St John's Bridge Nursery School hosted the ISASA Ignite ECD Symposium on Saturday, 18 July 2026, welcoming Early Childhood Development practitioners from across the region.

St John's welcomed coaches from across the game for the inaugural Schools Basketball Coaches Conference, a first step toward shaping the future of school basketball together.

Michael George Lyme 'Gus' Mills (Alston 1963), who died on 12 July 2026, was one of Africa's foremost authorities on wild carnivores. His four decades of fieldwork in the Kalahari and Kruger reshaped how South Africa's national parks are managed, and his writing and photography brought that work to a far wider audience than science alone could reach. An Old Johannian of the class of 1963, he was awarded the College's Golden Eagle Award in 2023.