Gontse Primary
Gontse Primary School started in 1998 in a very economically disadvantaged area in Soshanguve South (Extension 3) next to the city of Tshwane Industrial Centre (Rosslyn). Most of the learners could not afford to travel to other schools by bus or taxi as most parents are not employed. Three unemployed educators volunteered to teach 250 learners under the trees.
During rainy days educators and learners sought out for shelter from a neighbouring house which once belonged to a farmer who left the place when the informal settlement were extended to his farm.
In 1999, Putco bus company donated four old buses that were utilised as classrooms.
In 2000 Safmarine through Memon Foundation of South Africa donated steel containers which were converted into ten classrooms. The school has grown to one thousand three hundred and twenty seven learners with thirty nine educators, three admin staff and six general assistants in 2011.
Bursaries were initiated by Mr Wesley Madziva from Express Employment Professionals. Learners with outstanding performance in Grade 7 are awarded with bursaries to continue with higher education.
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