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

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 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.

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.

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