“…Unfortunately, no data currently exist on how pre-service student teachers in the PGCE Programme at Nelson Mandela University perceive the SBL or WIL mentoring experience. Mentoring research within the South African context is important (Moosa and Rembach, 2020). The research reported in this paper thus resonates with this call, as it investigates whether a mentor teacher's personal and professional attributes or actions, system requirements, pedagogical knowledge, modelling, feedback, ICT pedagogical knowledge, or ICT modelling do influence a student teacher's self-efficacy and willingness to return to the same mentor-teacher (or not to return).…”