Hoërskool Menlopark
Die Hoërskool Menlopark (colloquially known as Menlo or Parkies) is a public Afrikaans medium co-educational high school situated in the suburb of Menlo Park in Pretoria in the Gauteng province of South Africa.
The school was founded in 1963 by the painter Bettie Cilliers-Barnard. When established it had 12 classrooms and 372 students in grades 8, 9 and 10 (then called Standards 6, 7 and 8). Cilliers-Barnard also designed the school emblem.
Headmasters
List of headmasters at Die Hoërskool Menlopark.
| Name | Started | Finished |
|---|---|---|
| G.P.L van Ziji | 1963 | 1973 |
| F. Gerber | 1973 | 1980 |
| F. Booysen | 1980 | 1984 |
| C.I.S. van der Merwe | 1984 | 2013 |
| S. Reynders | 2013 | 2024 |
| K. Hartman | 2024 | present |
Sport
The sports that are offered at the school are:
- Athletics
- Chess
- Cricket
- Cross country
- Equestrian
- Golf
- Hockey
- Mountain biking
- Netball
- Rugby
- Squash
- Swimming
- Table tennis
- Tennis
Notable alumni
 | This article's list of alumni may not follow Wikipedia's verifiability policy. (December 2023) |
In order of final year at Hoërskool Menlopark (date in brackets)
- Jana Cilliers (1965), actress
- Laurie Dippenaar (1966), founder FirstRand Group
- Calie Pistorius (1975), Vice Chancellor of University of Pretoria; now VC at University of Hull, United Kingdom
- Stefan Swanepoel (1975), The New York Times bestselling author
- Marita van der Vyver (1975), author
- Johan Marais (1976) - rugby union player
- Reggie Holmes (1976) - squash player
- Anneli van Rooyen (1978) - singer/musician
- Rudolf Straeuli (1981) - Springbok and Lions rugby player, and Springbok coach during the Kamp Staaldraad affair
- Jacques Olivier (1985) - rugby union player
- André de Ruyter (1985) - businessman
- Amalia Uys (2002) - Soap opera actress
- Yolandi Visser (2002) - singer
- Gideon Louw (2005) - swimmer in the 2008 Summer Olympics, 2012 Summer Olympics and 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Rassie van der Dussen (2007) - cricketer
- Heinrich Klassen (2009) - cricketer
- Theunis de Bruyn (2010) - cricketer
- Charné van Biljon (2011) - hockey player
- Willem de Beer (2010) - painter
- Inge Viljoen (2011) - heptathlon athlete
- Lenize Potgieter (2012) - netball player
- Lenke van Aarde (2012) - chess player
- Suné Luus (2014) - cricketer
- Jacques Snyman (2014) - cricketer
- Delmi Tucker (2015) - cricketer
- Stean Pienaar (2015) - rugby player
- Bernard van der Linde (2018) - rugby player
- Lohan Potgieter (2019) - rugby player
- Hanrie Louw (2019) - field hockey player
References
- ^ "Tuis". www.menlopark.co.za.
- ^ "Geskiedenis" [History] (in Afrikaans). Hoërskool Menlopark. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
- ^ Africa, Forbes (1 September 2013). "A MAN FOR ALL NUMBERS, WHO TURNED $50 INTO $74 MILLION".
- ^ "Die Hoërskool Menlopark se 2019 uitblinkers". AWSUM School News. 27 November 2019. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
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