Media Release
Minister of Education Debbie Schäfer
Western Cape

11 January, 2018


Western Cape Education Department
National Senior Certificate Examinations 2017

Awards to learners

Learners will receive awards for excellence in subject performance, excellence despite barriers to learning, special ministerial awards and for the top 50 positions in the province.

All learners will receive a monetary award and a certificate.

Category: Learner Subject Awards

In this category, one award is handed to the candidate with the highest mark in the designated subjects. Each learner will receive R 6 000 and a certificate.

Subject Description Name Centre Name Final Mark
Accounting Kiran Rashid Abbas Herschel Girls School 300
Accounting Rita Elise Van Der Walt Hoër Meisieskool Bloemhof 300
Accounting Philip Visage Hugenote Hoërskool 300
Afrikaans Home Language Anri Matthee Hoërskool Overberg 297.8
Computer Applications Technology Christelle Herbst York High School 293.9
English Home Language Christopher Aubin Bishops Diocesan College 291.8
Engineering Graphics and Design Erin Michael Solomon Rondebosch Boys' High School 298.9
Information Technology Nathan Matthew Wylie Wynberg Boys' High School 298.5
Mathematics Erin Michael Solomon Rondebosch Boys' High School 299.7
Physical Sciences Tererai Muchabaiwa Malibu High School 300
Physical Sciences Erin Michael Solomon Rondebosch Boys' High School 300
Physical Sciences Matthys Louis Carstens Hoërskool Durbanville 300
Isixhosa Home Language Likhona Nosiphe Qazisa Centre of Science & Technology 269.6

Category: Excellence Despite Barriers to Learning

In this category, learners will receive R10 000 and a certificate.

This is awarded to a maximum of two candidates with special education needs who obtained the highest marks in their best six subjects that fulfil the requirements for the award of a national senior certificate. (excluding life orientation).

Centre Name Names
Hoërskool Swartland Pieter Jans Durr
Jan Krielskool Angelique Lettitia O'Connell

Category: Special Ministerial Award

This Special Ministerial Award goes to two candidates. They will both receive R10 000, a certificate and an electronic tablet.

Centre Name Names
Scottsdene High School Benedict Mafooa Khobotle
Westerford High School Genevieve Lee Heathcote Marks

Category : Excellence In Academic Achievement

In this category, all Learners Will Receive R10 000 And A Certificate.

This is awarded to the top 50 candidates according to the marks obtained in their best six subjects that fulfil the requirements for the award of a national senior certificate (two languages, mathematics and three other subjects excluding life orientation). Candidates are also drawn from schools within the context of study.

The names are combined and presented according to surnames, except for the top 3 candidates.

Top three candidates
  Centre Name Names
1. Hoërskool Bellville Janke van Dyk
2. Hoërskool Durbanville Matthys Louis Carstens
3. Rondebosch Boys' High School Erin Michael Solomon

  Centre Name Names
 Herschel Girls' SchoolKiran Rashid Abbas
 South Peninsula High SchoolHuda Adams
 Rylands High SchoolShazia Amoo
 Bishops Diocesan CollegeChristopher Aubin
 Hoërskool SwartlandDone Botha
 Drostdy Technical High SchoolAstrid Adihl Bothman
 Bishops Diocesan CollegeFelix Thomas Alexander Burt
 Westerford High SchoolLeila Chin
 Gansbaai AcademiaLlewellyn Peter Davids
 Hoërskool Gimnasium (Paarl)Chrizelle Marinda du Plessis
 Manzomthombo Secondary SchoolKamva Aron Dubula
 Fish Hoek High SchoolAngela Frances Euston-Brown
 Springfield Convent of the Holy RosaryCandice Kim Ewing
 Springfield Convent of the Holy RosaryElizabeth Pamela Fairall
 Hoërskool BellvilleEugene Egbert Fouche
 Livingstone High SchoolMeeka-El Hendricks
 Fairbairn CollegeJoshua Heyns
 Rondebosch Boys' High SchoolMatthew Horrigan
 Claremont High SchoolAmeera Karriem
 Bishops Diocesan CollegeKwangbem Ko
 Claremont High SchoolSagel Julia Kundieko
 Sinethemba Secondary SchoolBongela Manzi
 Hoërskool LangenhovenLize Mari Marais
 Spine Road High SchoolLaeeqa Martin
 South Peninsula High SchoolLuqmaan Mathee
 Hoërskool OverbergAnri Matthee
 Rylands High SchoolZainab Mayet
 Vuyiseka Secondary SchoolSiyole Mayongo
 Phandulwazi High SchoolNkosazana Mcaciso
 Herschel Girls' SchoolAnna Illing Midgley
 Hoërskool OuteniquaEmma Alida Nel
 Claremont High SchoolZakiyyah Petersen
 Belgravia High SchoolThaakirah Phillips
 Parel Vallei High SchoolChanel Roos
 Hoër Meisieskool BloemhofGabby Smuts
 Parel Vallei High SchoolJuan Hermanus Swanepoel
 Hoërskool OuteniquaTiaan Swart
 Mondale High SchoolYazeed Tyman
 Cape Academy for Mathematics, Science and TechnologyAzraa Vally
 Hoër Meisieskool BloemhofRita Elise van der Walt
 Hoërskool StellenbergJacques Ernst van Schalkwyk
 Westerford High SchoolJoshua Ze Ev von Zeil Singer
 Paul Roos GimnasiumWolfgang Sebastian Wild
 Belgravia High SchoolYuomnaWilliams
 Westerford High SchoolLucy May Wills
 Wynberg Boys' High SchoolNathan Matthew Wylie
 Vuyiseka Secondary SchoolMpumelelo Yeko


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