2022 Winners
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Baby City
Best Baby Essentials Store
Baby City will equip you from cradle to potty training, weaning to solids with every conceivable product or gadget imaginable to keep you and your baby safe and comfortable. From everything feeding-related, hygiene products, clothes, bedding, toys, and accessories, as well as all the everyday bum creams and diapers, you can kit out your nursery with cots, nightlights and more. Make sure your most precious cargo is strapped snuggly into the car with their range of SABS-approved car seats. A gift registry is available.
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Die Hoërskool Menlopark
Best High School (Afrikaans)
Built in 1963, following a meeting of parents within the area, this high school kicked off with a mere 372 learners in grades 8, 9 and 10. Today, this Afrikaans-medium school has an impressive 1 700 learners. Among its most famous alumni are singer Koos Kombuis, actress Jana Cilliers and author Marita van der Vyver.
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Eduvos
Computer Training
Eduvos is one of South Africa’s largest independent private higher education institutions with 12 campuses across the country and many international students. Eduvos offers 27 degrees in humanities, arts, business, applied science, technology and law.
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Hatfield Christian School
Private School
Hatfield Christian School, an initiative of the Hatfield Christian Church, is a reputable school in Pretoria east. “We provide Christian education and training for the whole child – intellectual, physical, spiritual and social – to develop young men and women for a productive life,” their website says.
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Hatfield Online Christian School
Online Learning Institute
If you ask Google what is the best online school in South Africa, it will list the Hatfield Online Christian School. That is because it was created out of the sound educational tradition of Hatfield Christian School in Pretoria, which also won this year’s award for Best Private School.
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Laerskool Menlopark
Best Primary School (Afrikaans)
Menlopark Primary School has always been a leading school in the broader educational circles of South Africa. A school that gained fame, especially with its historically balanced success story and a school that managed to maintain it sustainably since 1953. The school, with its peaceful, spacious, tree-rich and rural atmosphere welcomes children and parents to become part of them.
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Pretoria Boys High
Best High School (English)
Pretoria Boys High School has a rich history going back to 1901 when it was founded by Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner. Today, the school has over 1 500 learners, including 300 boarders, from South Africa and beyond, managed by about 100 full-time staff. It also has a new media centre, library and music centre which were built in 2016.
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Pure Hope School
Best Primary School (English)
Pure Hope School is an educational institution for underprivileged children. Pure Hope School is an extension of our dream that resulted in a pre-, primary and high school, which opened its doors in October 2010. Their mission is “to see that children, the leaders of the future, find their rightful place in this world”.
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Spur
Best Kids Party Venue
Where else to hold a kids’ party but South Africa’s most beloved and probably oldest steakhouse franchise, the local family-friendly Spur? Yes, the Spur has been around since 1967 – and there’s good reason for that our voters believe.
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University of Pretoria
University
The University of Pretoria (UP) is one of Africa’s top universities and the largest contact university in South Africa. Founded back in 1908, the university has grown from the original 32 students in a single late Victorian house to approximately 53 000 in 2019. Today, it offers “a high quality of teaching and learning in the classroom, online, or communities”.
www.up.ac.za