She’s so cute you might want to eat her up. But hold on. If you say something like that out loud, the 264 learners of Hoërskool Martin Oosthuizen, the teachers, and even the rest of the Kakamas community will quickly put you in your place.
In this little town in the Kalahari, there are even one or two people who claim to have stopped eating mutton because Martie the lamb has stolen their hearts.
Martie is no ordinary sheep. She's so clever that she attends classes at this school in the Northern Cape. She stays in the school hostel, the teachers involve her to help with teaching and the children take turns picking up her droppings on the premises.