DURBAN NORTH COLLEGE
College in Durban

You will now become part of our Alumni Silver Flames of DNC. Durban North College is an educational institution with a Christian Ethos, maintaining high standards and providing opportunities for every learner to develop to his/her full potential within a diverse community. Not only are we different but also unique, hence the extensive array of subjects and activities available. We also have a dual medium pre-primary school (Toktokkie) on the premises. Durban North College is a school based on a Christian Ethos with strong values and principals. School Motto: AD LUCEM entails the school’s endeavor to realize the ambitions which is symbolized through the open Bible. The Flamboyant Tree which is indigenous to KZN, is the driving force of Durban North College. After this period the city was expanding north towards the new suburbs Durban North, La Lucia, etc. and once more the community and parents felt that a school offering Afrikaans was needed north of the Umgeni River. This coupled with the fact that there were four English-only High schools north of the Umgeni river and the ever increasing numbers of our school meant that the parents-committee started negotiating for the purchase of grounds for the new bigger school. There was not sufficient space for the growing school and sports such as athletics, rugby, hockey and cricket could not grow, in fact students had to use facilities at Kings Park where the last athletics meet took place during Initially there were only plans for one rugby field and the parents had to once again struggle to get more land for an additional field. The city council was heavily against this as they had planned a high-rise development on the ground. It came as a surprise then when the planned development was cancelled and the grounds were offered to the department of education. The naming of the school was a headache for the then parent-committee of Stamford Hill High school. However it was felt that the names had no connection to the history of Kwazulu-Natal, it was felt that the names could lend themselves to other interpretations and nobody wanted a school name that had any connection to a past or present public person. The old premises in Stamford Hill are currently where Livingstone Primary School is based. Currently today Durban North College is a High School, Primary School as well as Pre-primary School (Tok Tokkie) and it is an educational institution with a Christian Ethos, maintaining high standards whilst providing opportunities for every learner to develop to his or her full potential within a diverse community.