Meet our Stars!

Teacher’s Monthly is powered by a dedicated and educationally-enthused bunch of people. We eat, breathe and live education. Without our team, Teacher’s Monthly wouldn’t be where it is today.

The Team

Adrian Marnewick

Editor
Adrian is the brains behind the critical and often (self-proclaimed) humorously funny editorials in our monthly magazine. He did a 3-month (crash course) BEd, after which realising that business was more his thing, and studied Business Management through the University of Stellenbosch and the Louis Group Business Academy. Adrian is as passionate about education as a baker is about chocolate brownies. Read his Editorial column.

Dr Malcolm Venter

Author
Dr Malcolm Venter spends his days trying to pretend that he is retired. Since he retired as Headmaster of Edgemead High School, Cape Town, in 2007, he has continued to edit a teachers’ magazine (Naptosa INsight) and to serve as the National Chairperson of the SA Council for English Education and as a member of the National Council of the English Academy. Since retiring, he has also been contracted to do Whole School Evaluation visits and editing of reports for the WCED. He also evaluates student teachers for Stellenboch University. In between, he reads, swims and gardens (or rather supervises gardening), and writes for his column Venter Ventilates.

Lunko Rapudungoane

Author
Lunko is the deputy principal at Motswela High, teaching Life Sciences to Grade 12’s. She did her STD, HED and later BEd and is now currently completing her BA degree in Psychological Counselling, hoping to be a counsellor some day. She is a motivational speaker and conducts developmental workshops and team building. Lunko is fascinated not by the act – but rather the thought that brought the act; not by the coat – but rather the fabric that made the coat. Read her inspirational articles in her column Beyond the Surface.

Melanie Gow

Blogger
Melanie is famous for laughing at inappropriate moments and being the most cheerful and friendly person in the office. This is probably due to the fact that she was a teacher for 12 years and needed to be as optimistic as possible. She recently joined the EvaluNet team, because in her own words: “I realised that by working for EvaluNet, I’d not only be able to touch the lives of the children in my own classroom, but I’d be able to touch the lives of children throughout South Africa”. Melanie is the author of the column “Chalk and Cheese – Life After Teaching“.

Nadia de Jager

Blogger
Nadia has just started her first ‘real’ job as a teacher. Previously she studied Psychology at the University of Stellenbosch particularly focusing on child psychology and did extensive research into relationships. She now teaches languages and life skills at Hoërskool Voortrekker and is blogging about her transition into the teaching world as a new teacher. Read her thoughts about becoming a teacher on her column Hoërskool Oorlewing 2.

Mike Merrett

Blogger
Mike comes off the street. Not literally, though, having been without a car for so long he spent years walking the streets which therefore gave him plenty of time to observe and digest things around him. He considers himself an artist at the core, but has both feet firmly planted on the ground and is the Marketing Manager at EvaluNet. Mike focuses on contemporary education related issues that impact on a learner’s future in the 21st Century. The times are changing and Mike likes to say it as it is. Catch him in his column Open Mike.

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