Qualified Senior Primary Teacher with years of experience teaching/tutoring Afrikaans from Grade 4 to Grade 12

Michele is an exceptional Afrikaans tutor whom I wholeheartedly recommend. Her professionalism, experience, and exceptional emotional intelligence made an enormous difference for my daughter Sophia during an incredibly challenging educational situation.
When Sophia came to me in Grade 11 her Afrikaans was significantly behind where it needed to be. She was anxious, demoralized, and legitimately worried that she would fail. Finding the right tutor wasn’t just about academic skills - we needed someone with the wisdom and empathy to rebuild her confidence.
Michele stood out immediately. Unlike many tutors on the platform who are university students, Michele brings decades of formal teaching experience in schools and private tutoring. She’s a qualified educator with proper training, and it shows in every aspect of her approach.
What impressed me most was Michele’s ability to meet Sophia where she was - both academically and emotionally. She worked intensively with Sophia over several months, navigating complex moments with grace and professionalism. When Sophia became overwhelmed and needed to pause tutoring mid-year to focus on other subjects, Michele handled it with complete understanding and maintained an excellent relationship with our family.
The results speak for themselves: despite Sophia’s conviction that she would fail, and despite stopping formal study months before her exams, she achieved a C - the exact grade she had hoped to achieve after another full year of study. Michele’s teaching clearly reached Sophia in ways that gave her a solid foundation, even when Sophia herself couldn’t see it.
Michele is that rare educator who combines deep subject expertise with genuine care for her students’ wellbeing. She’s patient, wise, and knows how to work with young people facing difficult circumstances. I’m profoundly grateful for everything she did for Sophia.

In under four months, Michele completely transformed my daughter’s attitude towards IGCSE Afrikaans — from not enjoying the language at all to wanting to learn more. Michele’s gentle, intuitive approach, combined with her deep knowledge of both Afrikaans and the Cambridge curriculum, makes her an exceptional tutor. As a direct result of her support, my daughter’s IGCSE exam results improved by almost 30%. Michele builds confidence while delivering clear, focused guidance, and I would highly recommend her.

Very helpful and caring! Had a great understanding of the curriculum and her teaching was very useful in helping me understand the work easily. Highly recommended!

Michele is the most warm-hearted and thoughtful tutor out there, always thinking of her students. She went above and beyond to try and support me throughout our tutoring journey, which started in January 2025.

I needed to pass the Cambridge IGCSE Afrikaans exam with less than a year of preparation after having little to no experience doing Afrikaans in school before. Remarkably, I ended up achieving the mark I needed for university on my first try! I can attribute this success to Michele’s positive, understanding attitude, which created a safe atmosphere for me to learn my most daunting subject.

I am incredibly grateful for the time and energy she invested in me, and I will never forget all the laughter we shared along the way. I wholeheartedly recommend Michele as an Afrikaans tutor for any age, grade, or background.

Michele helped me improve my IGCSE Afrikaans mark tremendously in just a few months. I was never fond of Afrikaans, but through her support and teaching style, she completely changed how I felt about the language. She made learning enjoyable and tailored each lesson to suit the way I learn, making all the effort feel truly worthwhile.

I was an Ieb student and Michele was my afrikaans tutor for my matric year. She is very knowledgeable and thorough in her teaching of this subject. She was very committed in helping me to pass this subject with ease. Michele has a calming and reassuring approach towards her students.
She comes highly recommended.

Michelle has been tutoring me throughout matric and took me from knowing nothing about Afrikaans and hateing it to looking forward to her lesson and leaning more from struggling ti even right a test I was about to feel confident writeing my final exam in such a short period I was thought so much but most importantly in the most amazing way not only was Michelle an amazing tutor she is an amazingly careing person I always knew she belived in me and had my back and that made my journey so much easier always wanting the best for me . She is so understanding to life’s up and downs and that’s exactly what I needed in my matric year i couldn’t have had a better experience Michelle is the best teacher I ever had .

Michele is a brilliant Afrikaans tutor. She was able to get me interested in learning the language when no one else could. She was kind, yet able to keep me motivated to learn. I learnt a lot through her teaching and am very grateful for all the hard work she put into improving my Afrikaans. 10/10 would recommend. Baie dankie Michele.

Michele has spent many hours with my child helping them gain confidence and clarity with their Afrikaans assignments. She is patient and caring. I throughly recommend her as a tutor.

Michele Stevens is a diligent and passionate tutor. She is incredibly competent drawing on her many years of teaching experience. I would highly recommend her to anyone who is looking for an Afrikaans or English tutor.

I cannot recommend Michele as a tutor enough! I have known her all of my life and her lessons have been invaluable. As a teacher she is kind, dedicated, timeous, diligent and supportive. She always goes out of her way to help her students. I struggled with Afrikaans at school but, with her help, it became my best subject. Afrikaans was my best subject when I matriculated. My final Afrikaans mark was 98%! I could not have accomplished this without her.