Academic Achievers
ACADEMICS
Hermanus High School is particularly proud of its top academic achievers. 368 matriculation candidates obtained A-aggregates during the past seventy five years.
Six of these pupils were respectively placed first, second and fourth on the Cape Senior Certificate Merit List (1942-1994):
Mervyn Gotsman 1951: 2nd
Peter Janson 1959: 1st
Louise Voigt 1961: 4th
Jacques Grové 1991: 4th
Danie Coetzee 1994: 1st
Bjorn Ladwig 1994: 2nd
while the last four were placed on the Western Cape Senior Certificate Merit List
(1995-2016)
Tarryn Rudnick 2007: 4th
Nita Wiegman 2012: 1st in Western Cape ad 2nd in South Africa
Conrad Strydom 2016: 1st in Western Cape and 1st in South Africa
Sian Bourdin 2016: included in the Western Cape Education Department Merit List