The Old Diocesan Issue 10 - Magazine - Page 5
CONTENTS
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Welcome
Committee message
Principal’s message
School news
Pictorial: Bishops at 175
ODs in the news
Entertainment news
Retail revolutionaries
The CEO: Richard Black
The column by
Thabang Skwambane
42 Force for good: Ian Michler
46 Epic report: From the boys
52 Birthday drinks: Bishops
175 celebration wines
54 Wine industry update
56 Where is he now?
Herschelle Gibbs
60 Sports news
64 The bookshelf
68 Sophy Gray
visual art awards
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History: The
Cambridge connection
76 Obituaries
86 Who’s who in the ODU
87 IIOFF update
88 Developing our
mentorship platform
90 VUSA update
92 UK Branch update
94 New ODs
96 The Ox o’ Bishops
Photograph of the Mitre taken by David Rogers (1981G) in February 2024.
Note the new solar panels. For more about David, see p18.
ON THE COVER
For this cover of The Old Diocesan, postgrad architecture student
Bulelani Ngqukuvana (2017S) came up with a coincidental fynbos
theme, without seeing the Bishops 175 logo. We love it. “I look back at
my time as a young man growing up at Bishops fondly and with great
appreciation,” says Bulelani. “I hope that an element of the warmth
and joy I experienced as a student is conveyed through this cover.”