Principal
Emma Thandiwe Pheto
“The job of a principal is to make sure the kettle works, the gate locks, and that every teacher feels heard before 07:30.”
Home / Teachers
Seven educators. One hundred and fifty-one children. The maths is hard; the love is steady.
Our staff is small. Each teacher carries a class and a subject area. Most live in the village or on the neighbouring farms; some have taught here longer than the principal’s own children have been alive. They are not perfect. They are present.
Meet the Team
The people you’ll meet at the gate.
Click any portrait to read a teacher’s teaching philosophy. They wrote these themselves — we did not edit.
Head of Mathematics
Lerato Mokoena
“A child who can explain why the sum works will never need a calculator to feel clever.”
Grade 3 Class Teacher
Sipho Dlamini
“Grade 3 is the year a child decides whether reading is a friend or a stranger. I make sure it’s a friend.”
Lead English Educator
Anna van der Merwe
“Twenty-two years in this room. Every September I still bring a new poem to the children. They still surprise me with what they hear in it.”
Natural Sciences & Technology Lead
Tshepo Molefe
“A laboratory is anywhere a child can ask a question and bring back evidence. Ours happens to have an acacia roof on most days.”
Life Skills & Wellbeing
Nomvula Khumalo
“Before we can teach a child to read, we have to teach them that this room is safe. Sometimes that takes a whole term.”
Lead Music Educator
Bongani Sibanda
“Singing in three languages a week keeps a child’s tongue alive. I’ve been doing this for thirty-five years and it still works.”
“A small staff means everyone knows everyone’s name — the children’s, the parents’, and the dog who keeps wandering in at lunch.”
Joining the staff
We hire one or two new educators a year. Mostly through word of mouth.
If you are a SACE-registered teacher rooted in this district, we’d love to hear from you. We don’t advertise widely — the best teachers we’ve ever had walked through the gate one Saturday morning to deliver a sibling’s school report.
Talk to the principal- SACE registration current and clear.
- Setswana or IsiZulu home language is a strong plus.
- A driving license — the gate is on a dirt road.
- The patience to teach the same letter sound on the eleventh attempt the same way you taught it the first.
- Willingness to spend one Saturday a term on a parent activity.