Hoërskool Marais Viljoen

My son interested to be submitted to grade 8, 2026.

education is barely up to standard. discipline is awful. mental health is not taken seriously. :(

Dear Marais Viljoen, I hope this letter finds you well and happy. I am writing to you as a former student who left the school a few years ago. I want to express my sincere appreciation and gratitude for the education and experience that you gave me. I know that there are some bad things being said about you and your reputation. I also know that I was part of the problem when I left the school and said some hurtful things. I deeply regret my actions and words, and I apologize for any harm or pain that I caused you. I want you to know that despite everything, I still cherish you as a school and a community. You taught me so much about academics, sports, culture, and life. You gave me a sense of belonging and pride that I will never forget. You shaped me into the person I am today. I wish I never left you, but I can’t change the past. All I can do is learn from it and move forward. I hope you can forgive me and accept me as one of your own. You will always have a special place in my heart. Thank you for listening to me and for everything you did for me. I hope to visit you again someday and see how you are doing. Until then, please take care and keep up the good work. Sincerely, Vernon Eatwell.

The receptionist of the School is very rude and don't want to help you.

The teachers don't help with the work they just tell you the page number and say it's for homework. When they give you something to do they don't explain it but will give you unnecessary demerits if you get the work done. The teachers will give us demerits even if we do the work and skip what the teacher told us to skip. This scool is the worst in Allerton and probably the whole Johannesburg area. We are there to learn but we get treated like trash and as if we are not even human to them. Don't enroll your child here.

Overall a great school with good spirits and family-like bond towards students making everyone feel welcome and important. Especially a great school if you enjoy sports and culture. Sports are definitely one of their first priorities. Academics are also of high quality because the teachers are experienced, committed and enthusiastic about what they do.

Respek respek vir al die onderwysers, Dr Krause, Hoof Mev Heystek wat julle vir Francois Joubert gedoen het en my gehelp het ek kan nooit ooit genoeg dankie se nie. Erica du Plessis

All these “good” reviews are so fake and such pick me’s, it’s quite obvious that they are from all the school favorites. This school most definitely favours afrikaans kids over english kids weather it be sports, academic or cultural activities and they prioritize sports wayyyy more than academics, out of over 60 teachers in the school there are at MOST 5 good teachers. They also do absolutely NOTHING about bullying as they say they do and they go out of their way to make your life hell while you’re there and they’re always so petty. You can also tell quite a lot about this school by seeing how many teachers leave a year and how they are always looking for new teachers ( yikes :| ) anyways if you want to enjoy high school and not feel like you are worth less than others then marais vapoop is definitely NOT the school to go to. Good luck to all the hostages in there that are still serving time, stay strong, you’re almost out of there <3

This school is racist and there is no equality in school however their efforts are noticed to make marais one big family they need to work on equality with raice, gender and english/ afrikaans.

They make the favouritism towards afrikaans students so obvious. Afrikaans kids get bigger classes even though there are less students in a class, English kids get smaller classes even though they pack 35 of us into it. Afrikaans kids disrupt a class? Teachers just teach through it. English kids disrupt a class? They get sent to the headmaster and get a disciplinary/detention. Sports: They will first put an afrikaans kid onto the team before they put any english kid. And not to mention, they have some teachers teaching subjects they’re not even qualified to teach. The school does nothing about bullying either. I’ve filled in plenty forms about a student who bullied me yet they did nothing and still put me in classes with her. Overall, the school is just really bad. They also value sports over academics.

Ay sister was here and she hated it the school is sexist , racist and homophobic. And the school cares about sport they push the academic to the side . And they blame everything on the English

I removed my daughter the first term in Gr8 due to bullying and backward thinking teacher. My daughter needed counselling afterwards. She was part of the Afrikaans side but because we liberals she was rejected incl the teachers. I would NOT recommend them AT ALL.

As a POC and English student, who attended Marais Viljoen for 5 years,I would not reccomend this school. At first, I was rejected from the school because of the colour of my skin, my dad had to go to the Dept. Of Education in Alberton to fight for my place. I did not have much of a choice of high school because I had just transferred from Durban. From Grade 8 to Grade 10, there were 3 indian children in my grade. Grade 11 to matric there were 4. The English kids were punished for something the Afrikaans kids did. The principal favours the afrikaans kids and athletes. If you did not participate in sport, you cannot become a prefect in Grade 12. A sport orientated school, academics is taught just because its necessary. All the teachers are Afrikaans speaking and cannot pronounce the english words properly so they would say it in afrikaans and the kids would have to figure it out. If you are related to a teacher by blood, you are an instant favourite. Grade 8 are forced to go to "compulsory" sport events to support the school rugby team and if they do not go, they are given demerits. Sport events always end late at night and your parents must fetch you from school at midnight, then you are expected to go to school the next day. Most of the teachers grew up together or are mother and daughter. There is not one POC teacher at Marais Viljoen. I have good memories at Marais but as you can see they were mostly bad. I honestly do not reccomend this school if you are an English speaking learner who is a POC without any sporting abilities like myself, you will regret it because of the discrimination.

While I've been a previous student for my grade 8 and grade 9 years, I have found a lot of issues with this school for being an English kid. 1) this school favours a lot of students that don't need to be favoured. For instance, if a student has rich parents, the parents put a lot of money for their kid and then a day afterwards they're in a top side in sport AND they get a bursary??? 2) this school really needs to be more observant and have a thought process for grade 8's. They end up doing "geesvang" for athletics and end up arriving home so late at night. Unacceptable 3) for an ex-student who was playing cricket for the school, during my 2 years i experienced no recognition for my performances, EVEN THOUGH I was the best bowler in the matches we've played. But no, if you don't go to their cricket academy or play A-side sport, you're nothing to them 4) my lovely sister went to this school for her full 5 years of her schooling career. In those 5 years this school has done nothing but disgrace to her. When she started back in 2016, she was given, and PROMISED, a full 100% bursary and playing time in the A-side in hockey for her outstanding performances in primary school. She got the 100% bursary and played A-side hockey in grade 8 BUT as the years progressed in that her bursary decreased by 25% for no particular reason. By the end of her grade 10 year, her bursary was gone and started playing B-side hockey for the school. Like what????? 5) teachers are fine in this school. To be honest, it's a 50/50 call when it comes to education. Some teachers are terrible, some are amazing. Some areas are good, some are not. 6) the BIGGEST problem that this school has is it's inability to practice what they preach. They preach for importance in academics meanwhile in 2019 they had 12 matrics who failed. They say this school built upon greatness but it's average on a good day So from this summary, if you had to compare a scam artist to any school, it'll be this one. Don't go to this school if you are a POC or English.

The English kids in the school always feel left out/picked on or that they dont get rewarded. Thats because they dont do anything to earn respect/rewards!We have great English as well as Afrikaans teachers that teach out of years of experience and teach to the best of their ability. Its a fair,loyal and disciplined school! 10000% MARAIS VILJOEN!

marais is racist, and they treat the English kids unfairly and favour the afrikaans kids. it is very unfair and they pick on the English kids and the black kids get treated unfairly.

If you're not afrikaans, they don't care about you. Their demerit systems aren't good. They always talk to us about starting over in the next year of school but then they carry demerits over from the year before. I don't think there's one teacher who can speak English properly so all English learners must learn things that teachers can't even pronounce or anything

This is a school that I'd recommend because of the learning environment. They have good teachers and they're very strict. The school is passionate when it comes to sports so if you intend on doing sports you'll love the school but there are also other activities you can do at the school. The only bad thing about my experience there is the issue of racism which hasn't been dealt with adequately.

This school has a great reputation but they do not live up to it. Teachers don't care and there are plenty of classes with students bunking or sitting on phones. "Authorities" in this school turn a blind eye to bullying and drugs. They abuse the juniors with compulsory geesvangs that go on until late at night, and very terrible grade 8 initiations. They do not care about academics and are sports driven. Terrible school. Afrikaans children are also favored over black and English children.