11 February 2020 1 Min Read

True or false: this school is illegal and must be shut down

in News / South Africa by Prega Govender
Joost Zeelie, director and owner of Hanniel Primary in Nigel, and his daughter, Jani Zeelie, who is a teacher and also acting principal of the private school which has not been registered with the Gauteng education department.
Image: Thapelo Morebudi
Loading ...

Joost Zeelie is 56 years old, a former policeman, a self-taught maths teacher and the director of an unregistered private school – one of the dozens the education department has warned parents about.

“I love maths and I was a good maths student at school,” said Zeelie, who has been operating the Hanniel Primary School in Nigel, on Johannesburg’s East Rand, for the past three years.

Loading ...
Loading ...