Welcome
*History of the school*
Bendor High School was initially conceptualised in late 90s and in the year 2015, the then acting MEC of education Mr Jerry Ndou confirmed that indeed the school is on the cards.
There are however some delays in terms of implementation and that led to the school being only established in the year 2025 in the month of November.
The interim structure was established for the governance of the school during inspection until the rightful parents of the learners are elected democratically in a formal setup.
*The names of the interim structure as approved by the Head of Department, Mr Maropene Seshibe were:*
Mr Chuene PL experienced principal
Mr Mapiti TD experienced principal
Ms Chokoe KM DCES-Psychosocial services
Mr Mphahlele TM DCES-Mathematics GET
Mr Mphahlele SW- Corporate Services and Human Resources, Capricorn South
Advocate Molepo TE- Governance Manager, Maraba Circuit
Mr Lottering FH- Deputy Principal, Tom Naude
Mr Mathipa MW- Acting Principal
The school is meant to be a technical high school, which will be mostly focused on teaching skills to the learners, with an objective of producing entrepreneurs as opposed to job seekers.
The school will also provide performing arts courses like music, dramatic arts, visual arts to the learners who are interested. This affords door of opportunity to most learners in the Limpopo province as these are areas not mostly catered for.
The admission of the first cohort of learners was done at the circuit office where learners whose addresses were from Bendor, Sterpark and other neighbouring areas were purposefully sampled and placed on the list for the new school. Other learners from different town areas were later added as they were coming from surrounding primary schools.
The school is temporarily operating from the Capricorn High School premises while our building is being constructed at our site in Bendor, Outspan Drive.
The school is currently servicing 227 grade 8 learners, who will be doing their matric in the year 2030.
Throughout the years, grades will be added, as and when we receive the new grade 8 learners.
Mr Mathipa, the acting principal worked very hard together with the SGB in establishing the curriculum makeup for the school, uniform colours, designs and the likes. Today the school is a well oiled machine because of those tireless efforts.
In January 2026, the school kicked off with 5 new teachers (Mr Mathipa, Ms Modike, Ms Buys, Ms Thoka, Ms Chauke) who were late joined by 4 (Mr Manyama, Ms Varghese, Ms Mhangani and Mr Maphutha) teachers making a total of 10 teachers to date.
We all look forward to the success of this prestigious institution.
