The most expensive private day school in South Africa, based on Grade 12 tuition fees alone, and excluding acceptance and application fees costs just under R200,000 for the year. The honour of the most costly day school in the country resides with Kearsney College in Botha’s Hill, a small town located between Pietermaritzburg and Durban, in KwaZulu-Natal. It increased its fees by R8,580, or 4.5%, this year in order to retain the top spot with annual fees of R199,320, reports businesstech. Tack on the school’s mandatory R780 application fee and the R31,250 acceptance charge, the total price of admission for 2021 is a whopping R230 570.