Durban Girls' College

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Durban Girls College was founded in 1877 as the Durban Young Ladies Collegiate Institution by a group of six Durban Commissioners and Protestant Clergy under the leadership of J F Churchill. The founders are still remembered in our Founders Day service each year, and the six school houses bear their names Churchill, Cottam, Greenacre, Hunter, Palmer and Rutherford. In 1905, DGC moved to Musgrave Road, its present site, which was donated by Sir Benjamin Greenacre. The beautiful original school building is a monument to the spirit of excellence in which the school was established. Over time, the spacious campus has been extended and developed and the present pupils enjoy world-class academic, cultural and sporting facilities and equipment.The founders and benefactors envisioned our school to be an institution that would provide women with a quality education that would span across generations. For more than a century, our schools ethos and philosophy have been shaped and developed, resulting in the st