David Makhubo Secondary School is a public secondary school in Kaalfontein, in the Midrand area of Gauteng. Like most South African public schools it does not publish a direct telephone number of its own, and neither the province nor the national department publishes one for it. The working route is the Gauteng Department of Education and the district office that covers Kaalfontein.
Official contact channels
- Gauteng Department of Education: 011 355 0000
- GDE head office: 6 Hollard Building, 17 Simmonds Street, Johannesburg
- National Department of Basic Education switchboard: 012 357 3000
- DBE call centre: 0800 202 933, or [email protected]
- No direct school telephone number or school email address is published by either department
Call the provincial number and ask to be routed to the district office covering Kaalfontein. District offices, not head office, hold the day to day relationship with a school, so that is where an admissions or placement question actually gets answered.
Before you call, check how the school name is written on your child report, transfer letter or admission confirmation. District offices work from registered school names, and a school known locally by a shortened name can be registered differently, which is the usual reason a query stalls at the first question.
What this organisation provides
- Public secondary schooling, Grade 8 to Grade 12, ending in the National Senior Certificate
- School directories list it as a no-fee school, which means no compulsory tuition fee, though costs such as uniforms and trips can still apply
- Admissions policy, the code of conduct and fee decisions sit with the school governing body rather than with the department
- National Senior Certificate certificate queries, including replacements and re-issues: [email protected] or 012 357 4511
The certification route is worth separating out. If your question is about a matric certificate itself rather than about the school, it goes to the national department directly and neither the school nor the district can resolve it for you.
Address and operating information
- Area: Kaalfontein, Midrand, Gauteng, postal code 1632, as listed in school directories
- No street address is published for the school by the provincial or national department
- School hours are set by the school and are not published centrally, so confirm them with the district office
Treat the directory address as a starting point rather than a confirmed one. Directory listings for schools are frequently out of date, and the district office is the authority on where a school sits and which catchment it serves.
Support and escalation routes
- Escalate in order: the school, then the school governing body, then the GDE district office, then GDE head office on 011 355 0000
- National level, once the province has had a fair chance: DBE call centre on 0800 202 933
- Governing body disputes: FEDSAS on 051 522 6903 or [email protected], one of the recognised school governing body federations
- Other recognised federations listed by the national department include the Governing Body Foundation on 031 564 7048 and the Governance Alliance on 011 453 3784
Governing body federations matter for a specific class of problem. If your complaint is about admissions policy, the code of conduct or a disciplinary hearing, that is governing body territory, and a federation can advise on whether the body followed the correct process. Departmental complaints about teaching, placement or staffing go the district route instead.
Sources
- Department of Basic Education Contact Us page, education.gov.za, read 3 September 2026
- Department of Basic Education Provincial Departments of Education page, education.gov.za, read 3 September 2026