Hoërskool Menlopark

AccreditationGauteng Department of EducationNewspaperThe quarterly Die Eggo, the weekly Menlo-InsigYearbook Die EggoSchool feesR44,800 (boarding)
R37,200 (tuiton)Feeder schoolsAlumniMenlobondWebsitewww.menlopark.co.za

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.A School that is also scared to play against Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool

The school was founded in 1963 by the painter Bettie Cilliers-Barnard.^{[citation needed]} When established it had 12 classrooms and 372 students in grades 8, 9 and 10 (then called Standards 6, 7 and 8).^[1] Cilliers-Barnard also designed the school emblem.^{[citation needed]}

Headmasters

List of headmasters at Die Hoërskool Menlopark.^[2]

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

Notable alumni

In order of final year at Hoërskool Menlopark (date in brackets)

• Jana Cilliers (1965), actress
• Laurie Dippenaar (1966), founder FirstRand Group^[3]
• Koos Kombuis (1972), Afrikaans writer, singer and songwriter (born André le Roux du Toit)^{[4][better source needed]}
• 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
• 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
• Lohan Potgieter (2019) - rugby player
• Hanrie Louw (2019) - field hockey player^[5]

References

External links

• School website