The DHS Prefect system dates back to the first few years of the school, over 140 years ago.

Prefects fulfill a vital role at the school: they act as role-models to the rest of the learner body, they provide leadership to the boys, and they help maintain the ethos and traditions of Durban High School… as well as helping to maintain discipline in a large school in which members of staff cannot be everywhere at once!

There is a rigorous selection procedure for prefectship. To qualify for consideration, the boys must have completed their community service in Grades 8,9,10 and 11, and must have been appointed as mentors in their Grade 11 year. Every applicant is interviewed by a panel of 5 senior staff. Every boy in the school votes for the prefects of their choice. Every member of staff indicates whether they strongly support, are neutral, or strongly disapprove of every candidate on the list, providing reasons for their choice. All of this information is out together into a selection matrix, and the Prefect selection panel then makes their choices.

To encourage those boys who were close but did not make the final cut, it is traditional for the school to appoint 1 or 2 more prefects at the end of Grade 11, and at the end of the first term of Grade 12.

The body consists of 1 Head Prefect, 1 deputy Prefect and between 23 and 28 prefects. At DHS we have been very fortunate to have Head Prefects of outstanding caliber over the last few years… Thabani Sibiya, Steven Gill and Matthew Lane. The Head Prefect for 2009 is Dillan Bennet: a young man who continues this tradition of excellence.

Prefects for 2012

Head Prefect: Damian Perkins
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Deputy Heads:

• Andrew Kellner
• Nkqubela Arosi

Prefects:

• Mogamat Booley
• Byron Bromham
• Cameron Donkin
• Vikash Gopal
• Jevil Govan
• Darren Govender
• Mitchell Hayes
• Wesley Kusada
• Aatish Maharaj
• Mathew Jo Mathew
• Pedro Miguel
• Gilmore Munro
• Brenton Naicker
• Tremayne Naidoo
• Meegashen Narainsamy
• Jean-Pierre Pieterse
• Kreesan Pillay
• Matthew Plumstead
• S'mangaliso Sibisi
• Shivar Sobrun
• Aco Stulic