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About the
DHS Foundation
We live in a country in which access to quality education, and the opportunity to attend a school such as Durban High School is an honour and a privilege.
Our informative years will no doubt always stir memories for us. Each one of us that attended school at 255 St Thomas Road will have carried experiences, and the privileged education we received, into our adulthood. In a modern world where the gap between the “haves” and the “have nots” has continually widened globally over the past three decades, the relevance of an exceptional state school in Africa has never been greater. Most of the school’s old boys went into a world, which post the Great War, gave more equal opportunities across the classes – and prospered. It is just as important a century later for young people with the potential to be given an opportunity to achieve their potential.
The Foundation has been instrumental in maintaining and improving the school facilities, and in establishing bursaries to enable deserving learners to attend DHS who would otherwise not have had the means to do so. As a result of these efforts, DHS maintains its preeminent position as one of the top schools in the country, based on its academic, sporting, extra mural, cultural and other accomplishments.
DHS now offers the Cambridge learning system, as well as an extension learning programme, nonpareil. This makes DHS unique amongst the other leading government schools and private schools is Kwa-Zulu Natal & South Africa.
Among the improvements made to the school by various Old Boys and the Foundation:
• the refurbishment of Blackmore House,
• a world class music centre which is Trinity Internationally accredited,
• the revamping of the Seabrooke Theatre,
• the establishment of the Victor Daitz Mathematics and Science facility,
• the upgrade of our Media Centre as well as the DHS Museum,
• the Cambridge Academy, and
• the Indoor Cricket Centre.
• a hockey AstroTurf,
• an Old Boys Pavili
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13 November 2017 FNB
Sizwe Nxedlana, formerly FNB Chief Economist.
Sizwe nxedlana biography of michael
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BIG ISSUES AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES
There are two lessons we can take forward from 2020 and apply to 2021: That opportunities continue to exist in the midst of uncertainty, and that unpredictability will be with us all for some time to come. The new headlines from the first weeks of this year bear testame nt to this, with Covid-19 containment measures and the associated global economic crisis competing for attention with eye-opening world events from vaccine nationalism to military coups, unprecedented presidential censures, disputed elections and feeding frenzies from retail investors.
Against this backdrop, we turn to our Chief Investment Officer Patrice Rassou to put some perspective on the year past and to highlight the big issues facing world markets in 2021.
Of course, relevant and sound advice remain the cornerstone of our offering, which is why we also include an analysis of the recent tax law changes in South Africa, specifically with regards to the country's policy around 'loop structures'. Many of these current changes are linked to government's focus on overhauling the current exchange control environment into a capital flow management system. Our focus is on what these changes mean for you?
In terms of opportunities, we have included an interesting article for Africafocused investors which explores the growing interest in alternative assets and the opportunities present on the continent. Alternative investments across Africa are, traditionally, the domain of investment platforms such asventure capital, private equity or even angel investing, but we are also seeing pension funds edging into this space - particularly into investments such as renewable energy and infrastructure. It is also becoming clear that the roll out of digital infrastructure is another area of potential in an increasingly techfocused future.
In keeping with the new global shift towards digital and remote solutions, we've taken .