Laerskool Johann Rissik

Laerskool Johan Rissik was an Afrikaans language primary school in Troyeville, a working-class suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa close to downtown. It included a junior school for kindergarten and first grade and a senior school for students from grades 2 to 5. The junior school was on what was then Kitchener Street and the senior school adjoining that street (now Albertina Sisulu Road) and Pretoria Street. The school is named after the first administrator of the Transvaal, Johann Rissik.
The school closed on December 3, 1991, the same day as Laerskool Malvern and Kensington Primary School, both in eastern Johannesburg, which would merge into one in 1992. At the time of the closures, the name of the united primary school still needed to be decided, by since the new building was on part of the old Kensington School's property on Cumberland Rd, in Kensington, the school took the name of the Kensington Primary School.
This combined school opened in 1992 with around 480 students and a staff of 32 under the leadership of Leon van Eeden, Malvern's last principal. Only five teachers came from Johan Rissik, but Van Eeden and another seven came from Malvern (five staff members had retired at the end of the 1991 school year), and 20 hailed from the old Kensington. With the merger of the schools, Johann Rissik's last principal, Joon Kruger; and Kensington's, Giel Oberholzer; were both let go with pensions.
Shortly after the dissolution of the three separate schools, the same root decline in the Afrikaans-speaking population led to the merger of the denominations known as the Jeppestown Reformed Church and Malvern Reformed Church into the Kensington Reformed Church, also in 1992. The Belgravia Reformed Church had already been absorbed by the Malvern church in 1980, and the Bezuidenhout Valley Reformed Church was brought under Jeppestown around the same time. The in Troyeville dissolved in 1986 (see its absorber, the ), but the congregation in Kensington, an outgrowth of the Jeppestown and Kensington NGK ones, held on until 2003.

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