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 Zijl 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
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 Marita van der Vyver (1975), author Stefan Swanepoel (1975) – American business executive and author. Johan Marais (1976) - Springbok rugby union player Reggie Holmes (1976) - Springbok 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) - Springbok 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) - Protea cricketer Heinrich Klassen (2009) - Protea cricketer Theunis de Bruyn (2010) - Protea 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 Andell Loubser (2015) - rugby player Stean Pienaar (2015) - rugby player Wayne van der Bank (2015) - rugby player Bernard van der Linde (2018) - rugby player Lohan Potgieter (2019) - rugby player Hanrie Louw (2019) - field hockey player
References
External links
School website