My uncle said to me back then: Come and visit me in South Africa.
A personal farewell interview after more than four decades.
Brigitte Broich came to Johannesburg in December 1984 on a tip from her uncle and started teaching grades 1 and 2 the following month — back then the school had 1,550 pupils, five parallel classes per year and no playground. Across her 41 years she raised five children, all of whom attended DSJ, later moved into aftercare and outlasted virtually every other teacher in the staffroom. She leaves with plans to take long, weeks-long hikes — and one parting line: "DSJ, stay as you are."
