Paarl's highly educated car guards

Beatrix Badenhorst teaches at the Taal Museum and Monument in Paarl, and develops Afrikaans teaching programmes. She also teaches English, Spanish, German Portuguese and Arabic. Her recent success stories includes teaching 22 Congolese refugees Afrikaans. Some of these students are car guards at Paarl Mall, where they now greet people in Afrikaans. The Congolese paid for their classes and the Mall provided the classroom. Amongst them there is a marine biologist, teachers, a physicist, tradesmen, an author of six published books, and an engineer with a Master's degree. They all have work permits and are awaiting their asylum hearings.