We started as a forward-thinking online tutoring company dedicated to empowering students to reach their full potential. Our tutors provided personalised attention and guidance to help students navigate the academic landscape with confidence.
For six years, we worked with hundreds of learners and we noticed something. The students who improved weren’t just getting more help. They were finally learning in a way that matched how their brain actually works.
That observation changed everything.
Elite Tutor 2.0 is no longer a tutoring company.
After 16 years of observation — first as a tutor, then as a founder — we discovered that traditional tutoring treats the symptom (bad grades) while ignoring the source (how your child actually thinks).
We’ve evolved into a diagnostic-led learning development company. We don’t teach subjects. We diagnose how your child learns, then provide one aligned playbook for the learner, parent, and tutor — so progress becomes consistent and measurable.
What stayed the same:
What changed:
The name “Elite Tutor” remains, but now it means developing elite learners, not providing elite tutoring.
To diagnose how learners think, and equip families with the clarity to support them intentionally.
A generation of independent thinkers who understand themselves before they rely on AI or anyone else.
Background education
Phenyo Victory Kgongwana is the founder and Lead Elite Tutor. She successfully attained her undergraduate 3 year degree from the University of Cape Town (UCT) in a double major, Finance & Economics (2009-2011). Winning “Most Motivated Student” award from the Education Department Unit at UCT.
With motivation, Phenyo was afforded the opportunity to tutor first year UCT Mathematics students (2010 & 2011), which formed part and parcel of her accolades. To add, she secured her professional Au Pairing training in France, Lyon (2012-2014) as well as her international DELF B2 qualification in the French language from the Lyon Catholic University (2014).
Upon her return to South Africa, Phenyo successfully completed her Postgraduate studies at UCT in Applied Economics (2016) while heading a tutor body for the UCT Economics 101 tutoring course of 1000 plus students and tutoring the 3rd year UCT Advanced Macro and Micro Economics course (2016 – 2017).
After working as a French Data Analyst at Artificial Intelligence company, BrandsEye (2017), Phenyo decided to pursue the entrepreneurial route: Elite Tutor focusing on Mathematics, Economics and French. The journey thus far has led Phenyo to complete her entrepreneurial experience through the Strat-Up School empowered by Investec.
In 2026, Phenyo completed her TypeCoach certification, adding personality-based career alignment to Elite Tutor’s diagnostic toolkit. Today, she personally facilitates every Clarity Success Guide assessment: ensuring that no learner becomes just another number, and no family is left guessing.
