyambayo, S.Ramajan, M. Goss, S. Lesche, K. Mukuratirwa, G.Du Plessis, J.Mallon, T. Tindwa, T. Mugova, T.Sibanda, T. Tapera, T. Matambanadzo, N.Bird, T. Mawerera. J. Mushunje, D. Spencer, F. Karimshah, T. Mbudzi, A. Zvinavashe, A. Machado, P. Webster, M. Chirinda, T. Mapani, C. Chigumira, F. Wilkinson, M. Mapeka, G. Misiewicz, A. Dixon, R. Mugabe, N. Samkange, M. Woodhouse, L. Van Zuydam, I. Jooma. T. Chingwena, K. Lane, P. Jeans, V. Periera, Mrs R. Trew, Mrs B. Vidovic, B. Pasipanodya, G. Jaravaza, K. Mutembwa, J. Vidovic, L. Dube, G. Kabeya

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out over three days, and although we had to cut one of the days short, the boys and girls competed with great passion and enthusiasm. What made it even better was that Chimanimani won it all…again. All of these triumphs would not have been possible without the tireless dedication of our coaches. Mr. Heuer, the head of athletics, was an invaluable mentor and friend to not just me but the whole athletics team. Mr. Milner and Mr. Odendaal worked with the sprinters and throwers respectively, and achieved the most points of all the disciplines. Mr. Elliot worked with the long distance runners and whipped them into shape with countless laps around the field. Mr. Pike once again added his knowledge and humour to the season, while getting the jumpers as far and high as possible. Lastly I must thank my vicecaptain Tashi Chitambira for his commitment and leadership throughout the season, as well as my fellow upper-sixes for their support throughout my school career.

This was a busy year for the College, celebrating its 25th anniversary. Each sport put in extra effort to make it special, and athletics was no different. St. John’s hosted the interschool’s athletics meeting and held it at the National Sports Stadium, which hadn’t been done since 2002! This was the proudest moment of my time at St. John’s College. It brought tears to my eyes watching my fellow students, in front of the entire school, compete in each discipline to the best of their abilities. Despite our best efforts, we came second to St. George’s but beat a talented Peterhouse team that had won it the previous year. It was an outstanding achievement. Throughout the season I have seen amazing effort and determination from every age-group. This was proved at the Lomagundi Co-ed Athletics Meeting. Their character and commitment led us to our first Interschools athletics victory in six years! Our Interhouse Athletics was also a big success, in spite of the rainy weather which threatened to spoil it. The disciplines were spread

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Athletics Back M. Mbudzi; R. Gona; T. Kwaramba; Z. Wazir; S. Matunhira; S. Coles; H. Reimer; M. Wright; Z. Ismail; R. Lindsay-White; B. Michell; T. Chinyani; G. Du Plessis; T. Mbudzi; T. Washaya; T. Chadwick; C. Sinclair; T. Tapera; T. Bandason; P. Gumbo Middle S. Ashburner; P. Bryant; J. Smallbones; K. Merrington; K. Lane; A. Odendaal (Coach); N. Elliot (coach); T. Chitambira (Vice-Captain); M. Eastwood (Captain); J. Heuer (coach); N. Milner (Coach); A. Breytenbach; S. Juru; C. Clarke; D. Goodey; M. Wazara; N. Mbiba Front D. Marshall; K. Muleya; S. Tapera; M. Landman; S. Bellini-Martin; K. Mubayiwa; T. Mahofa; K. Singano; M. Hart; A. Sithole; P. Wamala; M. Stavrou; M. Seremani; B. Fox; G. King; T. Mazhude; Z. Mayeka

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We won the Harare School League losing only 1 game in the first term to St Georges. In the return match at home we had a photo finish winning the league title by destroying our traditional rivals St Georges by 18 points in front of the whole school, parents and other stakeholders. The game was just amazing as team work was at its best. Having lost Ulrich Kontchou who was elbowed and had to be rushed to the hospital and Rufaro Lioga was on 4 fouls, Victor Muchatuta (16 points) and Rukudzo Gona (11 points) had a walk in the park destroying Saints. Power forward Jabu Dube was the top score of the game with 19 points assisted by Center Tino Mugabe who had 18 points. The two also dominated the game by out rebounding Saints. The captain, Alex Machado had a life time game as he was in charge of the ball and made perfect shots that made life difficult for Saints.

Tournaments At the beginning of the year we won the Harare International School U20 Tournament. However we lost to Prince Edward in the final to their P.E Annual Invitation Tournament. At the Watershed

U20 Invitational Tournament, we lost in the quarter final as we had a development team that was lacking a bit in experience at this level of the game.

St Johns 25th Anniversary Tournament After winning all our pool games we were unfortunate to lose to our rival St Georges in the final. The team was unlucky as Georges capitalized on our few mistakes and it cost us the gold medal. The boys worked hard to the build up to this tournament and had exiting games during the tournament of note the game against Gateway which we won by beating the buzzer. The support from the parents and the school was amazing this year and it made our game plans smooth as we were able to keep them following us home and away. Gratitude goes to all the coaches your contributions has made St John’s College league champions for 2011 season. Well done to all the boys for the 6 years we had together. We will miss you greatly.

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Players A. Machado (Cap), U. Kontchou (V/Cap), V. Muchatuta, J. Smallbones, A. Machado, R. Lioga, W. Seremani, T. Mugabe, S. Dube, P. Bryant, T. Washaya, T. Chingwena, T. Chinyani, T. Bandason, S. Matunhira, R. Gona, S. Mapeka, B. Moyo, T. Kwaramba T. Parirenyatwa

Assistant Coach, Eric Banda Technical Advisor, Mr. Machado Managers, W. Mukotsanjera, A. Sakala Back: Front:

U. Kontchou (Vice Captain), A. Machado (Captain), T. Washaya, T. Mugabe, S. Dube, V. Muchatuta. R. Lioga, T. Bandason, T. Chinyani, T. Chingwena, R. Gona, T. Kwaramba

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2nd Team Basketball This year’s 2nd team squad has been a very strong one. This, naturally, bodes well for the future of the sport at the College. Several members of the squad have already featured in College’s 1st team. It is, however, unfortunate that we have played only a

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Mr K. Muyedzwa S. Mushauri, T. Shara, C. Gumbo, M. Chitsinde, C. Chilowa, P. Machekera, T. Kasukuwere, D. Ndengu, B. Masekesa, T. Zireva, T. Mutizwa, B. Rajput, N. Hambira

few matches this whole year. One hopes that more schools will be able to schedule 2nd team fixtures in future. We have won all our matches this year save for the final one which we narrowly lost to St Georges College. This pleasing record has been as a result of the discipline and sheer determination of the team. It is hoped that a significant number of the members of this team will make it into the College’s 1st team next season. We would like to thank our coach for his time and expertise. Finally, we would like to wish next year’s team every success.

S. Mushauri U16A Basketball This year, the U16A basketball team has experienced many highs and lows. At the beginning of it all, we were a bunch of 15 year olds with untapped talent, yearning to make a mark on the court and did so, due to the phenomenal coaching expertise of Mr Sakala and Mr Rademeyer. They not only instilled within us the basic fundamentals of the sport, but also helped us recognize our own capabilities, thus moulding us into the players we are now. We have managed to win approximately 75% of our matches this year and have done so with our terrific point guards Ngoni Mukorombindo and Tafadzwa Chiweshe, outstanding guards, Nyasha Madziva, Denzel Nachipo, Tichadei Mazhude and Munya Mazambani and our prolific basemen Farai Lioga,

Thabo Gapare, Tino Chikoto, Takudzwa Mahofa, Shingai Masenda and myself. This year was our much anticipated transition from junior to senior basketball and the beginning of a new chapter in our basketball lives.

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P. Bera

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M. Mazambani

Players

N. Mukorombindo, T. Chiweshe,

N. Madziva, D. Nachipo, T. Mazhude, F. Lioga, T. Gapare, T. Chikoto, T. Mahofa, S. Masenda

U16B Basketball The start of the term was bumpy as our 1st game was lost to Prince Edward but we managed to pick it up very quickly against Eaglesvale. As in the 1st term we only managed to lose three games. This term we are striving to try our best and play as a team helped which so far has helped us succeed. The team will definitely be putting 110% in practice and in the games we play. With our determination As a team we have drastically improved not only

on our offensive and defensive plays but also our fitness level. We have also learnt not to give up as we have been points behind and have so far managed to come back and win the game. The team is very strong mentally, physically and our ability to work as a team has improved as I think now we have understood that team work is the key to succeed in this sport.

Ishaan Zavery

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The U15A basketball team this year has faced some tough challenges throughout the first and the third terms, playing teams with a lot of size and whose competitiveness had not been anticipated. However, the love and passion for the game united the boys, and therefore the team’s determination grew stronger through perseverance. A comprehensive training program for the boys at higher level was given a deliberate bias. This was to establish a RAMS (St Johns College) Basketball Program that will be the best vehicle to provide the widest possible range of appropriate opportunities for everyone to actively take part in the RAMS Basketball for personal development, enjoyment, better health and competitive purposes. Most of the boys showed a lot of improvement in their skills and in their games throughout the year. All of the players in the team did manage to be in the starting five by the time we met St Georges at the end of the season in the third term. Although we lost the St Georges game, it should be noted that all the teams played with courage and determination. The highlight of the season was the 2011 U15

U15B Basketball The U15B team did not have as many games as they should have had, as half of the league the opposing teams did not field B teams for a variety of reasons. Team selection was very difficult for the coaches as there were 25 young and energetic players all fighting for a very few places on the team, and even fewer game opportunities. During training sessions, the players continued to practice the basic fundamentals of the game such as how to do a simple layup, shoot free throws and how to play proper defence without tackling the opposition and earning a foul. Basketball is a sport that requires great flexibility and reflexes which do not come naturally to all. The players who displayed a good understanding of what was required of them at this level, which is the foundation of the senior teams, were the ones who made it into the B team and had the opportunity to play the 9 matches we had against St Georges, Eaglesvale, Prince Edward, Gateway and Peterhouse in the first and third terms. All of the players did however manage to have a reasonable amount of game time by the time we met St Georges at the end of the season in the third term. As well as fulfilling our league commitments, a

St Johns College Basketball Invitational Tournament, sponsored by the College and Parents were the U15A boys did fairly well, winning against Prince Edward Watershed and Eaglesvale. Unfortunately they did not proceed to the semifinals due to points difference in favor of their rivals. As the teams progress to higher levels leadership roles will change as to give others an opportunity to captain the various sides. The coaches will be looking out for those who undertake leadership roles naturally, without necessarily being appointed, by encouraging their team mates and ensuring that the courts are neat and tidy after games. Well done boys and all the best in your future basketball careers.

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Mr E. Banda E. Nyambayo, T. Govera, T. Makombe, M. Mushauri, N. Wilson, T. Muapurisa, J. Nyabadza, R. Sibanda, M. Nyabereka, T. Chikosi, K. Mubayiwa

Mr E. Banda Coach social game against Arundel was also arranged for the players, where the boys started by being shy but later realised that the girls were stiff competition as they were determined to win. Balancing the need to field competitive teams, as well as our strong belief in allowing all players on the register an opportunity to play in matches was a real challenge as the rules state that a maximum of 12 players are allowed to be registered for a match and there is a first 5 with the other 7 being substitutes. Game time for the B team is also limited to two halves of 12 minutes running time each. As the players go to the higher age groups it is hoped that they will continue to be focused and train hard.

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Mr J. Maseko T. Chitambo, M. Hlatshwayo, T. Mangiza, P. Mangunga, T. Madziva, P. Chikwanah, R. Tavaguta

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U14A Basketball The year of 2011 has been outstanding for all of us in the Under 14 A team. We as a side have proven that we have a great amount of talent, and always work well together on the court. At the beginning of the year we started the season on a high note by defeating Churchill and ended the first part of the season with a victory against St Georges College. We started the third term on a good note having the great opportunity of travelling to Bulawayo to compete in one of the first Under 14 Basketball tournaments held at C.B.C, where we

managed to gain a first place victory. As a team we look forward to our developing Basketball careers and with determination and practise we should become great college basketball players. Our players are all determined, quick, and alert and I feel that makes us such a strong side. They are also very good at defence and teamwork. However our passing and shooting skills need work. I can foresee in four years’ time we aim to be all playing at First Team Level here at St John’s College.

M. Mpisaunga U14 Captain U14B Basketball This year we achieved a lot as a B side, winning the majority of our games and demonstrating great sportsmanship on the basketball courts. In first term we were unbeaten winning by great margins in each game, and working together as a team in all aspects. As the year progressed, and entering into the third term, we managed to perform well in all games. We had the great opportunity along with the A team to travel down to Bulawayo and compete in the first ever under 14 tournament, held at C.B.C school. There we competed against some tough teams, and ended up achieving a 3rd place in our group table. A pleasing result to all of us!

Other matches in the term saw us lose our first match, against Churchill A team, 28-8, however we were determined not to let that prevent us from winning the rest of our games. As a team we are very pleased with our first basketball season this year, being coached by two inspiring coaches Mr. Chikanda and Mr. Williams, who we all wish to thank. They did an outstanding job and taught us everything we need to know about basketball. Our team was led by Tarisiro Fundira, who has shown great leadership skills as a captain. Next season we aim to improve our skill level and maintain our proud record as a great team.

Girls’ Basketball A first for the college occurred in 2011, when at the beginning of the year the IB girls were allowed to play on the basketball court for the first time as a team. Mr Musiwa graciously gave up his time to transform girls who didn’t know or understand the game to competent basketball players. Techniques,

skills and drills we endured during challenging practice hours. As it was a new sport to the college we did not get to play any games against other schools but the training has stood us a good stead for those who are aspiring to continue with the sport in the future.

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In general, in the long format of the game, the cricket year of 2011 was not a very impressive one. The first term’s performances were particularly disappointing. However the squad, to their credit, did improve their performances in the August holidays and third term matches. In the T20 format, the side had an impressive 75% winning ratio (6 of the 8 matches played were won), attaining 3rd spot in the SGC/CABS T20 and runner-up finalists in our T20, and only losing to St George’s on a ‘controversial’ second last ball. Despite the dismal first term performances there was a match or two that was very narrowly lost or could have been won, but for the advent of rain. On the foreign tour, against Hilton, we required 40 runs off the last 8 overs on a very small outfield. Robbie was at the crease on 74n.o. and partnered with the ever reliable Bain, and with 4 wickets still in hand, SJC were on track to beat Hilton. However, the rain came to prevent an ultimate outcome, but the side can look back with sense of pride for the quality cricket played in

that particular encounter. The squad also missed out on beating St Charles, a competent cricket school in South Africa. They were 9 wickets down, batsman no. 10 and 11 at the crease and with still 6 runs needed to win from the final over. Unfortunately, we never executed the final over as we should have, and ended up losing. The first term continued in a similar manner. However, conducting extra internal matches and practices in the August holidays, provided an opportunity for the coaching staff to assess other players and provide existing players to grow in confidence. Russell Smith came to the fore over this period, and Gary King, a form 3 batter, was discovered. They both strengthened the batting, which contributed towards the improved performances. The harder August wickets and faster outfields also suited many of the St John’s batters who are instinctive strikers of a cricket ball. Lawerance de Grandhomme ‘old school’ discipline and forthrightness also added more gravity to each individual. Kieran Geyle’s continued tight

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R. Chambati (Scorer), R. Smith, K. Geyle, N. Bain, M. Wicks, H. Crous, G. King

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A. MacLeod, C. Tiffin, R. Robbie (Captain), J. Oldreive (Coach), S. Chisholm (Vice-Captain), A. Moorcroft, M. Lake, D. Bell

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• Kevin Merrington’s gutsy 64 vs St Charles’ – batted like a true senior player. • Carl Tiffin’s 5 wickets for 14 runs off ten overs vs Falcon – the best individual bowling performance of 2011 in the 50 over format • Malcolm Lake’s 97 vs Cornwall – more impressive though was the honesty and integrity he displayed when walking on 97 to a leg side ‘nick’ that no umpire would have given out. • Russell Smith’s 65no against St Alban’s. Fighting for a regular 1st team position, he showed great character and desire. As a result of that knock, he represented the 1st team in every remaining 1st team match in 2011. • Richard Robbie (32no) and Gary King (26no) batting out 30 overs to secure a well earned draw vs St Alban’s, in a two day declaration match. • Bain (57) and King’s (54) gutsy match winning 100 plus partnership versus Peterhouse. SJC was 5 wickets down with no runs to speak of when King joined Bain. The tail also wagged viciously in this match: Geyle (18no) and Crous (32no) contributed superbly with a quick and lusty 50 run unbeaten 10th wicket flurry at the end. • Bain (92) and Wicks (126) magnificent 236 run fourth wicket partnership against PE in the term 3 - possibly, an all time fourth wicket partnership record. It was Bain’s third 50 in a row. His consistently good batting performances in the middle order were beginning to bare some liking to the great Andrew Lindsay (2006-9): both have steady, calm batting temperaments, both able to

2011’s T20 highlights: • Russell Smith and Kevin Merrington formed possibly the most successful opening T20 1st team opening partnership ever. They regularly piled on the runs at the front of the innings and at a very brisk rate. They are both blessed with very good hand eye coordination. Their most memorable partnership was against PE in the 3rd/4th place play off at the St George’s T20. They single handedly chased down the PE total – SJC won the match by ten wickets, within about 8 overs, surely a first for any 1st team school chasing down a total in advance of 100. • Kevin Merrington’s batting at the St George’s T20. He opened the batting in 5 innings and, out of those 5 innings, he scored 4 fifties, and each 50 at a very brisk rate. Possibly, the most successful ‘consistent’ batting by any T20 1st batter in SJC cricket history. • Bain and Bell’s match saving partnership in the St John’s College T20 final. After a dismal start, these two, valiantly fought hard to ensure the bowlers’ had some form of target to defend. • Hylton Crous’ superb bowling in the St John’s College T20 final vs St George’s. His outstanding figures of 3 for 17 off 4 overs, swung the match back into St John’s grasp when seemed all lost.

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wait patiently for the bad one and put it away effectively. In the latter half of the year, Bain scored 388 runs at an impressive average of 48.5 runs. He obviously won batsman of the year. • Kieran Geyle’s very economical and efficient bowling throughout the year was another highlight. He deservedly won bowler of the year in 2011. His figures for 2011: 170 overs, 25 maidens, 24 wickets, 3.69 runs/over, 26.04 runs/wicket. He bowled, by far, the most maidens. The highlight of his bowling was his 5 for 19 vs Prince Edward. • Alistair Macleod’s focus and commitment and excellent statistics when target bowling at practices was very impressive throughout the third term and other younger cricketers would do well to emulate this work ethic.

bowling and Deven Bell’s welcome return to form with ball. The vast improvement in Hylton Crous’ bowling and his gutsy 10th wicket stands. All these factors contributed to the improved results in the second half of the season. Richard Robbie and his men are, in this regard, commended for their perseverance - despite the set backs experienced in the first term - they continued to endure and were rewarded with some fine victories over Cornwall, Peterhouse, Prince Edward and St Andrew’s (Bloemfontein). And of course, they won six of their eight T20 matches played in 2011 (a respectable 75% winning ratio).

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Cricket 1st Team Batting Stats for 2011 in Longer Format Name

Total Runs

Average

Bain

467

38.9

Lake

369

36.9

King

160

32.0

Smith

167

23.9

Robbie

309

23.8

Geyle

269

20.7

1st Team Bowling Stats for 2011 in Longer Format Name

Total ov

Total mdn

Total wkts

Total Runs

R/ ov

R/ wkt

Geyle

170

625

3.7

26.0

Crous

138

3.8

19.7

Bell

162

626

3.9

27.2

Moorcroft

326

3.9

20.4

Tiffin

142

3.9

20.3

MacLeod

105

415

4.0

27.7

Lake

335

4.5

19.7

Letter from the St Andrews Captain on Cricket Tour to Zim Being honest, we as the St Andrews College Cricket XI, did not know at all what to expect. We were soon hosted by various families in little groups having our doubts but also our expectations. After the first few minutes we spent with our hosts, we soon realised that we were completely wrong about the country of Zimbabwe. The schools that we came up against were truly admirable both on and off the field and probably some of the nicest people we had ever met. We played four one day games against St Georges, St John’s, Peterhouse and Falcon in which we won three. The facilities were brilliant along with hospitality of both the opposition schools and the parents. Then came our rest day where we were given the opportunity to experience one of the best animal sanctuaries in Zim where we stroked Cheetah, gazed at majestic lions with wide eyes and even a relative of the armadillo. For the following three days, we took part in one of the best and most exciting tournaments in the whole of Zimbabwe, the St Georges T20 tournament. We got off to a shaky start losing to both St John’s and Falcon, both teams that we had beaten already. But we bounced back and won our next three games in a fine spirit bringing home as much momentum as possible. Zimbabwe as a whole was an absolutely unbelievable experience. We learnt not only how to improve our game but also how to handle various pressures along the way. The hospitality shown by our hosts was truly exceptional and the friendships we made with each other and with others will always be remembered. As a team we thank everyone who made the effort to make this tour possible, all the parents who supported us up in Zim but also our coaches Mr Bradfield, Mr Jackson and Mr Dewey who not only taught us so much but also for putting so much time and effort into each and every one of us! Michael Rushmere, Captain, St Andrews 1st XI

1st XI Cricket Captain’s Report I can’t say that this year has been a successful one for us but it has been one in which we have learnt many new things and have learnt how to deal with the many obstacles that have come our way. We set off on tour to Michaelhouse on the 9th January to the 15th January all nervous but excited for the year ahead. After suffering a narrow defeat to Michaelhouse we were up against Kersney College. Unfortunately we went down to them and St Charles the next day but faced Hilton on the last day of tour. It was here where the team played with all their pride and passion. Needing 50 runs in 8 overs it looked as though St John’s would be pulling off a victory but unfortunately the heavens opened and a continues down pour of water resulted in the match being cancelled and so it was drawn. During the August holidays we played in the St Georges T20 tournament in which we came 3rd. Unfortunately we lost to prince Edward which resulted in us not being able to qualify for the finals. But we got another chance to play PE in the 3rd and 4th playoff in which the boys set out with nothing to lose and managed to pull off an unbelievable victory winning by 10 wickets. Special mention must go to Kevin Merrington and Russell Smith who both opened the batting and batted the whole innings. Special mention must also go to Geyle, Macleod, Bell and Moorcraft who bowled unbelievably well restricting them to below 130. Our domestic games didn’t go as planned - losing the first four and recording our first 50 overs win in the third term against Peterhouse on the 14th

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I have had the privilege to be the 2nd XI coach for the last six years and the fine young men, in their respective teams, have had many epic battles on the pitches at SJC, Peterhouse and St Georges. The 2011 Team emulated their predecessors and had another excellent year. Our boys played with commitment, skill and above all with a sense of joie de vivre, enjoying

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Richard Robbie, 1st XI Captain the game and developing an excellent team spirit. Who will forget that day when Peterhouse were 170 for 0 at tea, chasing a target of 200 runs. We went out for the final session, Russell Smith and Rahil Naik inspired their players, wickets tumbled and PH were soon all out for 197. The final match was against SGC, coached by my old friend and adversary Selby Black, so Back Nandish Shukla Daniel Wijers Johan Muller (Coach) Rahil Naik (Captain) Daniel Hofmann Jason Murray Front Row Tyrone Matthews Brendan du Preez Barry Vickery Stuart du Preez Kurt Burger Tim Kirby Inset Martin Hulbert Matthew Ribeiro Russell Smith Hylton Crous Fatima Naik (Scorer)

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we were put into bat and after a shaky start we were able to set and unbelievable 295 runs off the 50 overs. Special mention must go to Matt Wicks who scored an incredible 126 runs and Nick Bain who made 94. Our mainline bowlers Malcolm Lake, Geyle, Bell, Crous and King bowled with such flair and determination that we restricted them to under 160 runs thus winning the game by 135 runs. During both T20 tournaments we hosted players from Hilton College, St Andrews Grahamstown, St Andrews Bloemfontein, St Albans and Cornwall. It was here where we built friendships that will last a life time. I would like to thank Mr Oldreive and Mr de Grandhomme for all that they have taught us. The extra hours they have made in order to help improve our game was greatly appreciated.

of September by over 100 runs. This increased our confidence and was said to be the turning point. This meant that we went into our own T20 tournament more confident and eager to do well. On the 23rd of September the first day of the St John’s T20 started. Our first game was against St Andrew’s Bloem. We won this game and then faced Churchill and PE in which we won both making it through to the finals. Here we were up against our rivals St Georges but unfortunately lost on the 2nd last ball of the game. A special thanks must be made to all the parents who helped organise the tournament, Ballantyne Spar for all the input and to each and every individual who supported us over the weekend. The week after the T20 we played against Prince Edward in a 50 over game. Losing the toss

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Cricket there was much needle in this game. Fatima Naik had organised a farewell function at our pavilion so it was only fitting that my boys comprehensively outplayed Selby’s team.

Many thanks to Fatima Naik for being the best scorer in Zimbabwe and to all the parents for their excellent support. Above all to the Men of St John’s for making 2011 a memorable year.

Mr. Johan Muller, 2nd XI Coach Under 16A Cricket

The under 16 A cricket team had a very up and down year of cricket. In the first term the boys played well, winning the majority of our matches. Two of our boys were selected to represent Zimbabwe under in South Africa in June. The boys were Gary King and Shane Snater. Third term came with a challenge as Gary King was selected for the 1st XI. The boys struggled at first losing to Peterhouse and then Prince Edward away from home, and then Saint Georges also away from home. The season then turned around when we played Saint Georges in mid – week T20 at Saint Georges, we were set a mammoth total of 206 in our 20 over’s to chase down, and with some great batting from Gary King, Daniel Cruger and Shane Snater we managed to chase down the total with only one wicket down and four balls to spare, a great victory. The following weekend we played Prince Edward at home and turned the result around, beating them by over 100 runs.

The junior T20 festival – we played Prince Edward on Friday afternoon, and won comfortably. On Saturday we played against Falcon College in what was to be a semi- final, as who ever won went through to the final on Sunday. Once again we batted really well and chased down 140 with 4.2 overs to spare. This meant that we would be playing Saint Georges in the final on Sunday afternoon. The game was a wonderful showcase of cricket, with both teams putting their bodies on the line. It came down to the final over, with 20 runs required for victory, a rather tall order at under16 level. We feel one run short after a fantastic effort by Naude, and Rust. This side had lost last year by one run in the final as well, so it was very hard for them to come so close and lose gain, but the determination and spirit in which they played was brilliant, a coach couldn’t ask for any more. Well done to all the boys on a good year of cricket and I look forward to seeing you all playing cricket again next year.

Mr R. Nel, U16A Cricket Coach Under 16B Cricket

The team had a fairly successful year, winning most of their games. During the first term there was plenty of enthusiasm, but the rainy season caused the cancellation or abandonment of many games. The outstanding achievement of this term was winning

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3 games and loosing one to St Georges College. The third term started with a return match against Peterhouse which we won and the team went on to finish the season with 3 wins and 3 loses of which two of them were suffered in the hands on St Georges College. An outstanding victory was that achieved against St Georges which was our last game of the year, St John’s College won by 2 runs. Special mention must be made of Mr A. Omarshah, who helped to coach the side during the 3rd team and to the captains N. Harris, B. Rust and M. Berens who were to a large measure responsible for the team’s spirit and success.

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Our current U15A cricket team, starting back in form one, has undoubtedly been a successful one, achieving great results and in 2011 a welldeserved unbeaten 1st term. A big influence on our team’s success has been the opening batsmen Mark Hulbert and Richie Lock who were always reliable and solid. Their highlight opening partnership was the final match of the 1st term against St George’s College when they put on 210 runs for the first wicket. Remarkable from an U15 side. As always, the middle order contributed and finished off games well as the totals we chased were often very low. But when we did bat first then the runs they added were very valuable. Beanie Tanner, who was new to St John’s this year, has slotted into the team with ease and has proven himself by contributing runs at a good rate along with Mike Rossi and Kyle Hopper. For the batsmen who didn’t get a chance to prove themselves, they too worked hard on their batting during the term and I’m sure in many other teams around the country our tail would easily slot into the middle order. This shows our depth in batting. Other memorable performances were Brad Evans’ 75 which he scored very quickly against St George’s and Richard Lock’s gritty and well fought innings of 66 vs. St George’s in the same match where he batted for over 40 overs. But one that must be mentioned is Mark Hulbert again with his unbelievable 105 again vs. St George’s. This was Mark’s second senior school hundred which is a great achievement. As a bowling unit this team would never slack and was usually on form with the ball. Douglas Smith was chosen for the A team in his

last match as form 1 and he certainly showed what he could do, and this year he has really cemented his place in the team. A player who always gives his best in the wickets and is low in economy. The opening pair of Brad Evans and Mark Hulbert did their job - Mark being economical while Brad was up in the wickets with some great pace. An opening partnership with the ball that I’m sure many teams were threatened by. Kyle Hopper and Mike Rossi didn’t get to bowl as many overs as they deserved but they definitely contributed to the wickets column when they got thrown the ball. When these two are in partnership runs are hard to come by. It was unfortunate that players such as James Waller and Brandon Palmer didn’t have a bowl on more occasions but these two guys are capable of bowling very well when given a chance. The man with the gloves must be given a special mention as he has done an outstanding job for our team, especially as he took over in late form one, well done Trevor Smith. This team’s fielding was up to scratch to say the least. Some great catches taken and some amazing stops and dives. If there was one outstanding fielder it would be Brandon Palmer who also provides good humour when needed. All of this would not be possible without the hard work of our coach Mr Odendaal who has worked with us since form one 3rd term and led us to an unbeaten 1st term. He has taught us a lot. We will always remember him for the final three catches everybody had to take at the end of each practice! Thank you Sir. To the team I hope that we can all keep learning this year and finish off the way we started.

E. Byrom, U15A Cricket Captain Under 15A Cricket - Coach’s Report We started off the year against Peterhouse and beat them by nine wickets. It was a great bowling performance, as we got them all out for 91. We then got two more convincing wins against Churchill and Prince Edward. Then it was down St Georges. We put on a good total, Mark Hulbert making a century. The boys then bowled well and were able to bowl them out well short of our total.

In the third term we started against Churchill. We made 272, Richard Lock making 69. We won by 186 runs, Micheal Rossi taking 3 wickets. We played a good Peterhouse team, who made 227. We were bowled out for 182, losing by 45 runs. Against Prince Edward, we made 351, Richard Lock making 60, Eddie Byrom 64,

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Cricket Micheal Rossi 73 and Kyle Hopper 57. The boys bowled well, getting them out for 203, winning by 148 runs. We then played St Georges. They made 204, Brad Evans taking 4 wickets. We won the game by 4 wickets, Eddie Byrom making 89 not out. We played a T20 against St Georges, we made 193, Eddie Byrom making 101 not out. The boys bowled well and we won by 87 runs, James Waller taking 4 wickets. It was then on to the St Johns Junior T20 Festival. We came up against P.E. and Falcon in our pool and we managed to pick up two convincing wins which put us through to the final against Peterhouse. We got them all out for 78 and we

Under 15B Cricket The U15B cricket team had a successful year in 2011 despite the fixture list being rather restricted due the limited number of schools in Mashonaland being able to field B teams on a regular basis. St John’s acquitted itself well, learning to lose with dignity and win with humility during the first and third terms, winning six games and losing four. The most exciting games were against Peterhouse at Honey B field in the first match of the year which St John’s won by 13 runs; in the third term, once again playing at home St John’s beat St Georges by 46 runs with Takudzwa Munyanyi scoring 63 not out and Naeem Mahomed scoring a rapid 58 not out. In the St Georges innings

Under 15C Cricket As Captain of the Under 15C cricket team I am very pleased to say that we have done very well. The first term belonged to us but the third term, to our opponents. In the first term we played two games against our good old rivals, St George’s. We won the first game by 6 runs, Ncube having made 22. In the second match we won again, this time by 11 runs. Ncube made 25 runs, Vyas 23 and Baig 21. In the second term the winter sports came into

won the game by 7 wickets and winning the tournament. Brad Evans was the best batsmen and all-rounder of the tournament. We then played Churchill again. We made 257, Mark Hulbert 78 and Richard Lock 111 not out. We bowled them out for 104, winning by 153 runs. Our next game was a convincing win against Prince Edward where we bowled them out for 61, Brad Evans and James Waller both taking 3 wickets. We won by 6 wickets. The boys had an outstanding year and I commend all the boys on their determination and commitment to the game. It was a great pleasure to coach all of them.

Mr A. Odendaal U15A Cricket Coach Kealan McKenzie took six wickets with his accurate leg-spin bowling. Other outstanding individual performances were Naeem Mahomed (five wickets against Prince Edward), Takudzwa Munyanyi (five wickets against St Georges; 56 not out against St Georges in a T20 game), Stefan Bellini-Martin (five wickets, including a hattrick against Churchill), Tim Curle (four wickets against both Peterhouse and Prince Edward), and Brandon Bichard (51 runs against St Georges). Other regular contributors to the team effort were Kyle Hinde, Seth Hook, Takudzwa Makamure, Shane Malleus, Ben Mallon, Mthulisi Ncube and Kieran Vincent.

Mr J.P. Loveridge U15B Cricket Coach being and we only resumed our fixtures in the third term. This time St George’s had made some changes to their team and their strategy caught us by surprise. In our first game we lost by 6 wickets even though Horsely took two wickets with his fine bowling. In the next game St. George’s won by a single wicket! Mushonga, Adam and BrukJackson fielded quite well, each making a catch. The last of our games came soon after exams and

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The U14/A cricket team has had a very good season so far only loosing 1 match to Peterhouse. The results of our fixtures are: Falcon/ drew, St Georges/won by 8 wickets, Peterhouse/drew, PE/ won, Peterhouse/lost by 40 runs. The team’s ability grew throughout the year and moments of individual brilliance helped the team tremendously. We applied pressure as our bowlers restricted teams and put little pressure on our top order. Many thanks to the parents for their support and Tanya Chambati for scoring.

Under 14B Cricket Cricket this term has brought laughter and friendship into the air. They seemed a disorganised bunch at first but after some work these young boys worked together as a good team. We lost some players to the A team yet we gained some from the C’s. Once all these changes occurred and the boys settled down, the boys worked well together

Girls’ Cricket The 2011 girls’ cricket squad started the year eagerly anticipating the Ladies’ Cricket Tournament, due to take place towards the end of first term. Disappointment that this was later cancelled did not stop the team practicing hard and focusing on the development of skills. In fact, enthusiasm for the sport has only increased with the numbers

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thanked them for giving us competition. Overall we worked very well as a team and I am happy to be the leader of the SUPER C’S.

we were not fully prepared. We went down by 7 wickets. Regardless of the defeat we were good losers and we congratulated our opponents and

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and their talents started appearing. In the games we played the best they could. Against Peterhouse and St. Georges they met their matches and played good cricket. We lost the odd game but overall did quite splendidly as a developing team goes. The boys have potential, when they work together using that potential they’ll be a well- rounded team.

Marc Landman U14B Cricket Captain attending growing. Combined practice with the Staff Ladies’ Team has meant that both teams have been increasingly determined to improve. With this the passion for cricket grows and will hopefully continue to do so.

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St John’s Golf The numbers in golf have dropped from previous years but the general quality has been improving. Ms Syme took the juniors on Tuesdays, to Wingate and later on to Chapman. They were receiving instructions from the Chapman pros which was a great benefit to the players at such low costs. We are looking forward to the graduation of Tari Fundira into the senior team as he is the most promising Junior player. Young Kieran Vincent has already made the team for Sun City. Sadly we have to say good bye to Ms Syme because she has taken up another post. The boys will miss her.

The seniors have been training at Royal. Many thanks to Mr. Ian Mathieson for allowing us to use this wonderful facility. It seems that because we get to use the best facility in the country we have produced the best schoolboy golf teams as well. Our senior team has won the three inter-schools trophies and the best individual trophy went to Travis Smith. The team played in the World Schools Championships in Stellenbosch and then went on to play at Sun City in the St John’s Johannesburg International Challenge. They gained valuable experience in both tournaments.

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1st XI Hockey Our season started off with a few months of pre season training, the Indoor Hockey season, St John’s College 25th Anniversary Indoor Hockey Festival and a tour to South Africa, where we attended the St Stithians College Easter Hockey Festival. All of the pre season training and festivals saw us ready to play our opening match of the Field Hockey season against Peterhouse at home. Words can’t describe the feeling of running through the tunnel onto the pitch, with bag pipes behind us and the roar of the crowed as you lay foot on the prestigious 1st team hockey field. We went on to win this match 4-1 because they worked as a team and the support that they received from their peers. This was one of our best games along with our win over St George’s 4 - 3 and our win against

Eaglesvale by 6 goals to 1. We didn’t have an unbeaten season but I still believe that this season has been an unbelievable one, in which all of us have grown as individuals and as a team. As a result of all their hard work a number of the players were selected to represent Zimbabwe U19 and Zimbabwe U17 teams that travelled to South Africa on tour in August. Special thanks must go to Mr Milner and Mr Nel; for all that they have done for us as individuals and as a team. The time and effort they have put into our practices has definitely contributed to the success of our season. The words of encouragement and time spent with each and every one of us has been well spent.

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Zim U19 Representatives R. Naik, S. Chisholm, A. Machado, R. Robbie, D. Bell, A. Macleod, A. Breitenstein, N. Bain, Z. Ismail

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Indoor Hockey Season & Festivals: vs Prince Edward School vs St George’s College vs Churchill School vs Prince Edward School vs Eaglesvale High School vs St George’s College vs Prince Edward School vs Lomagundi College vs Prince Edward School vs Eaglesvale High School

Lost 3-6 Won 8-0 Won 12-2 Won 5-0 Won 6-0 Won 3-1 Won 6-3 Won 2-1 Won 3-0 Won 1-0

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Hockey Season: vs Peterhouse vs St Georges College vs Petra High School vs Lomagundi College vs Prince Edward School vs Midlands Christian College vs Petra High School vs South Eastern College vs Falcon College 2nd Team vs Falcon College 1st Team vs Eaglesvale High School vs Christian Brothers College vs Falcon College Lost 1-2 vs Prince Edward School vs Eaglesvale High School vs Lomagundi College vs Peterhouse vs Watershed College vs Midlands Christian College vs Eaglesvale High School vs Petra High School vs Christian Brothers College vs St Georges College vs St George’s College

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2nd XI Hockey The second team started the season off well, and set high standards throughout the term to improve their skills. The boys were always focused at training and gave of their best at every match. The highlight of the year for me was beating Saint Georges twice, once away from home, and once at home, both games we managed to get four goals, with only one goal scored against us. We also competed in the interzonals this year, which was held at St Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s this year, were we played against 3 first teams. Our first game was against MCC, which we won 2-1, we then drew to

Gateway First team, in a game that we controlled, and were unlucky not to win. We then played Hippo Valley, I really felt that we would beat them this year, but we never really had any control of the ball, and let them play their own game. We lost 0 -2. The team played with great spirit and determination throughout the season. It was a pleasure to coach them again this year. To those boys who are leaving all the best and well done on a good season. To the boys staying I look forward to you playing again next year.

Ross Nel Coach U16A Hockey Although we had a slow and rocky start, after settling down into our new positions, we managed to pull ourselves together and work as a team. We drew against Eaglesvale, and beat both Lomagundi and Churchill in the final matches. Myself, Brett Fox and Tafudzwa Chiweshe qualified to go to the U17 Mashonaland Hockey Trials. I made selection into the Mashonaland side and Later Zimbabwe non travelling reserve.

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I would like to take this opportunity to commend my teammates for giving their all and representing St Johns in an outstanding manner and keeping up the great level of quality hockey we have. I would also like to thank our coaches, Mr Anderson and Mr Powles for not giving up on us and encouraging us at every opportunity to play to the best of our abilities. I look forward to playing with as many of you as possible next year.

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The team had a very successful season which only got spoilt by an unexpected loss to Eaglesvale School. The whole team blended well with a mixture of both individual skill and team work. Captain K. Vincent, aka VINNO, was very inspirational, giving directions and strategies during matches. Stefan Bellini-Martin hit the target at will and was top goal scorer with 12 goals.

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U15B Hockey The under 15B team had only nine fixtures in the thirteen week season, winning three, drawing one and losing five games; goals for ten, goals against nine. Most of the boys in the team had good ball skills, but the majority were too slow both on and off the ball to make the most of those skills. Exceptions to this were Emmanuel Nyambayo (captain of the team for six of the games until he won promotion to the U15A) and Naeem Mahomed (vice-captain, then captain for the last three games). The team played as a unit and showed commendable spirit despite the disappointing results.

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Nicholas Bruk-Jackson, Kyle Hinde, Timothy Hodgson (goalkeeper), Colin Horsley, Mayan Lad, Fauzi Latif, Deven Marshall (goalkeeper), Takudzwa Munyanyi, Douglas Smith, Rodney Tavaguta, Martin Visser and David Whitaker.

U15C Hockey The U15 C hockey team played only two matches both against Peterhouse. We first played them away and in the blazing winter sun we went into half time 1-0 down. We were determined to come back in the second half and unfortunately Peterhouse managed to hang on although we did hit the post twice and completely dominated them

but the equaliser did not present itself to us. At home we comprehensively defeated Peterhouse 3-0 and dominated them from the start. Although we only played 2 matches I am very proud of my team and was honoured to be their captain.

Jay Mehta Captain U14A Hockey The side had an excellent season winning or drawing the majority of their games. The potential and commitment displayed by the team will go far in ensuring the success of next season. The team’s grit and determination was a fine example to the other teams. I’d like to thank Mr Shonhiwa and Mr Des for giving up their time to help the team.

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T. Mackie, R. Hayter, L. Butler, A. Lake, M. Hart, P. Davis, C. Robinson, M. Bell, M. Landman, T. Zimuto and H. Silk

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Indoor Hockey This year for the first time, we had an indoor season with weekly games in the first term. With the high quality of each player, there was fierce competition for starting places. After a few training and fitness sessions, the team began to gel and played some great hockey winning our first four games comfortably. With a few men down, we then found ourselves humbled by a strong and extremely skillful Prince Edward team. Our team however remained positive and used this defeat to motivate us and in the following week we bounced back, thrashing St Georges 6 – 0. This was a huge confidence booster as we headed into the highly anticipated 25th Anniversary Indoor Tournament held at St John’s that would conclude our season. With a solid defense, free flowing play and an unstoppable short corner, we

Girls’ Hockey This year’s girls’ hockey team did extremely well in representing the College. We had a strong team and our spirits were high as we received more attention and support from the boys than in previous years. As captain, I was proud to lead our team and represent the College.

qualified top of our group with good wins over Eaglesvale, St George’s, Lomagundi and a very satisfying 1 – 0 victory over Prince Edward. After a 2 – 1 win over Lomagundi in the semi-finals we once again met Prince Edward in what looked to be a fiery encounter. In front of a packed crowd, Prince Edward took the lead and John’s immediately struck back leveling the scores. In a fast and tense end to end match the score remained 1 – 1 thus forcing the final into a penalty shoot out. John’s narrowly took the trophy after a dramatic sequence of flicks from the spot. The tournament was superbly organized and was a great reflection of the College in its 25th year. Lifting the trophy capped off what was an excellent tournament at the end of a rewarding indoor season for a hardworking, skillful and united 1st team.

Rahil Naik, Captain Of the 13 indoor matches we won 7. This year we had the opportunity to play in the Silver Girls Hockey Tournament at Arundel School, coming seventh out of twelve competing schools. Overall it was a good season and a proud moment beating our rivals, Chisipite at home and

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this tour, we developed, grew as a team and matured as individuals and by the end of the season had realised our full potential. It was an honour to be the 2011 girls’ hockey captain and I am sure Chiedza Mavhima and Kelly Wood will do an excellent job as captain and vice for 2012. Lastly, special thanks to our coach Mr. Nel, who’s patience only made us a better team, assistant coaches Mrs. Mundawara, Martin Hulbert and Matthew Wicks, all the parents who have supported us beyond recognition and Mr. Fuller, our headmaster who not only attended every home match of ours, but also cheered us on and encouraged us throughout the year.

drawing with two extremely difficult schools to beat, Arundel and Dominican Convent Harare. The pride and team spirit among our players was huge and the support especially for those who made Mashonaland, Jessica Byrom, Kelly Wood, Kristie-Anne Craft, Chiedza Mavhima and Alexandra Hogg. Not only did we have girls representing on a provincial scale, but also on an international scale, with our first touring squad going to the Maties Stellenbosch Development Tour in Cape Town, South Africa. Our team represented the College, showing great tenacity and playing superb hockey against some of the toughest teams in South Africa. I think through

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“After the game, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.”

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The season was not as bad as many people would have us all believe. It was certainly made harder through serious injury and the resultant loss of top players. Preston Bryant, who had played very well on tour, and in a remarkably brave effort, with a fracture to his lower leg and serious injury to his thumb in our last game and Kevin Merrington, were huge losses to the team because of their ability to play several positions very well. When Ulrich and Jamie were absent we struggled to play in the opposition half without their educated boots at play maker and in particular Ulrich’s long raking kicks. One player from this squad however, can be singled out and deserves special mention. The 2011 Captain, Phillip Jeans. He led from the front, never gave up, and always encouraged, successfully, whoever was selected, to represent the RAMS 1st XV. Congratulations to our Captain who had the most difficult season to lead in, in the 5 years that I have been involved with the 1st XV at the College. Phillip led the side when we had to fulfill fixtures against very good opposition, at times, with up to 10 of the best missing through injury and national duty. We were without our national schools and national U19 players for the last 4 matches. For the first time fixtures were

arranged during Craven Week and this was also the case when an under 19 tournament was being held in Harare. As is Phillip’s character, he never made excuses and always believed in the XV that took the field with him. He simply rolled up his sleeves and got on with the job. He earned my respect week after week. With Phillip the belief that we could win was always there, and this team took that inspiration and desire to the field on every occasion. “Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone.” Well done Phillip. You were a star and you made the job of coaching in a difficult year so much easier. The very light pack of forwards did exceptionally well, with Phillip controlling lineout calls. They scrummed well and won almost all their lineouts with Tinotenda Chinyani showing what an exceptional lineout forward he is. His success was however also due to the fact that, Ollie, Travis, Ben, Nikai, Sijabuliso and Joshua were very accurate with their tasks of throwing in and lifting. The scrum held their own. They were never dominated and actually out scrummed much heavier units due to superior technique and timing. It was a tough ask of Mr. Andy Ferreira to coach a changed three quarter unit week in

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Middle K. Merrington G. Lindsay S. Juru D. Rorke J. Smallbones T. Midzi A. Wilkinson M. Eastwood P. Bryant A. Ferreira Seated T. Simpson U. Kontchou L. Teede Mr R. Vickery P. Jeans (Captain) J. Forrester (V. Captain) Mr A. Ferreira O. Chadwick W. Seremani J. Dube Front Rambo

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Albert Einstein

“Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.”

Rugby and week out. However, one thing that any three quarter line we assembled did not lack, was courage in defence. A lack of real pace on numerous occasions required serious deviousness in defence. Through injuries to Miles and Wilson the team were often handicapped through a lack of real pace. Wilson Seremani , Jamie Forrester and Ulrich Kontchou were without doubt our best attackers, and brilliant they were when they played. Wilson and Ulrich were without doubt our best finishers. If Mr. Ferreira had had the regular services of these 4 players and Preston, a different story would have unfolded, to be sure. The fitness of this team was never in question. When you consider the amount of defending they had to do right to the last game, the commitment of 33 boys to their College can never be questioned. They spent days carrying the logs, encouraging each other as they sprinted up those hills on Fisher. The commitment and effort was no different than any other year at the College. The humour and camaraderie displayed at these sessions was out of the top draw, and we as coaches actually enjoyed these sessions very much. It was noted at the end that a few logs were missing. I wonder if Daniel Spencer may have slipped a couple into his car so that he could continue training by himself. I think that Daniel, actually, deep down inside, loves the rough and tumble and “manly” requirement of those” Moorsies Mondays”. Or, is it a fact that this was the closest he could get to the much admired activities at Quest and his way of demonstrating “Ticker”, which we all know he has. I would like to thank Mr. Andy Ferreira and Mr. Ken Moores for the huge amount of time and expertise given to this team. Ken’s fitness training is legendary at the College and very effective. Thank you very much for all you have done for the College in the rugby arena during the 5 years that I have been at the College. You will both be fondly remembered by the boys. It is without doubt the most difficult year through injury that I have experienced at the College. It is also the first time in my five years at the College that we have played fixtures against

very good schools without our national players. (It must not be forgotten that we did not play against CBC from Bulawayo this year. The only time in 5 years, in my experience.) They have in the past, certainly boosted the win ratio at the College. This is a situation that has to be addressed in the future when fixtures are drawn up, because it does not give a true reflection of the strength of the school. It is grossly unfair to the open age group and where the loss of players to their teams is compounded by their own injuries. One person should not be allowed to simply produce fixtures for schools without consultation. Given the record of this College, 38 players in 5 years provided to Zimbabwe schools and Zimbabwe U19, we are at a huge disadvantage should this policy continue? Further to this, there lies great danger in playing against schools, now professionally coached, who field a majority of 19 year old players in their teams against at team made up entirely of 17 and 18 year olds. The risk of serious injury to players will result from the age difference. And, if we add 16 year old boys to this equation, the situation is disturbing. To St. John’s College, thank you sincerely for the opportunity to coach the 1st XV over the last 5 years. It has been an honour, it has been exciting, and it has been truly rewarding. I am very blessed to have had this opportunity, very blessed indeed. I have always tried hard not to let the few spoil it for the many, and at the end of the day they have not. To all the players, thank you for your commitment to the game of rugby at the college. To the RAMS of 2011: As a group you had the best sense of humour I have experienced. Often, you missed the punch lines, but I then did not say that you were the most intelligent. Clever, yes. I can’t believe that you were truly baffled by the true geography of the 1st XV fields at the various schools in Zimbabwe, and through which landmarks in the world, the line through the centre of the poles actually passes. You have been an excellent bunch of men and if what Mr. Zwart said was true, I fully expect to see the vast majority of you driving a Land Rover one day.

Mr Ryan Vickery Head Coach, 1st XV Rugby

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Points Against

269

303 (Affies 88; Paarl Boys 38)

Tries

Conversions Penalties

Fixtures Opposition

Most Tries

Against Venue

Most Points

Wilson Seremani

Jamie Forrester

Ulrich Kontchou

Wilson Seremani

Joshua Smallbones

Ulrich Kontchou

Rukodzwa Gona

Man of Match

Status

For

AHS (Affies)

Lost

Tour

Leo Teede

A tough day at the office against the No. 2 school in South Africa.

Comments

Parktown Boys

Won

Tour

Preston Bryant

Great comeback. First time we have beaten them on tour. 2 weeks before this tournament Parktown had defeated Maritzburg College who were ranked 21st in South Africa.

HJS Paarl (Paarl boys)

Lost

Tour

Joshua Smallbones

12 nil down after 3 minutes. A great recovery in defence after this against the No. 3 school in South Africa.

Plumtree

Won

Cotco

Phillip Jeans

A good performance from a number of 3rd XV and 2nd XV team players.

Midlands Christian College

Won

Cotco

Mark Wright

Mid. Christian beat Falcon at Falcon last year and fancied their chances against us. Another good performance from 2nd and 3rd XV players.

Lomagundi College

Won

Cotco

Ulrich Kontchou

A great scrap. Lomagundi, with my permission, used an U19 player who had left school. Excellent defence.

Peterhouse

Won

Home

James Forrester

Jamie was outstanding. Our best performance of the domestic season.

St. Georges College

Lost

Away

Wilson Seremani

A difficult game for a light pack in pouring rain. We missed some penalties early on which could have made a difference. The Dragons were worthy winners.

Falcon College

Won

Away

Wilson Seremani

Wilson was brilliant. An excellent defensive effort by all. 2 brilliant defensive hits by Wilson and Joshua basically decided this battle. Have not lost to Falcon in 5 years.

Prince Edward School

Won

Away

Anthony Moorcroft Daniel Rorke

Wilson and Urich were excellent as a centre pairing for the first time together. Their defence was excellent. The first time we have won at Prince Edward for 3 years. My favourite victory of the season.

Churchill

Lost

Away

Joshua Smallbones

Curtain raiser to the National Team vs Kenya at Harare Sports Club. With a little luck we could have won this game. Churchill were very good. Again we did not take advantage by converting the penalties awarded

Lomagundi College

Won

Home

Rukodzwa Gona Leo Teede

Excellent defence. Rukodzwa in his first 1st team game as a Form 4 scored 11 points. Leo was brilliant in defence and saved us many many times.

St. Georges College

Lost

Home

Tinashe Midzi

This was an outstanding effort, the best of the season, with 10 1st choice players out. Tinashe Midzi was outstanding in defence and attack. The referee was not quick enough to witness our two touchdowns. But, St. Georges missed a few of their own opportunities and were sadly deserved winners.

Churchill

Lost

Home

Leo Teede

Our injury crisis continued but the defence of our line remained resolute. Wilson pulled his hamstring with a clear run to the line. This added to our loss of top players. A brilliant game again by Leo.

Peterhouse

Lost

Away

Sijabuliso Dube Travis Simpson

Another great scrap from the boys. Travis and Ulrich played with serious injuries but never gave up. Ulrich scored a try and Travis was excellent in the front row against a far heavier pack. The never say die character of this team was on display and we lost on the final kick of the game, which in the very strong wind, was a brilliant effort by Rukodzwa.

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Zimbabwe Schools Goshawks vs British Schools Barbarians

Daniel Rorke Joshua Smallbones Preston Bryant (Captain) Travis Simpson Zimbabwe U19

Selected For Zimbabwe Schools At Trials 2011 Andrew Wilkinson Daniel Rorke James Forrester (Non Travelling Reserve 2010) Joshua Smallbones (Non Travelling 2010) Kevin Merrington Preston Bryant (Vice Captain and Non Travelling Reserve 2010) Ulrich Kontchou (2010 and 2011) Wilson Seremani

Anthony Moorcroft Gordon Lindsay Mark Wright Miles Eastwood Nikai Mavimba Samuel Juru Sijabuliso Dube Tinashe Midzi Tinotenda Chinyani

A Quarter Century of Excellence

Harare Schools Lions vs British Schools Barbarians

Andrew Wilkinson Benjamin Grainger Daniel Rorke James Forrester Oliver Chadwick Preston Bryant Travis Simpson Ulrich Kontchou Wilson Seremani

Team Award

St John’s College:

Daniel Rorke James Forrester Joshua Smallbones Preston Bryant Travis Simpson Awarded Full Colours

(15’s Rugby Unless Otherwise Stated)

Andrew Wilkinson Daniel Rorke James Forrester (15’s and 7’s) Joshua Smallbones Kevin Merrington Leo Teede Mark Wright (7’s Rugby) Philip Jeans Preston Bryant (15’s and 7’s) Travis Simpson Ulrich Kontchou (Re-Award) Wilson Seremani (15’s and 7’s) Awarded Half Colours Benjamin Grainger Oliver Chadwick

Rams Rugby 2007-2011 I feel that it would be remiss of me to not share the records I have gathered over the past 5 years, although, I do prefer the dreams of the future to the history of the past. There were many examples of this at the College in the 5 years I spent here. We just had to look at the crowds from our community who came to watch the game, to see how it was played and how it was officiated. And they enjoyed. Before I record the statistics for the last 5 years (2007-2011), which are the years that I was

involved in coaching the 1st XV Rugby team at the College with Mr. A. Vincent and Mr. K. Moores, 2007 and 2008, and with Mr. K. Moores, Mr. A. Ferreira and Mr. J. Oldrieve from 2009-2011, I would like to record my sincere thanks to these gentlemen and all the open group players from these years for the privilege I have had of being involved in a coaching capacity with them. Andy Vincent was a character indeed to coach with, and a fantastic, no nonsense coach from who I learnt a great deal about schoolboy

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Trophy Award

Reason

Recipient

Chadwick Trophy

Most Promising Lower 6 Player

Mark Wright

Rorke Trophy

The Best Individual Performance

Daniel Rorke vs Prince Edward

Parent’s Rugby Committee 2011

Most Consistent Player

Andrew Wilkinson

Parent’s Rugby Committee 2011

The Most Improved Player

Sijabuliso Dube & Anthony Moorcroft

Parent’s Rugby Committee 2011

Hit of the Year (Best Tackle)

Wilson Seremani vs Falcon Runner up: Joshua Smallbones vs St Georges

Ken Moores Trophy

Award for fitness and dedication too and attendance at ‘Moorsies Mondays’.

Oliver Chadwick

Michael Vickery Trophy

Best Defender

James Forrester

Wilson Trophy

For Guts And Determination

Philip Jeans as Captain of the 1st XV in 2011

Pierson Trophy

For Dedication Courage And Performance

James Forrester

Richard Sainsbury Trophy

Best Forward

Joshua Smallbones

Raymond De Jong Trophy

Best Three Quarter

James Forrester Runner up: Wilson Seremani

James Forrester Trophy

Most Valuable Player

James Forrester Runner up: Joshua Smallbones

Vinos Boot

For Courage and Unbelievable Commitment

Leo Teede

Andy Ferreira Trophy

7’s Player Of The Year

Wilson Seremani

Coaches Award

For cooperation, team spirit, humour, all-round playing ability, commitment to the team at practice and in matches, for the ability and willingness to play in different positions as and when asked to, as a service to the team. For excellent service to rugby at 1st XV Level at the College. This year’s recipient is also a good citizen of St. John’s College and Zimbabwe.

Travis Simpson

Todd Cup

Player’s Player Of The Year. The Players Voted Unanimously...

Leo Teede

rugby. He had an excellent sense of humour and was an excellent coach. Ken Moores is the best fitness and conditioning coach, with a wonderful manner, that I have worked with (the boys loved and respected him) and Andy Ferreira and Andy Vincent had the most remarkable ability to motivate players before matches. Justin Oldrieve is a brilliant schoolboy manager and a coach of substance too, who has a fantastic record with the, “Bullets”, 2nd XV rugby teams that he has coached, and a fantastic record on school tours

undertaken by the 1st XV squad. I must thank Mr. Atherton Squire for all his support of me on the road travelled. He has been an excellent master in charge of Rugby, and has recently taken over the Schools 7’s rugby in preparations for the Junior and Senior Olympics which are just around the corner. Then there is the infamous Mr. Chikanda. Sam always praised rather than criticized and his support was beyond

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“A brilliant referee is never noticed until the final whistle”

Rugby fault. Importantly he was always there for the boys, particularly when they lost, and always encouraged them to fight another day. Thank you Sam. Finally, our Headmaster for the last 3 years, Mr. Ross Fuller. This College was very blessed to receive a Headmaster of this calibre who had passion for the College and for sport at the College and always encouraged us all when the road was tough. Mr. Fuller’s contribution to sport at this

College will be remembered for a while to come, and was most appreciated by all the players and coaches at all age groups. Again, very sincere thanks, and may you and Riette be blessed in your future, outside of St. John’s. You will all see that our captain in his speech probably said it all. For the wisdom shared, the passion showed, and the great enjoyment I have shared with all at the College, I feel humbled and extremely

Players Selected for both Zimbabwe Schools and Zimbabwe U19 2007–2011

M. Todd, R. de Jong, G. Kaulback, J. Mc Wade, M. Swales, J. Coles, R. Sainsbury, K. Swan, G. Logan, J. Pieters, P. Bryant, J. Forrester, J. Smallbones, D. Rorke, W. Seremani. (15)

Players Selected for Zimbabwe Schools 2007–2011

Captains: M. Todd, G. Kaulback, J. Coles Vice Captains: J. McWade, M. Vickery, P. Bryant (1) Players: A. Machado, K. Jarvis, R. Bryant, J. Holmes, R. Morgan, J. Silcock, M. Mlalazi, C. Dollar, R. Todd, A. Lindsay, B. Fodouop-Mwambo, U. Kontchou, T. Chipumha, L. Whatman, J. Smallbones, W. Seremani, A. Wilkinson, K. Merrington. (18)

Selected for Zimbabwe U19 2007–2011 Those I consider were worthy of selection to Zimbabwe Schools or Zimbabwe U19 but were passed by.

D. Zaverdinos, R. Morkel, M. Sinclair, L. Wollman, T. Simpson, T. Jakarasi, T. Nyadongo (7) S. Teede, M. Mutoti, M. Hougaard, M. Hobbs, T. Gatsi, Corken K.

Here are some statistics to compare the last 5 years that I have been at the College. • Domestically, the College was unbeaten in 2007 (Captain Michael Todd) and 2008 (Captain Graham Kaulback). • In both years the Head Coach was Mr. Andy Vincent, assisted by Mr. R. Vickery (Forwards) and Mr. K. Moores (Fitness). • The College only lost one fixture at Cotco. • Both Draws were against Peterhouse and all 3 domestic season losses in 2009 and 2010 were to Prince Edward by very narrow margins. • St John’s College was voted the Rugby team of the year by the Ministry of Education in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. • In 2011 St. John’s College provided 7 of the starting XV players that won the CAR U19 qualifier. The team were presented to the President at State House and given $50 000,00. Two St. John ’s Mothers, Jeanine Pearson (Preston’s Mum) and Colleen de Jong were on the Management Committee for the U19 team. • 41 players have represented Zimbabwe Schools and Zimbabwe U19 • During this period the 2nd XV Bullets were unbeaten in 2007 and 2009. • Bullets only lost 5 matches in 5 years.

Mr Ryan Vickery

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“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure... Try to please everyone.”

Mr Ryan Vickery Head Coach, 1st XV Rugby 2009/10/11

1st XV Rugby Results 2007- 2011 / 1st XV Domestic Results 2007-2011 Year Played

Won

Drawn

Lost

% Wins

For

Ave. Against Ave. For Against

Coach

Captain

100%

391

A. V. R.V. K.M.

Todd M.

2008

91%

290

185

A. V. R.V. K.M

Kalback G.

2009

85%

356

104

R.V. A.F. K.M

Sainsbury R. / Todd R.

2010

86%

371

144

R.V. A.F. K.M.

Coles J.

2011

58%

232

172

R.V. A.F. K.M.

Jeans P.

TOTAL

84%

1640

676

Ave. Ave. Pts. Pts.For Against

1st XV Results Tours 2007-2011 Year Played

Won

Drawn

Lost

% Won

Points For

Points Against

Coach

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2007

Captain

2007

N/A

2008

33%

A.V. R.V. K.M.

Kaulback G.

2008

100%

R.V. J.O.

Jeans M.

2009

67%

R.V. A.F. K.M.

Sainsbury R Todd R.

2010

67%

R.V. K.M. A.F. J.O.

Coles J.

2010

67%

131

R.V. J.O.

Coles J.

2011

33%

269

232

R.V. K.M. A.F. J.O.

Bryant P.

privileged. I wish you all well in the future with all you have to share as coaches and men with the players and students of tomorrow. I know that the RAMS of 2007 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 do and will fondly remember you all.

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Rams 1st XV Captain’s Report Another season’s has come and gone, and been added to the college history. Preparations for the 2011 season began early into the first term. The first taste of rugby for this year came in the form of sevens. This training and the training for the tour to St John’s College in Johannesburg, was all part of the foundations for the season in the second term. With the dreaded fitness sessions from Mr Moores giving us a taste of what we didn’t miss, the work towards our season began. After returning from a good tour, playing some very high level South African schools, the Rams went on to the annual Cottco Schools Rugby Festival. Using this as a chance to try out new combinations and give players a chance to prove themselves. The Rams won all three games at Cottco. The first game of the 2011 season was against a strong Peterhouse side, with a good performance from both teams, showing that both sides still had much to work on. The Rams produced a convincing win. With a victory and still potential for improvement we went on to play the age old foe St Georges away. With a good start to the game the rams lead going into the half time break. With weather conditions getting progressively worse the game shifted to favour the bigger St Georges pack, after much trench warfare the Dragons won narrowly. The following weekend some of our men travelled down to Falcon College for the national trials. Of these six made the National Craven Week side. These were, Daniel Rorke, Kevin Merrington, James Forrester, Wilson Seremani, Joshua Smallbones, and Andrew Wilkinson. Well done men. The next week we travelled down to Esigodini to play Falcon College on their home ground. This is never an easy task. The game was a very tight encounter, with attempts being stopped at critical moments for both teams, a remarkable defensive performance by Wilson Seremani saved the Rams from conceding a late try. The Rams emerged the victors. The challenge that stood ahead was one that would challenge any teams’ limit. The Prince Edward Tigers on the much respected Jubilee field. The Rams hadn’t beaten the Tigers on Jubilee for

three years. The match was an extremely physical contest in the forwards, and one of skill and pace in the backs. The game came right down to a final minute try by flyhalf Ulrich Kontchou and conversion by James Forrester to snatch the win for the Rams. This made Rams 2011 the first Rams team to win on Jubilee in three years. After the half term break, a Rams side weakened by many injuries and illness, travelled to an unfamiliar ground at Harare Sports Club. Playing the curtain raiser game to Zimbabwe vs Kenya. Here we took on the Churchill Bulldogs, the game was a close encounter with many of our new capped members playing bravely and proudly. The match came down to a final scoring play being disallowed for the Rams and so we went down narrowly. After such a defeat the Rams pulled together and determined to prove it is not over, the men trained hard and long in the week before we faced the Lomagundi side. In a loose game the Rams played as a close unit and won comfortably. With more injuries and national call up, many new caps would gain the chance to step up and play for the Rams. The return matches followed, first St Georges then Churchill at home. The Rams fought proudly and bravely until the ends, unfortunately the number of players missing affected the strength of our side, and the Rams went down in well played and hard fought games against St Georges and Churchill. The final game against Peterhouse away was always gonna be hard with so many members missing, with the Zimbabwe players electing to play in the under twenty world cup qualifiers, but the men who stepped up to take their places and the game came down to a final minute penalty kick being missed by the Rams. In all the Rams played nine games, winning four and losing five. What we got out of this season stretches far beyond the scores and results. The friendships made and memories shared are what make school boy rugby the special thing it is. For the Rams of 2012 we wish you all the best. It is an honour to have played with everyone who represented the Rams of 2011.

Phillip Jeans Captain

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As Sevens rugby has now become an event in the Olympic games I was ecstatic to find out it was put on our schedule for the 2nd term, mixing in some tournaments with every weekend fixtures leading up to the 15’s season. With a mix of elusiveness, power, and strength I had a feeling the St. Johns team would dominate the schools sevens during the course of the year, which proved to be true. With the help of a national coach, Mr. Ferreira, our statistics proved to be the best in the nation. We were unbeaten for the season (apart from the loss in the final at the Peterhouse 7’s) and in fact won our invitational 25th anniversary tournament that included the best teams from all around the nation, including wins against P.E, Eaglesvale, Lomagundi and St. Georges. Two significant, unforgettable events were, the 58-0 victory against P.E at home, our best 7’s rugby of the year and the

hard fought 18-5 victory against Churchill in their own backyard, who were tough opposition the whole year, but never once defeated us on the 7’s stage. The boys also managed to get into the final of the Peterhouse 7’s tournament with missing players due to Craven Week tournament in South Africa, proving our depth as a side, developing not only the seniors but the youngsters who will hold the Dominus Pastor flag high in the future. A special mention to the following for making the Zimbabwe 7’s Craven week squad Mark Wright, James Forrester and Preston Bryant (Captain Zimbabwe U18 Craven Week). Wilson Seremani was named the 7’s player of the year and produced some exciting phases of pace and agility throughout the season. It is my wish that 7’s will continue to grow in the College, and hopefully have some players from St. John’s represent at the Olympics one day. Thank you, it has been an honor.

Preston Bryant, Captain Sevens Rugby Team

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The match vs PE (a loss 3-5) is not registered as a match, for the following reasons: the referee, in the first half, took 15 minutes to award any form of penalty, scrum, short arm for St John’s, the try PE scored from an up and under in midfield had many PE players clearly off side and the second half of the match was 19 minutes, as opposed to the normal 30 minutes. There were two reasons at the start of the 2011 rugby season, which would suggest the Bullets were not likely to perform well in 2011, both points relate to the resources (i.e. players) available. The pool of players had been reduced. For the first time in St John’s College rugby history, the 2nd team coaches did not have access to Form 4 players, a major frustration. The Form 4 year of 2011, had many skilled and gifted rugby players, each possessing a solid and enthusiastic rugby character. None of these players were available for selection, due St John’s experimenting with developing an U17 team. Added to this, the existing pool of players from the Lower 6’s of 2011, did not have the best of reputations, having performed dismally as U16’s in 2009. However, by the end of the season, the upper and lower 6 players had performed very admirably. The solid and consistent performances of many of the Lower 6 players of 2011, put to death their poor reputation. Particularly impressive were Watson and Crous. These two backline players, when representing the Bullets were never fearful of confrontation. And their counter rucking, particularly Crous, was very impressive. Other notable performers from Lower Six were the solid front row performances of the props Grainger and Mavimba. Geyle too scrummed well and his line out throwing was very accurate, but he needs to be more committed to the rucks and mauls, if he is to be a class player. Mark Dunlop was also a Bullet champion throughout the season: reliable, steadfast and committed. He was conscientiously dedicated to ensuring he represented the heart and soul of a true Bullet – well done. The Bullets, on the whole, week in and week out, with the exception of the first match against St George’s, put in solid performances, particularly at home. The highlight of their season was actually a match they lost. After being thumped by a very impressive St George’s 2nd team in the first

Upper 6 |

Chitekuteku, Dube, Eastwood, Juru S,

Lindsay, Moorcroft, Muchatuta, Spencer, Swan J.

Lower 6 |

Crous, Dunlop, Grainger, Mavimba,

Geyle, Hofmann, Lyndsay-White, Robertson, Watson R

Form 4

Only played last match vs Peterhouse,

but were so impressive, these players deserve a mention: Burnett, Chadwick T, Rorke G, Sinclair C, Zwart B

encounter at the start of the season, in the return match, the Bullets, with 3 minutes remaining despite dominating possession and territory, were 14-15 behind and on the offensive. Unfortunately a ball was kicked forward by St George’s and a lucky bounce meant a St George’s player, against the run of play, went on to score and end any chance of us winning. The two matches between the two arch rivals was perhaps eight weeks apart, the tight result in the second match, clearly demonstrates how the 2nd XV had developed as the season progressed. Of the Upper 6 players: Swann, at the start of the season was tremendously committed and enthusiastic. His amazing try-saving tackle epitomized the commitment expected of a Bullet. Dube, raw to rugby at the start, developed quickly and his solid performances soon caught the eye of the 1st team coaches. Spencer was a dependable and solid rock in the scrum and is highly commended for his faithful and committed training at Moorzies – truly admirable, the physical effort he consistently demonstrated. Chitekuteku and Demblon led the Bullets superbly. Demblon executed his roles as a lock with steadfastness. Chitekuteku, although he struggled with form at the start of the season, endured and persevered and, to his credit, blossomed towards the end of the season – his individual performance in the second match vs St George’s was particularly impressive. Moorcroft, with his solid, honest, faithful temperament and nature could always be relied upon in the backline when representing the Bullets.

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Won

Played

2nd XV Rugby Season Stats: 8

In closing, a huge thank you is extended to Dave Kirkman. In a coaching capacity, he demonstrated the ability to: • identify talent • develop, nurture and mould a young player’s character and not just his skill level.

He achieved this in a quiet and soft spoken, yet strong, manner. It was a privilege working alongside him as he ‘added value’ to the Bullets culture and work ethic. He served the Bullets rugby side superbly in 2011. Of course, a massive thank you, again to the ‘character builder’ himself – Mr Ken Moores! Thanks also to Ryan Vickery and Andy Ferreira for their input too. For the glory of Dominus Pastor.

Mr J. Oldreive

(both to St George’s)

U17 Rugby This was the first year that St John’s created an U17 rugby team which gave us an extra year to develop our skills and team ethic as a rugby squad. The plan was that every school would create an U17 age group to increase competition and hopefully send an U17 Craven Week Rugby Team down to South Africa at the end of the season. Unfortunately this did not happen and we were forced to play against open age group rugby teams. Although these games were played against teams which consisted of 18 year olds, we worked very well together and showed an immense amount of courage and determination. These characteristics aided to our unbeaten season where we played Saint Georges 3rd team, Peterhouse 4th team, Falcon 4th team and Hellenic and Prince Edward’s make-up U17 teams. Our greatest victory was against Heritage 1st team after defeating them 36-0 with their whole school supporting them from the side-line. We also had a great win against Crediton Rugby Club U17’s from England, where we won 56-7. In the last three weeks of the rugby season, the U17 rugby side was released into the open

U17 Team

G Rorke, B Zwart, M Timba,

N Burnett, Henry Jocelyne, R Moult, R Wilson, C Sinclair, T Chadwick, R Gona, B Bunting-Galloway, T Parirentyatwa, S Coles, K Burger, Z Mayeka, D Lividatakus, B Vickery, S Mapeka, T Mutizwa, Hugh Jocelyne. Apologies if a name is missing.

age group and we were allowed to compete in an even higher level of rugby, with Rukudzo Gona obtaining a few starting caps for The Rams, and Nicholas Burnette having some game time as well. Bart Zwart, Tom Chadwick, Chad Sinclair, Sean Coles, Kurt Burger and Ryan Malt became regular 2nd team players. All of our success would not have been achieved without Mr. S McDonald and Mr. A Sakala, our coaches. They voluntarily invested many of their afternoon’s in coaching us and we are very grateful. Thank you to all those who helped and supported the U17 rugby squad throughout the season.

Tom Chadwick and Bart Zwart U16A Rugby This year’s team did the College proud. We won 8, drew 1 and lost 3. There is no comparison between that and last year’s. During our season we had many unfortunate injuries. However,

there was always a ‘B’ team player waiting for his chance to prove himself. Every player in the squad put their body on the line for the “ram” and that is why this age-group enjoyed its best season since

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Drew

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Cole Bond, Captain U16A Team

C. Bond, B. Naude, J. Kloppers, B. Crause, T. Gapare, P. Lee, N. Harris, W. Michell,

B. Passaportis, R. Zwart, S. Snater, P. Wamala, M. Mazambani, T. Chiweshe, T. Mahofa, D. Cruger, F. Lioga, B. Rust, E. Snyman, J. Burger, D. Nachipo, A. Atwell, M. Seremani, N. Madziva, C. Idensohn, H. Perry

U16B Rugby The season kicked off with a great win over a strong Peterhouse side. After narrow losses to St Georges and Prince Edward, the boys still held their heads

D. Agiotis, B. Passaportis, J. Burger, M. Berens, G. Ellis,

Won

Menk, D. MacDonald,

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H. Perry, D. Kennedy, F. Lioga, A.

Played

U16B Stats: U16B Rugby Team

J. Webb, D. Nachipo, A. Atwell, P. Gumbo, N. Madziva

We had a very talented group to young boys this year and it showed as we had good depth all the way through to the C team. The A team had some very close and tough matches. They narrowly beat Peterhouse, thanks to a great drop goal by Kyle Hopper. In the return game at Peterhouse, the boys played well and pulled off a great win to end the season. The first game against St Georges was a draw 15-15, but unfortunately in the return game St Georges were just too good for us. We also had close wins against Prince Edward and Falcon. The boys showed great character throughout the season, coming from behind in quite a few games to win it. The B team lost one game the whole term.

A. Menk, Captain Played

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There was a lot of talent in the B team and at any other school I’m sure quite a few of these players would have been playing in the A team. They played with heart and determination throughout the term, trying to prove themselves to be given a chance in the A team and some of them did get that chance. Those who did took it with both hands and gave it their all. It was a great pleasure to coach all of these boys and I’m sure they will do well in the rest of their rugby careers at St John’s.

A. Odendaal, Coach

U15 Statistics

U15 Rugby

up and went on to win 35-5 against a determined Churchill side. Throughout the season we had many forced combination changes and positional changes in the team due to injury, sickness and other commitments. Despite the various onsets, we were able to finish the season on a positive note beating Falcon thanks to a last minute penalty conversion from Keegan Bicknell, and a try saving tackle from Nyasha Madziva that won us the 2nd Churchill game. The boys played with great skill, spirit and determination.

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joining the College. This would never have been possible without our coaches, Mr. Martin, Mr. Elliot and Mr. Heuer, who put all their time and effort into making it a season to remember.

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U14 Rugby The 2011 season turned out to be a very tough one but equally rewarding. Having all been playing junior School rugby, we were not playing the style of rugby our coaches wanted us to play for the College. However with plenty of practice and hard work, we soon got in to this. We then started playing like St John’s College men, and whenever there was a problem in the team it was pointed out by our coaches and it was then dealt with. We were rewarded for all the hard work, with a tough 7-0 victory against a powerful St Georges side, and, for the first time in many years, a second, 15-0 victory against the same team. Disappointingly

Zimbabwe U14’s who played in the Coca Cola Craven week in Pretoria The Zimbabwe side had a very successful tour, winning two games and narrowly losing the other two. Angus Curtis, Captian Tanya Chambati Graham Shepard Peter Davies Thomas Reid Kevin Muleya Mufaro Mupisounga Nicolas Welch Cameron Harrison Matthew Hart Michael Balfour

we lost twice to Peterhouse and hopefully next year we will be able to turn this around. I would like to thank our coaches Mr. Squire and Mr. Madziwa for all their hard work and commitment to coaching us this term. The following boys were selected for various representative sides: Harare Schools Kundia Singano Matthew Hart Ryan Marry Tanya Chambati

U14 Match Results Mbare

65–0

Peterhouse

6–17

Saint Georges

7–0

Falcon

72–3

Churchill

23–21

Prince Edward

35–0

Lomagundi

19–7

Saint Georges

15–0

Churchill

19–21

Mbare

18–21

Peterhouse

0–17

Angus Curtis Captain

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Another exciting year has passed with our sides competing in the schools league .There have been a further 2 sides added to the first division so more matches for our A side who fared relatively well in spite of injuries and other sporting commitments .They came 3rd out of five sides with some closely fought matches . Our B side came 1st, the C side 3rd and the D side came second. Over the course of the year several of our boys represented Zimbabwe. Firstly in the all Africa junior squash championships held in South Africa in April where Alex Roscoe and Kudzai Mukaratirwa played in the Zimbabwe under 19 side for which they were both awarded National Colours and school Colours. Then again we had representatives in the Zimbabwe teams at various age groups playing in the Inter provincial

tournaments in South Africa. Bryn Turk and Dustin Sheehan at under 16 in Bloemfontein, Mayan Lad and Keyur Patel in the under 14 at Paarl. Alex Roscoe and Kudzai Mukaratirwa played in the Under 19 in Cape Town. Both Alex Roscoe and Kudzai Mukaratirwa have also been playing in the first league side for St. Johns’ club in the men’s section this year. This year we have seen the installation of a brand new floor and wall on court 3 and are expecting a new lighting system to iron out fluctuations in electricity supply. I would like to take this opportunity to than Mr. Richard Fox for all his input in administration and our captain Richard Robbie who managed to juggle all his other commitments to get our sides out.

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J. Roscoe Coach

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A. Roscoe, R. Robbie, Mr. J. Roscoe (Coach), P. Bryant, K. Mukaratirwa, B. Turk

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1st Team Tennis This year of being captain of the first team tennis has been an honour and a privilege. Our tennis team struggled in the beginning of the season, but with help from Mr Hovelmeier and thorough coaching from Mr Ant Fynn, we improved greatly as a team. Our main rivals were Prince Edward, as they were the reigning champions of the Mim Du Toit tournament. Their team was very strong. We fought for every point we could, but sadly lost in the end. Tennis is a sport that needs special attention, skill and hard work to play well and thus I would like to thank the boys for practicing hard and playing

with pride and determination. This was a tennis team to be remembered consisting of students from form 4 to upper 6. With two members of the team making U19 Zim and another four members making various Mashonaland teams. A special mention should be made to Gordon Lindsay for making U19 Zimbabwe in form 4 and upper 6. Thank you St Johns College for making the 1st Team 2011, Gordon Lindsay, Nickolas Bain, Leo Teede, Nat Robertson, Alex Breitenstein, Jason Murray, Riyaz Sachak, Reagan Hutchings and Max Trew, the tennis players we are today.

Leo Teede Captain 1st XI Tennis

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A. Breitenstein, N. Robertson, J. Murray, N. Naik

Front Row

N. Bain, G. Lindsay, Mr N. Hovelmeier (Manager), L. Teede (Captain), Mr A. Fynn (Coach), R. Sachak, M. Trew

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The tennis season started in the first term with great vigour. Having matches every Friday until half term, when our season was cut short due to athletics. We sported many wins, each individual becoming a more adept tennis player with each victory. After a busy rugby and hockey season in

second term, we returned to a very young second team; as many seniors aborted tennis to prepare for the daunting A’ level examinations. This however is positive as they will gain experience, lifting the level of our second team, hopefully into the first league in the near future.

Alex Demblon Captain U16A Tennis The team has been mostly stable this year, and thus has enjoyed much success this year. Brendon Naude was the U16 singles champion and Mandlenkosi Seremani and Shayar Solanki were the doubles champions, justifying their positions in the A team. They are to be commended for winning against players with higher rankings than them. The team members have been committed to the sport this year and have been a pleasure

to work with. The competition remains healthy, with frequent challenges of other members of the team. I am confident that these players will exhibit the same dedication and enthusiasm as they strive for places in the open group next year. The reserve players deserve special mention for their willingness to play when team members have been absent. Their commitment and enthusiasm is highly appreciated.

A Team Results

Term 3

14/01/11 21/01/11 28/01/11 04/02/11 11/02/11

Chisipite Prince Edward St Georges Hellenic Peterhouse

11-1 11-1 rained off 7-5 6-6

09/09/11 16/09/11 23/09/11 30/09/11 07/10/11

Term 1

Chisipite Prince Edward St Georges Hellenic Peterhouse

11-1 1-11 7-5 11-1 5-7

Lomagundi Gateway St Georges Watershed Chisipite

8-4 9-3 7-5 3-1 12-0

B Team Results

Term 1

Term 3

14/01/11 21/01/11 28/01/11 04/02/11 11/02/11

U16A Tennis

no match Gateway Eaglesvale no match Chisipite

12-0 rained off 8-4

09/09/11 16/09/11 23/09/11 30/09/11 07/10/11

Ryan Tenkrooden,

Brendon Naude, Eli Snyman, Gary King, Shayar Solanki, Michael Sylvester, Mandlenkosi Seremani, Daniel Cruger, Bryn Turk, Declan Kennedy, Jason Foulkes, Wade Michell, Matthew Berens, Shane Snater, Kurt Gibson, Robert Stewart, Nicholas Harris, Keegan Bicknell, George Madongonda

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Miss Claire Bewhay Mr Jason Heuer Coaches

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U15 Tennis U15A Tennis

R. Lock, N. Mahomed,

U15B Tennis

N. Bruk-Jackson, J. Harrison,

K. Vincent, E. Byrom,

T. Hodgson, K. MacKenzie,

W. Karim, S. Bellini-Martin,

L. Collins, F. Adam, M. Lad,

M. Ncube, K. Hopper,

J. Mehta, F. Latif, T. Majero

B. Palmer, A. Nyamuda

K. Patel, A. Tanner, P. Naik

The U15 Tennis Squad of 2011 consisted of a group of enthusiastic and talented boys. Competition in the A Team was quite fierce and many ladder challenges took place throughout the year. This team also had an unbeaten season in the Schools’ League. The B Team was more flexible, particularly in the lower half, which allowed for most players to have a chance to represent their school in a

match. Members of this team demonstrated high levels of commitment. Richard Lock won the U15 Singles Championship, and Luke Collins took the “B” Division title. Edward Byrom and Kyle Hopper won the Doubles Trophy, beating Kieran Vincent and James Harrison in a very closely-contested match. It has been a great pleasure working with this year group.

Ms L. Syme Mrs M. Kuhudzai Coaches U14 Tennis The U14 tennis team had a successful year maintaining an unbeaten record. The side was full of talented players who gave their all on the court. This side defeated every team convincingly. I hope

the team stays together for the duration of their high school career. A big thanks to Mr Chirewa and to Ms Hrusa for the enjoyable year of tennis.

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Volleyball Team Report Captain Vice Captain Coach Manager Vice-Coach Members

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Tarisai Mbudzi, U6 M. Chirinda, U6 A. Masiyiwa K. Muyedzwa W. Mukotsajera

S. Zimuto – U6, V. Bhunu – U6, W. Chitekuteku – U6, M. Chifamba – L6, B. Nuandoro – L6, M. Tutani – L6, N. Tutani – L6, D. Stangroom – L6,D. Stockwell – L6, G. Duplessis – L6

Results for 2011 Opposition

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Tafara 1

Tafara 2

Mabvuku

Danhiko

Oriel Boys High

St Georges

St Ignatius

Peter House

Churchhill

Seke 2 High

Seke 1 High

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This year started with many expectations for a better year as the previous one was not so successful. The team of 2011 exceeded everyone’s expectations and managed to win every single league game and was one of the only unbeaten team in the college. The season began on a high note as the new first team played a friendly game against St. Ignatius and won the game. 2nd term began with promising results as they played with confidence. This led to them qualifying for The Great Harare Tournament. This achievement was last profound by the college five years ago. Extra practices paid off as great improvement grew from this. Due to our efforts we managed to qualify to the quarter-finals, but we failed to proceed as we were kicked out by the team that won the tournament. Thanks must be given to our coach Mr. Masiyiwa for always giving the players the determination to persevere. Thanks should be given to Mr. & Mrs. Chifamba and Mr. & Mrs. Stangroom for their support of the team at home or away. Thanks as well to the other volleyball players for their attendance and effort with their games and practice, and supporting their 1st Team. The future of volleyball continues to grow as we expect higher or similar achievements in the years to come.

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B. Nyandoro, N. Tutani, M. Tutani, G. Du Plessis, D. Stockwell, T. Mombemuriwo, D. Stangroom, N. Chimbetete (Scorer) V. Bhunu, W. Chitekuteku (Vice Captain), T. Mbudzi (Captain), Mr. A. Masiyiwa (Coach), M. Chirinda (Vice Captain), S. Zimuto, M. Chifamba

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1st Team Boys’ Waterpolo This Year has been a particularly exciting one for waterpolo at St John’s College. The Season occupies both first and third term of each year. Due to the seasons being relatively short the Games and tournaments are scheduled closely together. As with the game itself this creates a short, intense and exciting time for everyone, namely our supporters, players and of course the ever-faithful parents. The first term Tournaments Included the Bruce Kennedy for Mashonaland schools and the Grant Tilley, which are both U/19 Tournaments. These always attract an intense atmosphere and provide good quality waterpolo. The St John’s First team claimed the Grant Tilley trophy after a very exciting weekend. St Georges managed to pull through and take back the Bruce Kennedy Trophy a few

weeks later after a very exciting Final match Vs St John’s. St Georges won the Tournament on Goal difference after the final score, which was 6 - 6. The U/17s participated in the Collins Cup, which is the National interschools’ Championship trophy. After a weekend of hard fought and interesting Waterpolo, St John’s was victorious, stating they would be the team to beat this 2011 season. The third term accommodates the main Tournaments for each particular age group which provides a platform for the national selectors to watch and choose the deserving players who make up the National Team that travels to South Africa annually. The U/15 Todd trophy was hosted by Chisipite school. Our team was strongly fancied to emerge victorious; however, we were outplayed

1st XI Boys’ Waterpolo

Back Row

J. Swan, G. Rorke, S. Marshall, B. Zwart, T. Chadwick

Front Row

M. Ross, J. Crowley, J. Forrester, M. Knox, O. Chadwick (Captain), D. Rorke, P. Jeans

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Neil Elliot, Manager

U/15 Todd Trophy

Won by CBC

U/17 Accorsi Cup

Won by St John’s College

U/19 Crusader Shield

Won by St Georges College

Chosen to represent Zimbabwe U15 to tour R.S.A

F. Bescotti A. Burnett T. Smith

Chosen to represent Zimbabwe U17 to tour R.S.A

T. Chadwick B. Zwart S. Marshall G. Rorke B. Fox T. Cochrane (Non-Travelling Reserve)

Chosen to represent Zimbabwe U19 to tour R.S.A

O. Chadwick M. Ross J. Crowley (Non-Travelling Reserve)

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two-day contest, it appeared we would emerge as the victors; however our chief rival St Georges managed to redeem themselves from having performed poorly leading up to the tournament. St Georges emerged as the victors after an incredibly intense match, which they won, beating St Johns in a penalty shoot out. St John’s Waterpolo is becoming one of the fastest growing sports at the College. The input from the Coaches Mark Knox (U/19s), Steve MacDonald (U/17s), Mike Craft (Girls), Neil Elliot (U15s) is really appreciated by the College, the Boys and particularly the Parents. A Huge Thank you to these coaches for all their effort and dedication to Waterpolo and more importantly for the investment and time they offer the boys.

by both Falcon and CBC. CBC returned home with the trophy. The U/17 Accorsi Cup offered a display of entertaining waterpolo by the up and coming, young rising stars of Zimbabwe Schoolboy Waterpolo. St John’s was the tournament favourites and throughout each game they displayed their ability to maintain their confidence and truly perform as a well disciplined team. St John’s rightly claimed the Accorsi Cup. Glynn Rorke also deservedly won the Drew Rosser trophy for the U/17 player of the tournament. The U/19 Crusader shield is the final tournament of the Season. Oliver Chadwick as the Captain has done a brilliant job in leading the Rams first team Waterpolo throughout the season. It was St John’s Privilege to host the annual tournaments 72nd event. For most of the

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“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is, knowing how to get along with people” Theodore Roosevelt

Waterpolo Captain’s Report The first term season didn’t really get off to a great start, perhaps because of the fact that we didn’t have any pre-season training, as some team members were on holiday until school started. Our team this year was made up of different characters, each complimenting each other, this I felt was a major factor that contributed to our success. The team was made up of 6 upper sixth students and 5 form 4 students, this obviously meaning that a lot of pressure was on the younger players to step up and fill the shoes of previous members of the first team. Our first match was the usual friendly on the first weekend, where we continued our trend of losing to St. Georges from the previous year. The next weekend was the Bruce Kennedy trophy, where we featured second, going down to St. Georges and beating Lomagundi, who were the only teams in this particular tournament. The following weekend, we had another friendly match against St. Georges, where we turned the tables and came out victorious against our bitter rivals: beating them 5-4. This was the turning point of our whole year and gave the team confidence to take on the rest of the season. The next weekend we travelled down to CBC to play in the Authur Gower memorial trophy, having beaten St. Georges the previous weekend, securing a win was clearly in sight. We went on to beat Falcon, CBC, Lomagundi, Petra and drew to St. Georges 5-5, this meant that the winner of the trophy would depend on goal difference and sadly we placed 2nd, by one goal! By now our hunger to win a tournament was in abundance and the final trophy of the season, the well-known Grant Tilley (Buffalo head) was the next weekend, at St. John’s. We trained hard throughout the week and had our minds focussed in bringing the Buffalo head home. Because of this training, we went into this tournament with the right attitude and beat Lomagundi and CBC but sadly went down to Falcon on the first day, which meant that we would meet St. Georges in the semi-finals on the second day. On the second day we managed to defeat St. Georges 7-4 and thouroughly displayed our desire to win the Buffalo head. Therefore we met Falcon in the final, determined to win, the boys played with great heart and commitment as a result of this we won 7-4. After a memorable weekend of waterpolo we

won the Buffalo head and took great pride in doing so. This drew the end of our first season and left great aspirations for the third term. With these great aspirations, we decided pre-season training was very necessary and started training 3 weeks before season started, doing fitness only for the first two weeks. In the week before season started, we had the privilege of being trained by the captain of the South Africa women’s Waterpolo team and greatly benefitted from learning professional skills to improve both our individual and team games. Our first weekend of matches, were two friendly’s against Lomagundi, where we won 6-4 and St. Georges where we lost 7-4. This weekend we made a new addition to our team and through commitment and a great work ethic, one more form four was added to our team. But, it was evident that we needed to train harder and be more focussed at trainings. So, with the introduction of a fitness coach, Mr. Anton Milner who took care of all of our fitness needs this focus was again achieved. We were then invited to go down to Falcon to play in an invitational tournament where we played CBC and won 9-6, St. Georges and won 9-4, and Falcon and won 7-6 in a closely contested game. Sadly there was no silverware that we could add to our Buffalo head. The following weekend, one fixture was organised against St. Georges and we were rewarded for our hard training and determination, managing to beat them 12- 5 which was most definitely one of the highlights of our year. However, the whole waterpolo year relied on one trophy and one trophy only, it is known as the Crusader shield, that has been around for 74 years. Our first game was against Lomagundi, where we managed to win 15-7. Our second game of the tournament was probably the hardest game of the tournament, against St. Georges who were determined to get their revenge on their loss in the previous week. This very closely contested game went into extra time and then progressed into penalty shoot outs where, sadly, we lost by one goal in these shoot outs. We had to put the loss behind us and took on our next opponent, being CBC who we defeated 10-3. Our final game as the team of 2011 was against Falcon, where we won 10-9 in extra time. Sadly we placed second to St.

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a team and provided us with humour and therefore many laughs, making the season one that none of us will ever forget. Thank-you Buggers. Mr. Elliot also played a crucial role in setting up fixtures and ensuring that there were officials for all of our games, he also provided endless encouragement and support throughout the year. Thank you Mr. Elliot. Another big thank you goes out to all the parents that were so involved in making weekends of waterpolo possible and providing such a great atmosphere at our home matches. Thank you parents for your endless support. And thank you to both Mr. Fuller and Mr. Annandale for all your support that you gave us- it means a lot to have the headmaster present at our fixtures. Lastly, I would like to wish the team of 2012 all the best for their up-coming season/year.

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Oliver Chadwick Captain

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Georges in the overall standings of the tournament. Three of our players made Zimbabwe schools u19, Marc Ross, Oliver Chadwick and James Crowley (who was a non-travelling reserve). This year was a very special one, and an outstanding learning experience where we learnt that winning isn’t the only thing and learnt how to lose which is very, very important in sport as you can’t win all the time. One of our biggest lessons, and the teams strength, was the fact that we were so close as a team and worked together and got along with each-other really well. We learned that “The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is, knowing how to get along with people”- Theodore Roosevelt Our success and existence as a team would not have been possible without the endless hours of our coach Mr. Mark Knox (Buggers) took out of his day to coach us. Buggers brought us together as

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Upper 6 James Crowley James Forrester (Vice Captain) Marc Ross Oliver Chadwick (Captain) Daniel Rorke Phillip Jeans Form 4 Thomas Chadwick Bart Zwart Justin Swan Glynne Rorke Sloane Marshall Niall Crowley

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U15 Waterpolo The 3rd Term waterpolo season started a week early with training every day. Thanks to the coaches for giving up their time to give us a head start on our fitness and ball skills. The team has come together nicely, with all the team members showing a great deal of dedication. We have all grown in our skills and confidence as the term has gone on. Friday games have been wonderfully supported by all the parents, and I thank them for the delicious teas that are always

provided when required. Out of the five games we have played so far, we have only lost one definitely something to be proud of as we have come up against some stiff competition. We all look forward to participating in the Todd Trophy in October and hope that our game continues to improve as the year goes on. I wish the team all the very best of luck for the rest of their waterpolo career. I know that if we all keep training hard we will have a successful polo year.

Nicholas Burger, Captain Girls’ Waterpolo As with the previous years the start of 2011 brought nothing new for the Girls Water Polo side. Carrying forward one lonely player from the side of 2010 the year ahead looked very dull and unattractive.

1st XI Girls’ Waterpolo

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A. Hogg, T. Wallace

Front Row

F. Brookes, A. Dixon, M. Craft (Coach), K. Craft (Captain), J. Byrom

However with the true St Johns College spirit and determination the Team pulled itself together. First term results were disheartening as the College’s reputation and expectation landed

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Tara Wallace Alex Hogg Jess Byrom Alex Dixon Fiona Brooke Kristie Craft (St John’s College) Jordan Clipstone Natasha Lawson Natasha Rusch Mikayla Quinlyn Kelly Smith (Hellenic International Academy)

at the South African Provincial Championships. Tara Wallace, Alex Hogg and Kristie Craft. From the team of 2011 our sincere thanks to Mike Craft for his time and encouragement throughout the year in coaching and directing the side. To my fellow team members of 2011 thank you all for your hard efforts, humour and commitment. For the Team of 2012 we wish you all the very best as you fly the flag for the St Johns College Girls in their final year. Remembering a quote from Wayne Gretzky “You are guaranteed to miss 100% of the shots you do not take” So stand up, commit and be proud of the opportunity the game has to offer. Girls’ Waterpolo Members

heavily onto the new side, with all our games going in the favour of the opposing sides. Chisipite as always dominated the pool, with Girls College from Bulawayo with a more experienced side also pushing St Johns aside. Despite the hardships and losses of the first term the team managed to remain confident and committed and third term we invited girls from the Hellenic International Academy to join the side. This helped tremendously with numbers, but experience and exposure to 1st Team water polo lacked. With some sincere commitment, training and team spirit the side slowly pulled back up the ladder and started to shake the Chisipite tree. At the final tournament of the year , St Johns beat an invitational side , beat Girls College and took on Chisipite head to head in the final for the Players Trophy. With a narrow loss of 4 :1. So a wonderful way to close the season. As always for the girls who participated, being part of the Team , carrying the reputation and colours of the College is a wonderful experience. The lessons of depending on others, being accountable to one another are never wasted and can only assist everyone in their journey along the path of Life. Congratulations must go to the three girls who were selected to represent the Zimbabwe U19 Girls side for Tour to Cape Town in December

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Swimming Overall, this has been another good year for the College’s swimming team: winning all but one gala on the way to the final Interschool’s Gala. SJC swimming had one goal in mind. To win the Interschool’s Gala for the first time in 5 years. The boys gave all their best, but despite this we missed the Interschool’s trophy by 7 points, coming second. Nonetheless, it is still reassuring to know that this was a very close competition. I would like to commend all of the boys who took part and I encourage them to go on to win the trophy next year. Sadly, there is no next year for me or the rest of u6 2011. We wish the team all the best for the years to come.

Mashonaland Level 1 Swimmers

Fed Bescotti

Mashonaland Level 2 Swimmers

Richard Welsh Tom Hill Johan Kloppers Aidan Onoratti Aiden Burnett Ryan Hounsel

Zimbabwe Level 3 Swimmers

Nick Burnett Sloane Marshall Chad Idenson Tom Reid

Zimbabwe CANA Zones 3&4 Invitational Swimmers

Richard Welsh Johan Kloppers Chad Idenson Tom Reid Aidan Onoratti Ryan Hounsel

Zimbabwe All–Africa Swimmers

Nick Burnett Sloane Marshall

I am very proud to say that there were a number of boys who represented the following provincial and national sides. Congratulations go out to all of the below-mentioned swimmers. Finally, I would like to extend my thanks to Mrs Conradie and Mrs Sainsbury for all their encouragement and support. These are the two ladies who deserve most of the credit. Without them, we would be lost. Thanks also go out to Mrs Byrom and Mrs Crause, who trained us whilst Mrs Sainsbury was unable to.

Richard Welsh, Captain

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Front T. Chadwick G. Rorke B. Zwart J. Crowley Mrs S. Conradie R. Welsh (Captain) O. Chadwick M. Ross N. Burnett S. Marshall

Back F. Bescotti J. Kloppers B. Crause P. Lee C. Idensohn B. Michell J. Agiotis T. Hill N. Crowley A. Burnett M. Lad

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Soccer 2011 marked the 1st year that Soccer has been played at St John’s College. The team was coached by Mr. Heuer, who managed to bring together a side of keen individuals, giving them a chance to play a game that they love so much but never had the chance to in their school colours. There was much anxiety initially as to whether this would work out or not, but I’m sure that every individual who was privileged enough to take part in this pioneering experience is extremely grateful for this opportunity. Not only was it a chance for students to showcase their talents and grow as players, it was also a chance for friendships to be created and people to grow in an intense, but at the same time, friendly environment.

The highlight of the year had to be the Harare International School under 19 tournament. Not only was this on the first weekend of the term but it was the first full soccer tournament that St John’s College had ever participated in. The team played well throughout the competition and were rewarded for their efforts with the trophy, leaving as champions. I would like to thank Mr. Heuer as well as each and every student who attended training sessions this year. I know very well that there are many young and eager players still left in the school and I have no doubt in my mind that you will all do your best to help this sport further grow in years to come. I feel so privileged to have had this honour to be your captain. Thank you.

Libalele Mwamuka Captain Soccer Team

Back Row

T. Kasukuwere, N. Mbiba, M. Seremani

Front Row

T. Mutizwa, S. Mushauri, T. Mutendadzamera (Vice-Captain), Mr J. Heuer (Coach), L. Mwamuka (Captain), Z. Wazir, M. Timba

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Back: S. Crause (Angling), B. Zwart (Waterpolo), T. Chadwick (Waterpolo), B. DuPreez (Hockey), D. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donoghue (Angling), T. Smith (Golf), S. Marshall (Swimming), N. Burnett (Swimming), 4th:

G. King (Cricket), D. Bell (Hockey/Cricket), A. Macleod (Hockey/Cricket) , M. Lake(Cricket), A. Breitenstein (Hockey), B. Thomas( Moto X), B. Michell (Triathlon), M. Wright (Rugby), N. Bain

3rd:

R.Zwart (Show-Jumping), B. Fox (Waterpolo), S. Snater (Cricket), J. Murray (Hockey), S. DuPreez(Hockey), D. Smith, T. Parirenyatwa (Basketball), T. Washaya (Athletics),

2nd:

R. Naik (Hockey), M. Ross (Waterpolo), T. Mugabe (Basketball), P. Bryant (Rugby), S. Dube (Basketball), A. Machado (Hockey), J. Smallbones (Rugby), J. Forrester (Rugby),

Front:

K. Muleya (Rugby), M. Mpisaunga (Rugby), A. Chikanda (Tennis), T. Chambati (Rugby), P. Davis (Rugby), R. Murray (Rugby), M. Hart (Rugby), M. Balfour (Rugby), A. Curtis (Rugby),

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Zimbabwe National Representatives

S. Mapeka (Basketball), B. Moyo (Basketball), R. Gona (Basketball), J. Kloppers (Swimming) (Hockey), F. Swan (Moto X), A. Perlman(Refereeing) , B. Follett-Smith (Golf), C. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Riordan (Swimming), K. Mukaritirwa (Squash) , A. Roscoe (Squash), B. Crause (Angling), C. Idenson (Swimming) W. Seremani (Rugby), M. Chirinda (Debating), K. Merrington(Rugby), G. Lindsay(Tennis), L. Teede (Rugby), T. Mbudzi (Debating), B. Turk (Squash), H. Perry (Moto X), Z. Ismail (Hockey) D. Rorke (Rugby), A. Wilkinson (Rugby), R. Robbie (Cricket/Hockey), S. Chisholm (Hockey), O. Chadwick (Waterpolo), A. Breytenbach (Athletics), P. Jeans (Waterpolo), T. Chitambira (Athletics) T. Reid (Rugby/Swimming), K. Patel (Squash), H. Silk (Moto X), B. Perry (Moto X), W. Swan (MotoX), G. Shephard (Rugby), C. Harrison (Rugby), N. Welch (Rugby)

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1st Team Captains & School Leaders Back M. Harrison (Sound Engineering) M. Wazara (Music) B-J. Deale (First Aid) B. Masuku (Library) J. Forrester (Rugby Sevens) R. Robbie (Squash, Hockey, Cricket) L. Teede (Tennis) R. Smith (Head of Matopos) L. Mwamukwa (Soccer) R. Lioga (Head of Nyanga) P. Jeans (Rugby) R. Chambati (President of Interact) S. Naik (Bridge) Middle C. Boardman (Drum Major) A. Zvinavashe (Volleyball) S. Foulkes (Pipe Major) O. Chadwick (Deputy Headboy, Head of Vumba, Waterpolo) Mr R. Fuller V. Muchatuta (Headboy) Mr. W. Annandale P. Bryant (Deputy Headboy, Sevens Rugby, President of Toastmasters) K. Mutembwa (Girls Hockey) B. Pasipanodya (Music) M. Chirinda (President of Debating Society) N. Chakanetsa (Choir) S. Purcell-Gilpin (IB Leader) M. Goss (IB Leader) Front B. Follett-Smith (Golf) B. Chumuka (Chess) T. Mbudzi (Volleyball) S. Zimutu (Ethno Music) A. Machado (Basketball) R. Naik (Black Blazer) A. Breytenbach (Choir) R. Welsh (Swimming) M. Eastwood (Athletics)

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