Denise Rack Louw

This book would make an excellent guide on any journey in the Eastern Cape, as well as a good-read resource for the class or school library, with its useful information on the history and geography of the areas covered. Author Jeanette Eve taught English literature at secondary and tertiary level before taking up a post […]

Denise Rack Louw reviews Could Do Better: School Reports of the Great and the Good edited by Catherine Hurley (Pocket Books, R116) Teachers should take note: the comments they write in pupils’ reports could return to haunt them in years to come. Could do better is a recently published book that shows how far off […]

The successful development of Blair Atholl School, north of Johannesburg, is an achievement that golfer Gary Player holds almost as dear as the many medals and cups he has gathered through his illustrious career. When Player bought the Blair Atholl estate in 1983, it had a simple farm school for about 20 children. Today Blair […]

Generations of South Africans have grown up thinking that reading is something you only do in English. But it’s high time to change all that, writes Denise Rack Louw