HILLCREST High School celebrated the achievements of its senior pupils at a senior awards evening last week .
Guest speaker, Matthew Willman, freelance documentary photographer and commissioned photographer to the Nelson Mandela Trust, delighted his audience with snippets from his illustrious career as well as the moving story of his own life journey.
Sinmiloluwa Onyebilanma is this year’s Dux of the school, receiving nine academic awards, followed by Thembelihle Magutshwa, Proxime Accesit Dux and Priyanka Sivlal who placed third in Grade 12. All three pupils were awarded with honours cum laude.
Bianca Westwood, Bathandekile Ntuli, Guy Salomon and Caylin Sprighton were also awarded honours cum laude.
This year’s best all-round sportsman is Robin Smith, best senior all-round sportswoman is Vanessa Atkinson, and the trophy for excellence in a sport not offered by the school is Bradley Fenton, motocross champion and winner of the 2013 FIM Motocross of African Nations Intercontinental event.
