Our Team
The People Behind Our Work
The experienced team guiding Play-with-a-Purpose toward our vision of quality early learning for every child.
Staff
My favourite childhood memory is the holidays I spent with my grandmother, especially baking cookies with us on the last day to take home.
Michelle-Chanté Wienand
Programme Manager
My favourite childhood memory is walking with my granny to a local shop for a school trip where she let me choose the snacks I wanted
Keabetswe Makole
Programme Lead
My favourite childhood memory is playing outdoors and enjoying nature, making mud cakes with my friends and riding our bicycles. Worry free and enjoying life
Shantel Meyer
Programme Trainer
My favourite childhood memory is playing games like soek soek, morabaraba and matachana with other children I grew up with on a farm homestead.
Bonginkosi Mpinda
Programme Trainer
My favourite childhood memory is doing art classes every holidays. Made me realise that I love it.
Hope Ntuli
ECD Compliance and Registration Advisor
My favourite childhood memory is coming home and finding my mom cooking and the smell of rain.
Masindi Mulaudzi
Programme Trainer
My favourite childhood memory is playing games with my dad, especially card games which gave me a love for learning through play and had a profound influence on the development of the Play-with-a-Purpose programme
Robyn Wienand
CEO and Founder
My favourite childhood memory is my mom baking us birthday cakes, teaching us to bake and cook and going camping with family, sometimes even in our own garden.
Roxanne Robbins
Child Justice Specialist / PR / Marketing
Favourite childhood memory is receiving a small black-and-white camera at age six brought me immense joy. I loved the photos I took, especially the accidental double exposures created whenever I forgot to wind the film.
Nompumelelo Kumalo
Bookkeeper and Administration Co-ordinator
Support Hubs
My favourite childhood memory is riding on a homemade wooden box cart with my brother.. up and down the road... him steering me pushing and jumping on when we got to a hill.
Colleen Harvett
Western Cape Support Hub
My favourite childhood memory is my mom sending me to school for the first time. I never went to preschool. I really wanted to play with other kids and learn how to write my name. I was so excited.
Rene Giese
Eastern Cape Support Hub
My favourite childhood memory was when my sisters and I made Barbie doll houses with books. Huge houses with kitchens lounges and bedrooms and bathrooms. Hours of fun.
Sharon Rhodes
North West Support Hub
Brand Ambassador
My favorite childhood memory is receiving lucky packets of coloured popcorn from my Dad which has a toy inside and playing with my friends.
Themba Ntuli
(Actor and Filmmaker- Themba Mncube)
Trustees
My favourite childhood memory is playing games with my dad, especially card games which gave me a love for learning through play and had a profound influence on the development of the Play-with-a-Purpose programme
Robyn Wienand
CEO and Founder
My favourite childhood memory is my Grade 5 English teacher once told our class, "Only boring people get bored; a creative mind can never be bored." That idea has stayed with me. It taught me that creativity isn't just about making things - it's a way of seeing the world.
Moses Rahlogo
Chairperson
Favourite childhood memory is receiving a small black-and-white camera at age six brought me immense joy. I loved the photos I took, especially the accidental double exposures created whenever I forgot to wind the film.
Cindy-lee Brown
Trustee
My favourite childhood memory is playing chess with my dad
Donovan Reeve
Treasurer
My favourite childhood memory is building makeshift homes in our backyard for me and my sister.
John Holder
Trustee
When I was young, we always spent Christmas with family under a giant avocado tree with a long table and over 30 people. The whole day was filled with cousins, presents, and love. I think about it often.
Neville Siebert
Trustee
My favourite childhood memory is splashing and playing in the cool ocean waves, building sandcastles with the warm sun and seagulls overhead.
Priscilla Dengler
Trustee
Our Team
The People Behind Our Work
The experienced team guiding Play-with-a-Purpose toward our vision of quality early learning for every child.
Staff
My favourite childhood memory is the holidays I spent with my grandmother, especially baking cookies with us on the last day to take home.
Michelle-Chanté Wienand
Programme Manager
My favourite childhood memory is walking with my granny to a local shop for a school trip where she let me choose the snacks I wanted
Keabetswe Makole
Programme Lead
My favourite childhood memory is playing outdoors and enjoying nature, making mud cakes with my friends and riding our bicycles. Worry free and enjoying life
Shantel Meyer
Programme Trainer
My favourite childhood memory is playing games like soek soek, morabaraba and matachana with other children I grew up with on a farm homestead.
Bonginkosi Mpinda
Programme Trainer
My favourite childhood memory is doing art classes every holidays. Made me realise that I love it.
Hope Ntuli
ECD Compliance and Registration Advisor
My favourite childhood memory is coming home and finding my mom cooking and the smell of rain.
Masindi Mulaudzi
Programme Trainer
My favourite childhood memory is playing games with my dad, especially card games which gave me a love for learning through play and had a profound influence on the development of the Play-with-a-Purpose programme
Robyn Wienand
CEO and Founder
My favourite childhood memory is my mom baking us birthday cakes, teaching us to bake and cook and going camping with family, sometimes even in our own garden.
Roxanne Robbins
Child Justice Specialist / PR / Marketing
Favourite childhood memory is receiving a small black-and-white camera at age six brought me immense joy. I loved the photos I took, especially the accidental double exposures created whenever I forgot to wind the film.
Nompumelelo Kumalo
Bookkeeper and Administration Co-ordinator
Support Hubs
My favourite childhood memory is riding on a homemade wooden box cart with my brother.. up and down the road... him steering me pushing and jumping on when we got to a hill.
Colleen Harvett
Western Cape Support Hub
My favourite childhood memory is my mom sending me to school for the first time. I never went to preschool. I really wanted to play with other kids and learn how to write my name. I was so excited.
Rene Giese
Eastern Cape Support Hub
My favourite childhood memory was when my sisters and I made Barbie doll houses with books. Huge houses with kitchens lounges and bedrooms and bathrooms. Hours of fun.
Sharon Rhodes
North West Support Hub
Brand Ambassador
My favorite childhood memory is receiving lucky packets of coloured popcorn from my Dad which has a toy inside and playing with my friends.
Themba Ntuli
(Actor and Filmmaker- Themba Mncube)
Trustees
My favourite childhood memory is playing games with my dad, especially card games which gave me a love for learning through play and had a profound influence on the development of the Play-with-a-Purpose programme
Robyn Wienand
CEO and Founder
My favourite childhood memory is my Grade 5 English teacher once told our class, "Only boring people get bored; a creative mind can never be bored." That idea has stayed with me. It taught me that creativity isn't just about making things - it's a way of seeing the world.
Moses Rahlogo
Chairperson
Favourite childhood memory is receiving a small black-and-white camera at age six brought me immense joy. I loved the photos I took, especially the accidental double exposures created whenever I forgot to wind the film.
Cindy-lee Brown
Trustee
My favourite childhood memory is playing chess with my dad
Donovan Reeve
Treasurer
My favourite childhood memory is building makeshift homes in our backyard for me and my sister.
John Holder
Trustee
When I was young, we always spent Christmas with family under a giant avocado tree with a long table and over 30 people. The whole day was filled with cousins, presents, and love. I think about it often.
Neville Siebert
Trustee
My favourite childhood memory is splashing and playing in the cool ocean waves, building sandcastles with the warm sun and seagulls overhead.
Priscilla Dengler
Trustee
Our Team
The People Behind Our Work
The experienced team guiding Play-with-a-Purpose toward our vision of quality early learning for every child.
Staff
My favourite childhood memory is the holidays I spent with my grandmother, especially baking cookies with us on the last day to take home.
Michelle-Chanté Wienand
Programme Manager
My favourite childhood memory is walking with my granny to a local shop for a school trip where she let me choose the snacks I wanted
Keabetswe Makole
Programme Lead
My favourite childhood memory is playing outdoors and enjoying nature, making mud cakes with my friends and riding our bicycles. Worry free and enjoying life
Shantel Meyer
Programme Trainer
My favourite childhood memory is playing games like soek soek, morabaraba and matachana with other children I grew up with on a farm homestead.
Bonginkosi Mpinda
Programme Trainer
My favourite childhood memory is doing art classes every holidays. Made me realise that I love it.
Hope Ntuli
ECD Compliance and Registration Advisor
My favourite childhood memory is coming home and finding my mom cooking and the smell of rain.
Masindi Mulaudzi
Programme Trainer
My favourite childhood memory is playing games with my dad, especially card games which gave me a love for learning through play and had a profound influence on the development of the Play-with-a-Purpose programme
Robyn Wienand
CEO and Founder
My favourite childhood memory is my mom baking us birthday cakes, teaching us to bake and cook and going camping with family, sometimes even in our own garden.
Roxanne Robbins
Child Justice Specialist / PR / Marketing
Favourite childhood memory is receiving a small black-and-white camera at age six brought me immense joy. I loved the photos I took, especially the accidental double exposures created whenever I forgot to wind the film.
Nompumelelo Kumalo
Bookkeeper and Administration Co-ordinator
Support Hubs
My favourite childhood memory is riding on a homemade wooden box cart with my brother.. up and down the road... him steering me pushing and jumping on when we got to a hill.
Colleen Harvett
Western Cape Support Hub
My favourite childhood memory is my mom sending me to school for the first time. I never went to preschool. I really wanted to play with other kids and learn how to write my name. I was so excited.
Rene Giese
Eastern Cape Support Hub
My favourite childhood memory was when my sisters and I made Barbie doll houses with books. Huge houses with kitchens lounges and bedrooms and bathrooms. Hours of fun.
Sharon Rhodes
North West Support Hub
Brand Ambassador
My favorite childhood memory is receiving lucky packets of coloured popcorn from my Dad which has a toy inside and playing with my friends.
Themba Ntuli
(Actor and Filmmaker- Themba Mncube)
Trustees
My favourite childhood memory is playing games with my dad, especially card games which gave me a love for learning through play and had a profound influence on the development of the Play-with-a-Purpose programme
Robyn Wienand
CEO and Founder
My favourite childhood memory is my Grade 5 English teacher once told our class, "Only boring people get bored; a creative mind can never be bored." That idea has stayed with me. It taught me that creativity isn't just about making things - it's a way of seeing the world.
Moses Rahlogo
Chairperson
Favourite childhood memory is receiving a small black-and-white camera at age six brought me immense joy. I loved the photos I took, especially the accidental double exposures created whenever I forgot to wind the film.
Cindy-lee Brown
Trustee
My favourite childhood memory is playing chess with my dad
Donovan Reeve
Treasurer
My favourite childhood memory is building makeshift homes in our backyard for me and my sister.
John Holder
Trustee
When I was young, we always spent Christmas with family under a giant avocado tree with a long table and over 30 people. The whole day was filled with cousins, presents, and love. I think about it often.
Neville Siebert
Trustee
My favourite childhood memory is splashing and playing in the cool ocean waves, building sandcastles with the warm sun and seagulls overhead.
Priscilla Dengler
Trustee
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07h30 – 16h30 Monday - Friday
ISO 9001:2015 (world first) and ISO 21001:2018 (SA first) certified, raising the standard for quality early childhood education.
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Let’s Connect!
Andries Road, Muldersdrift P O Box 1105, Muldersdrift, 1747
07h30 – 16h30 Monday - Friday
ISO 9001:2015 (world first) and ISO 21001:2018 (SA first) certified, raising the standard for quality early childhood education.
Join our newsletter to get updates from PWAP.
By subscribing you agree to with our Privacy Policy and provide consent to receive updates from our company.
© 2026 Play With A Purpose Educational Trust | 040-711-NPO