2005 - Merit Award: Best First Year Student in Economic and Management Sciences (Central University of Technology, FS)

2006 - Merit Certificate: Best Second Year Student in Economic and Management Sciences (central University of Technology, FS (CUT,FS)

2006 - Supplemental Instructor for Education 1 (CUT,FS)

2006- Supplemental Instructor for Accounting 1 (CUT,FS)

2007 - Merit Certificate: Business Management  Best third Year Student (CUT,FS)

2008 - Merit Certificate: B Ed (FET) Economic and Management Sciences BEST STUDENT (CUT,FS)

2008- Merit Certificate: General Subject Didactics BEST FOURTH-YEAR STUDENT (CUT,FS)

2008- Merit Certificate: Education BEST FOURTH-YEAR STUDENT (CUT,FS)

2008-  B Ed (FET): Economics and Management Science (Central University of Technology, FS)

2010 - B Ed (Honours): Educational Management (Central University of Technology, FS)

2013 - B Ed (Honours): Psychology of Education (Inclusive Education) - University of Free State

2017 - M Ed - Psychology of Education - University of Free State (dissertation title - Critical analysis of Sexuality  Education in Schools beyond the disciplinary boundaries of Life Orientation

journals published.

Chaka, J., Beyers, C.,  & Swanepoel. E.  (2018).  Voicing adolescent learners`  perceptions of sexual messages received from teachers in a rural school within the Free State Province.  Journal of Education Studies 17(2), 87-104

Chaka, J., Beyers, C., & Swanepoel, E. (2019).  Sexuality education beyond the life orientation class: teacher perceptions across the curriculum.  Southern African Review of Education 25(2), 105-119