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Welcome to the September edition of the College Classifieds, our digital publication that offers our community the opportunity to advertise their wares and services with fellow Johannians.

Welcome to the 109th annual St John's College Gaudy Day.

The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown has necessitated a reimagination of a traditional Gaudy Day, and so we present you with our first-ever Virtual Gaudy Day Experience.

Welcome to the August edition of the College Classifieds, our digital publication that offers our community the opportunity to advertise their wares and services with fellow Johannians.

Revil John Mason (OJ Thomson 1946) has died at the age of 91 years, scarcely a year after receiving the Golden Eagle Award on Gaudy Day in 2019.

As we celebrate Women's Day, we share the history behind the iconic South African women who marched to the Union Buildings on 9 August 1956 to present a petition against the carrying of passes by womento then Prime Minister JG Strijdom.

Welcome to the July edition of the College Classifieds, our digital publication that offers our community the opportunity to advertise their wares and services with fellow Johannians.

Today we stand in solidarity in remembering the deaths of Collins Khosa, Petrus Miggels and Sibusiso Amos.

St John's College stands ready to receive students and staff back onto Campus in a safe, structured and phased manner.

St John’s College hosted the second episode in our #TogetherApart series, the Winter Sports Webinar where we gained insight into school sport from some of the College's highly-qualified and experienced coaches..

Prof Martin Veller, Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Wits University, talks to us about the extraordinary times the pandemic has brought on and the effects on those in our education systems.

God bless Africa, Guide our leaders, Guard her children, And give her peace. Amen

In 1920, St John’s College was still in its infancy. The school had been established in 1898 as a parish school of St Mary’s Anglican Church in downtown Johannesburg. Soon afterwards, the social upheaval caused by the Anglo-Boer South African War – as well as the deportation of the school’s headmaster by the Boer authorities – had necessitated the closure of the school for some eighteen months.