[2] In 2007 Archbishop Emeritus Njongonkulu Ndungane was making it a special project to bring historic church schools back to life as centres of educational excellence.

[6] 2009 - Luke Swartland 2010 - Gugulethu Mbatha 2011 - Jimmy Hsu 2012 - Mohau Sebake 2013 - Pepys Madibane The school produces a weekly news sheet called St Cyprian's Scroll.

Within eight months of opening, and for the Patronal Festival, the school mounted an acclaimed production of Godspell, which is based on the parables of Christ from the Gospel of St Matthew.

The Cathedral proved to be the ideal setting for the work, which has a quasi liturgical structure: a drawing near for the liturgy of the word (Act 1) followed (in Act 2) by, inter alia, the Last Supper and the Passion, with a final recessional – down the aisle, and out into the world – proclaiming a living God and recapitulating the Baptist's Cry: “Prepare ye the way of the Lord.”[7] The following year the school produced the musical Fame[8] One of the performing highlights in the first year of the school's existence was a benefit concert in the cathedral, presented in association with the Kimberley Academy of Music.

[9] In 2012 the St Cyprian's Grammar School Choir, accompanied by strings and continuo, gave performances, in the cathedral, of Antonio Vivaldi's Gloria.