Wonder girl

Gemma-May Grotepass (9), from Pretoria, is a Grade 4 student at Cornwill Hill College. She is also the youngest person in South, and one of only two nine-year-olds in the world, to pass the International Computer Driver's License (ICDL) exam, attaiing 86%. Besides being a computer and maths whizz, she also enjoys golf, Shakespeare, and Barbie dolls. Gemma-May is fluent in Afrikaans, English and Zulu, and understands German, Dutch, French and Sepedi. She has played golf, tennis and piano since the age of 3, and recently stopped doing ballet. She gets professional golf lessons. Her father, Willem, is a prosthodontist, and her mother May is an advocate. They also have a 19-year-old daughter, Odette, who matriculated with 8 distinctions last year and is a professionel golf player.