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vendor’s dream of a better future has hit a serious roadblock due to signing a form too quickly. Despite receiving help from a celebrated university professor, the vendor’s struggles have shone a spotlight on the numerous difficulties many students in South Africa face today. Prof. Linda de Vries from Protea Valley met Sasiwa Nonjongo (30) from Philippi at a workshop De Vries hosted in Durbanville. De Vries, who works at the University of the Western Cape’s School of Business and Finance, often gives financial literacy workshops to rural women. Nonjongo’s drive to succeed inspired De Vries and she became the professor’s personal mentee. Nojongo, who is from the Eastern Cape, didn’t complete matric. She later worked as a cleaner and in the security sector, but wanted to achieve more. With De Vries’s help she started selling Annique tea, often on taxis, and completed a course on natural health to help promote her business. But her dream remained that of obtaining her matric. “I wanted to get more opportunities,” she says. “I didn’t just want
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Vier 9de jaar tussen maats
Vendor’s dreams of matric dashed
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to be a cleaner or in security.” She started saving up for adult education classes and in January she went to the College of Cape Town to enrol for this year’s class. She was told the matric course only starts in August 2018 and ends in June 2019. But Nonjongo wanted to complete her matric as soon as possible. She received a flyer for Cape Town Community College, which said she could still complete her matric in 2018. When she got to their campus she paid the registration fee of R1000 and signed their form. The college then told her the monthly fee is R1050, at which Nonjongo balked. She couldn’t pay that amount, she told them. It’s too late, they told her, because she had already signed the form and paid the money. They refused to refund her deposit. “In reality she gave them all the money she had,” De Vries says. “She must have sold around R4000 worth of tea to get that R1000.” Nonjongo says her only remaining option is going to court and she doesn’t have the money to even get to court. When approached by TygerBurger, Mahlubandile Malangani from Cape Town Community College said they are fully accredited. V To page 2.
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