Scholar Starts Journey to Become Doctor
Sometimes on our selection trips it feels like we are tilting at windmills. In a dusty, windblown stretch of the Eastern Cape a giant wind farm rises from the scrubland as you round the corner of a mountain pass. Five of our 114 Scholars will come from this region of
Dear Raise the Children My name is Khotatso Muhadi, and I am 23 years old. I grew up in Soshanguve, Pretoria, where I still spend the holidays with my mom, siblings, and grandparents. Growing up in a community affected by unemployment, poverty, and limited access to basic services was not
My name is Lucia Mlotshwa, and I'm in Grade 8. My father died when I was 5 months old and I was raised by a single mother. My mom works on a farm so that she can provide for me, my brother and my big sister and makes
2025 has been marked by rising economic and geopolitical uncertainty. Despite advances in artificial intelligence, modelling, and algorithms, human behaviour remains fickle and the future hard to predict. Uncertainty breeds fear, which in turn leads to isolation, depression, aggression and paralysis. In the midst of the chaos, one thing remains