Through private tuition in Cape Dutch with Mr. CJ van Rhijn and self-study, she later obtained the school completion certificate (skooleindsertifikaat) and after that, she qualified to work as a primary school teacher at Cape Town Training College in 1911 when she received the T3 certificate for primary education.
The collapse of the ostrich markets and the outbreak of the First World War hurt the newspaper business, and due to financial difficulties, it ceased operations at the beginning of 1915.
Due to financial constraints, Die Burger had to cut staff in 1918 and she was laid off, although she received a letter of recommendation from the editor, Dr. Daniël François Malan.
Throughout her career, she also gave private classes in Afrikaans to high school students, immigrants, diplomats, and Members of the South African Parliament at her home.
After Langenhoven's death in July 1932, she acted as the literary curator of his legacy as per his request[4] and spent most of her time marketing it.
Her first big task was to publish “Versamelde Werke” and at the same time she initiated the preservation of Arbeidsgenot, Langenhoven's house in Oudtshoorn.
Some of her verses are included in the collections “Nuwe klein verseboek” and the anthology from the Dutch writer Gerrit Komrij's Die Afrikaanse poësie in 'n duisend en enkele gedigte (Afrikaans poetry in a thousand and one poems).
Together with Louis Herrman, she edited Janus: A bilingual anthology / 'n Tweetalige bloemlesing, presenting works of well-known South African English and Afrikaans writers.
She also designed an education program in Afrikaans language and literature for the South African Zionist Youth Movement Habonim Dror Southern Africa.
[1] In 1964, she received the Molteno Medal from The Cape Tercentenary Foundation in recognition of her work as executor of Langenhoven's literary legacy.
[1] She started to lose her eyesight shortly after Langenhoven's 100th-anniversary events and she spent the last months of her life in the Stikland institution, where she died on 22 May 1975 in Cape Town.