Mission
To give every learner from Mosate Section and the surrounding farms a complete primary education — in a safe, well-fed, well-loved school where reading, numeracy and dignity come first.
A small public school with deep roots in Makapanstad.
Established in 1987, we’ve walked alongside three generations of families in Mosate Section. This page tells you who we are, how we work, and what we believe in.
Our story
A school built by the community, kept alive by the community.
1987. Makapanstad Primary School opened in two prefabricated classrooms on a piece of donated land in Mosate Section. The first principal, Mr R.K. Mokoena, had nine learners on the first day — most of them barefoot. Within a term the local SGB had organised a borehole and the first proper roof. We grew from those small beginnings into a school of 255 learners taught by 8 educators across Grade R to Grade 7.
The years since have been honest, sometimes hard. We weathered a long period of overcrowding in the early 2000s when the surrounding farms shed jobs and families moved in; we learned how to run a kitchen properly when the National School Nutrition Programme arrived; and in 2009 we became a Section 21 school, which lets us manage our own budget and respond faster to what learners actually need.
Today we are a Quintile 1, no-fee school in the Bojanala East District. The vast majority of our learners come from Mosate Section, with a few traveling in from the surrounding farms. About a third have a parent or caregiver who is a domestic worker, farm worker, or self-employed in the township economy. Our class sizes hover around 32, our LOLT moves from Setswana in the Foundation Phase to English from Grade 4, and we follow the national CAPS curriculum to the letter.
Our mission, in plain words, is this: every child who walks through our gate should leave Grade 7 able to read fluently, count confidently, and look an adult in the eye. The rest — the choirs, the gardens, the library corner — exist to make those three things possible.
1987
Year established
255
Learners (Grade R – 7)
8
Full-time educators
1:32
Average class ratio
“We are not trying to be a fancy school. We are trying to be a school that does the ordinary things really well — every day, for every child.”— Mrs M.A. LEFIFI, Principal
What we believe
Mission, vision & values.
Three short statements the whole staff revisits every January, written in language that learners can understand too.
Vision
A Makapanstad where every Grade 7 leaver moves on to high school confident in two languages, comfortable with numbers, and aware that their voice and their community matter.
Values
Botho — humanity. Boikarabelo — responsibility. Tirisano — working together. Boikgantsho — pride in what we are. Botshepegi — honesty. We try to live these in small, daily ways.