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A TRUE CALLING

THERE’S no shortage of tragic tales of children with learning difficulties who fall through the cracks in an education system ridiculed with issues – overcrowding in classrooms, overworked teachers, staff shortages, the list goes on.

But every now and then an educator worth their weight in gold rises to the top of the pile and warms the hearts of a nation weary of woe.

And one such person is Jevonn Cloete, the 29-year-old acting deputy headmaster of the Rusthof LSEN School in Strand near Cape Town. LSEN stands for learners with special educational needs, and

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