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    Mar 04, 2019 5 minutes

    Tommy Rodgers

    Bloemfontein businessman and former learner at Primêre Skool Soutpan

    During Sunday lunch at Truksvy, we hear the owners referring to a man at one of the tables as “the headboy”. He is sitting near a banner sporting Primêre Skool Soutpan’s coat of arms and motto: “Be the salt”.

    The man is Tommy Rodgers, owner of TC Panelbeaters in Bloemfontein, who, with his wife, Zelda, bring along friends for lunch in Soutpan “at least twice a month”, and yes, as the eldest of five, he was indeed at school here from 1976 to 1979, his Standard 5 year.

    “I would estimate that in those years we couldn’t have been more than 35 learners from Sub A to Standard 5,” he says, “and every second weekend we’d

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