There’s nothing like a list of South Africa’s most expensive schools – for both boarding and day attendance – to make you realise that all those savings you’re pocketing now are going to vanish soon enough.

So you have two options (other than not having children): either you make sure your kids are super-duper bright and know how to work hard so they can cruise through schools on others’ expense, AKA bursaries, or you can prepare for anything by preparing yourself.

Since last year, the average increase of school fees has been around 8% (remember the protesting?). While the most expensive schools are boarding establishments, day schools aren’t too easy on the wallet either.

Business Tech compiled a list of 10 of the most expensive schools in each category, and while some boarding schools fall into the day-school list, the order changes up somewhat.

Take note these prices exclude levies.

While here in Cape Town we are lucky enough to have multiple awesome schools that don’t make the list – cue one massive sigh of relief – what would you do if you had to send your child to boarding school in some far-off part of our country? Saving just might not be enough – and that’s where guys like Consequence come into play:

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[source: businesstech]