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BLIND GRADUATE: EXPECTED TO OBTAIN AT LEAST 10 DISTINCTIONS IN PUBLIC MANAGEMENT
Blindness no barrier
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blind switchboard operator from Delft has reason to smile after breaking down numerous barriers and graduating with multiple distinctions. Ornette Danse (32) is set to graduate today, 13 December, with a diploma in Public Management from CPUT’s Bellville campus. He is expected to obtain at least 10 distinctions, CPUT spokesperson Lauren Kansley says. After matriculating, Danse’s greatest ambition was to work at the South African Police Service (SAPS) as a switchboard operator. The blind father of three was so determined to realise this that he worked as a switchboard operator at a police station for free for an entire year. His hard work eventually paid off when he was recruited into the SAPS’ busy 10111 call centre. Fast forward a decade and Danse has used that same determination to propel himself through the three-year, part-time diploma in Public Management. In 2016 two of his children needed serious surgeries and the family even moved from Eerste River to Delft to make the commute easier for Danse, who mostly attended night classes at CPUT. “Being a call centre agent is a good job, but I didn’t see myself doing that in the future and I wanted to better my education so that I can be a better father and husband and ultimately earn a better salary. I love current affairs and politics, and Public Management was a way of using the skills I already have with my interest in news,” he says. Danse says he was received with open arms and accommodated by fellow students, lecturers, the CPUT Disability Unit and even his employers, who all went out of their way to make him comfortable. This included, he says, “things like a security guard helping me to the bathroom, getting my notes saved in Word and not PDF format, and my employers also arranged transport for me at night and made overtime arrangements for me”. “I knew I couldn’t fail even one subject because they believed in me and you often hear people complain that blind people just expect things for nothing. If I get promoted one day, I want to earn it.” Apart from his freshly printed diploma, Danse also speaks six languages – English, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Zulu, Sotho and Tswana – a skill he picked up during his time at the Athlone School for the Blind and during his upbringing in the Free State.
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