Pretoria Boys’ is a distinguished high school for boys located in Brooklyn, Tshwane. It has more than 100 years of rich history and places as one of the most iconic schools of South Africa. Its neoclassical red-brick style main school buildings has earned provincial heritage status. The campus includes sporting and recreational facilities as well as three boarding houses.
The school was originally known as Staats Model School, built in 1897. It was not in use for various years due to the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War (South African War) in 1899. Throughout its history, Pretoria Boys’ has maintained its prestigious image and has produced an array of notable alumni, including two Nobel Prize laureates, several members of parliament, as well as prominent intellectuals and sportsmen.
Pretoria Boys' High School has its origins in the Staatsmodelskool, built by the government of the South African Republic in the 1880s on th...
The obvious approach to the siting of the new Pretoria High School in the 1800s would have been to place the building on the level terrain a...
Pretoria Boys' High School has in fact been playing rugby since its earliest days, unlike its Johannesburg counterparts where soccer was the...
Pretoria Boys’ High School prides itself on producing well-balanced all-rounders, and proof of this can point to Etienne de Villiers, a Rh...