MARITZBURG COLLEGE’S LEADERSHIP FOR 2024
The culmination and highlight of the announcement of Maritzburg College’s 2024 pupil leadership ceremony, is the Passing of the Drum. Last week, outgoing Head Prefect Sasha Kadira placed a personal message of support in the old drum, and handed the custodianship of the drum to Cody Robinson, the 2024 Head Prefect, as a symbol of the passing of this authority.
Last week, Maritzburg College held the 12th annual Passing of the Drum Ceremony on its campus. This treasured ceremony, first introduced in 2012, celebrates the appointment of the school’s pupil leadership for the next year. These include the head and deputy head prefects, prefects, shouting captains, and house leaders.
To be appointed as a College Prefect is one of the highest honours that the school can bestow upon a pupil, and along with this honour, comes accountability and responsibility.
College appoints five senior prefects to lead the team. They are Head Prefect for 2024, Cody Robinson, Senior Deputy Head Prefect, Phiwayinko Kubheka, and Deputy Head Prefects, Inam Jikijo, Ipeleng Mosupye, and James Slevin.
College’s Shouting Captains fulfil a unique role at the school, with its emphasis on spirit and camaraderie. Voted for by their peers, each year it is their job to inspire and cajole the troops on Basher Ridge, on Pape’s and elsewhere, to get behind the College men. Congratulations to Noah Jackson, Lachlann Johnstone and Mvano Rubuluza.
The school also appointed its house leaders, house captains and vice captains for the 10 day houses. These young men are given various portfolios and assist the housemaster and staff in running the houses on a daily basis.
The five Border prefects who lead each of the boarding houses at College provide support to the boarder masters and boarder staff necessary for what is the largest public school boarding establishment in the country, with its own particular culture and traditions. It is their job to ensure a happy, efficient, and disciplined home for our 470 boarders.
Congratulations go to James Slevin (Senior Boarder Prefect and Head of Clark House), Julian Konigkramer (Head of Nathan House), Noah Jackson (Head of Hudson House),
Jake Jansen (Head of Shepstone House) and Struan Oosthuizen (Head of Elliott House).
The culmination and highlight of the ceremony is the Passing of the Drum from our outgoing Head Prefect to the new incumbent, symbolising the passing of authority from the outgoing leadership of 2023 to the incoming leaders of 2024.
For many years it is the tradition that an outgoing College head prefect places a written message of support to his successor in the old drum.
While this long-established tradition continues, the original old Thrash Drum that was used is now housed in a permanent case on display in the Victoria Hall, and a side-drum from the old school cadet band is used to symbolise the passing of authority from the prefects of 2023 to the prefects of 2024.
At the 2023 ceremony, outgoing Head Prefect Sasha Kadira placed a personal message of support in the old drum, and handed the custodianship of the drum to Cody Robinson, the 2024 Head Prefect.