Our Mission
To deliver every Makweleng learner a complete CAPS-aligned primary education — taught in English and Setswana, supported by NSNP nutrition, and small enough that no child is unseen. We answer to our community first.
A note from our school
Small school. Honest work. Steady community.
Makweleng Primary School has been part of Mabeskraal since 1979. We are 190 learners and 7 teachers — and we mean it when we say we know each other by name.
There is a particular sound a small school makes at half-past seven in the morning — the metal gate, the first call of the prefects, a few feet running across the dusty quad because someone is late again. We hear it every weekday, and it is the sound of a community waking up to the most ordinary, most important work in the world: showing up for the children of Makweleng.
Principal's Message
A letter from the gate.
Principal Kedibone Emily Makhubalo has led Makweleng Primary since 2017. She greets every learner by name at the gate.
The 190 children who walk through our gate each morning are not a statistic on a Department form. They are Lerato who loves drawing wildflowers, Thabo who knows the name of every bird in our Acacia, and Naledi who reads to her grandmother every evening before supper.
We are a small Quintile 1 No-Fee school in the heart of Bojanala. We do not have a swimming pool, a sports pavilion, or a fleet of laptops. What we have is seven full-time teachers who know every learner by name, families who walk in without knocking, and a CAPS curriculum we deliver with patient, joyful, deeply local teaching.
Our promise is simple. Nine years from now, when a Grade R child finishes Grade 7 here, they will read fluently in English and Setswana, do their sums confidently, ask brave questions, and know — in their bones — that they belong here, and that they belong anywhere they choose to walk next.
If your family is considering Makweleng, please come walk our grounds. Sit in on a morning circle. Stay for the NSNP meal under the Acacia. We will tell you, plainly, what we can offer your child and what we are still learning to do better.
Mission · Vision · Values
What we hold ourselves to.
Three short statements, written in 2018 by our staff and SGB together, and re-read aloud in every staff meeting.
Our Vision
By the end of Grade 7, every Makweleng leaver should be a confident reader, a careful writer, and a brave question-asker — ready to walk into any high school in the North West and feel that they belong there.
Our Values
Botho — humanity that begins with greeting one another by name.
Boikarabelo — responsibility for our books, our grounds, our community.
Boithuto — lifelong learning, in every language we speak at home.
“We will not be the biggest school your child ever attends — but we plan to be the one they remember.”
SGB Annual Report · 2024