My own learning pathway | a summary in the third person
My own learning pathway, a summary in the third person Margaret Burger (van Zwol) is an environmentalist based in Durban. She completed a bachelor’s degree and then studied education. As a young activist her first teaching post was with the then Department of Education and Training at Pholela High School in Bulwer in 1975. Relocating to the city in 1979, and feeling stifled in a strict curriculum environment, she taught Geography at Sacred Heart High School, Oakford Priory, Verulam. At the same time she studied early childhood education and shifted her focus to this more creative developmental phase of education. After more than a decade in education, she pursued her passion for working in the earth and started a landscaping and garden maintenance business, Grassroots in Johannesburg. In 1991 she returned to Durban, combining landscaping, managing a legal office and community work. Community work through the uMngeni Estuary Conservancy led to involvement in a privat