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Somana s grandfather died the same year - but the pupil managed to achieve four distinctions.
The King William s Town boarding school, famous for producing rugby players, attained a 95.6% pass rate.
Despite losing a grandfather and being Dale College s first pupil to test positive for Covid-19, Luhle-uthando Somana, 18, came out as the school s third top performer after garnering four distinctions.
Somana is one of a handful of pupils from the King William s Town school, who passed despite challenges presented by Covid-19.
Another pupil, Mihle Kunene, managed to attain a satisfactory set of results, with four Cs, despite losing his father to Covid-19.