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Stories, events and our digital newspaper. Posts from our old blog (2020 to 2024) now live here too.
March 2026 / Newspaper
Going for a spin at Gold Reef City
Enter The Anaconda. Enter The Jozi Express. Enter The Tornado, The Mermaid, The Maverick, The Golden Loop and The Storm Chaser: rides designed to evoke fear, nerves and a lot of laughter.
March 2026 / Newspaper
Twelve years strong: the CANSA Shavathon
A new year, a new CANSA Shavathon: our biggest annual charity event, and one that never seems to go out of style.
July 2025 / Newspaper
Touch of greatness: Abby shines in Ireland
Representing South Africa with heart and hustle, Abby brought her A-game to the Youth Atlantic Touch Rugby Tour in Ireland.
May 2025 / Newspaper
An eye on our 2025 golf day
What an amazing day at Eye of Africa! 124 golfers took on the challenging Greg Norman-designed course.
May 2025 / Newspaper
General knowledge quiz of champions
On 10 May we hosted a vibrant open day and welcomed local primary school learners to a general knowledge quiz across seven categories.
February 2024
A bunch of people running around a road that is not so much a road but a field with grass on it…
I said a boomah-chick-a-boom! I said a boomah-chick-a-boom! I said a boomah-chick-a-rocker-chick-a-rocker-chick-a-boom!
2024 / Newspaper
Kruger National Park 2024
Our Matric Life Sciences learners spent seven days in the Kruger National Park: night game drives, tented camps, wild dogs, hyenas, a cheetah and lions.
April 2022
Got Our Hair Did!
CANSA Shavathon/Sprayathon 2022!
April 2021
Staff vs Learners Grudge Soccer Match 2021
Okay, maybe ‘grudge-match’ is a bit of a strong term to describe the occasion, but ever since the Griffin House vs Staff soccer match in the spring of 2019 ended in a one-all draw, there’s been an...
September 2020
The Scintillating Life of an Exam Invigilator
If you have never had the pleasure of experiencing what it is like to supervise candidates during an exam, then this one’s for you.
July 2020
THE THINGS THAT WERE
There was supposed to be a BESA Holiday Survival Guide Part 3. There wasn’t. There was supposed to only be 21 days of lockdown. There wasn’t. There was supposed to be only a few weeks of online... March 2020BESA HOLIDAY SURVIVAL GUIDE (PART TWO)
Believe it or not, there’s a car in space.
March 2020
BESA HOLIDAY SURVIVAL GUIDE (PART ONE)
Believe it or not, conversation is still a thing.
March 2020
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ OF CHAMPIONS
‘The room was filled with an air of outright distrust, cynicism and total bewilderment.’
March 2020
CANSA Shavathon 2020. What An Event!
Unfortunately we’re a few days late on this one; the official CANSA Shavathon/ Sprayathon week was actually last week. But owing to our annual open day being held over the past weekend, the week...
February 2020
What. A. Week.
What a week. No seriously. This week was a long month. February has been quite the year. But fortunately, at BESA, we do not concern ourselves with ‘months that feel like years’. Nope. We’re not that...
February 2020