About Kaleidoprax
Kaleidoprax is committed to empowering South Africans with the English skills they need to excel in their environment.
The Kaleidoprax Institute’s journey started from the foundations laid by Hough & Horne in the early 1980’s.
Our purpose never changed. Our understanding did.
WE STARTED as an English Training Company.
We have been diagnosing English Competence & providing unique Solutions for 20+ years.
We have always been passionate about people. Our niche is making a difference in people’s lives by improving their English skills.
But… we felt we were missing something with the Literacy gap in society not shrinking fast enough. We dared to ask why.
- Why should people care?
- Why are we in business?
- What is our PURPOSE?
WE REALISED that improving English wasn’t the problem we were trying to solve.
The real challenge was helping organisations see the invisible barriers preventing capable people from performing at their best. Communication wasn’t simply a language issue — it was influencing hiring decisions, learner success, workplace performance, and business outcomes.
Today, we combine diagnostics, data, and industry insight to make those barriers visible. By understanding what’s really happening beneath the surface, organisations can make better decisions, unlock hidden potential, and invest where it matters most.
Our Difference
Why Choose Us?
We don’t start with solutions.
We start by understanding the problem.
For more than two decades, we’ve worked alongside organisations to understand why capable people struggle, why training doesn’t always deliver the expected results, and why communication continues to limit performance in the workplace.
What we’ve learned is simple: assumptions are expensive.
That’s why Kaleidoprax isn’t an English training company. We are the business that makes invisible performance barriers visible before they cost organisations money, time, and people. We combine workforce diagnostics, data, and industry insight to reveal communication friction—the hidden loss of meaning, speed, and confidence that occurs when business communication is processed through a second language.
Because better decisions begin with better evidence.
The Kaleidoprax Team
Our comprehensive suite of professionals caters to a diverse team, ranging from seasoned architects to renowned engineers.
Zerelde Swanepoel
Managing Director & Overall Boss Lady
Talita Uys
Instructional Designer & Creative Mastermind
Krista Horne
Scoring and Results Referee
IN MEMORIAM: Theunis Horne
(30 Oct 1935 – 8 July 2010)
Theunis, CEO of Hough & Horne, described himself as a professional educator-cum-communication skills consultant.
In 1983, after what he described as a “26-year apprenticeship in the teaching profession and educational publishing”, he found his niche and all the job satisfaction he was craving for in the Education, Training and Development (ETD) in the private sector.
He created, designed, developed and networked when he was not consulting, marketing, training, researching or entrepreneuring.
ELSA (eight clones), LITERATI (an indigenous, pre-ABET literacy board game), and Hands-On English ( ABET I-IV) are some of his better-known brainchildren. He holds a BEd (Natal) and an MEd (Potch), and had a passion for “finding ways and means to lessen the trials and tribulations of language transferees.”
He also believed that 90% of ETD’s woes – nationally – can be related to the imposition of ETD on learners/trainees/students who are not linguistically ready.
Not only was he the father of many brilliant concepts and ideas that led to wonderful solutions in the world of education and training, but he was also a father to many in people’s development. Theunis was extravagant in sharing knowledge and experience, and more so in imparting his positive spirit in facing all challenges.
Many will testify to his incredible sense of humour, more so to his ability to always leave one with that ‘feel-good’ about oneself.
Test Developer & father of our Brilliant Concepts