Poor dad, rich legacy

Sebapola Lebotse’s employment contract, issued by the then Transvaal Education Department in 1989 when schools were not yet integrated, is entitled “Appointment of non-white employee in a temporary capacity”. He worked there for 12 years until his death. A 2001 payslip shows he took home R2 016.13 a month. Despite this, he put his daughter Margareth Phalane through teacher training college