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Residences were only for white students
When I applied to Rhodes University I was told there was no accommodation for me – their residences were for white students only.
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I lost my daughter to cancer
Dear O, I miss you dearly, it’s been a while but I will be fine. Days are getting better, and everyone is doing just fine. Mommy is imagining a 20-year old you, in varsity and living your fullest life.
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I have been through all the cancer meds
Radiation, chemotherapy, a mastectomy - and medication for life. What more could one woman have to face? Nava shares her brave story of living with and battling cancer.
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I was dead for 45 minutes
After a heart attack left her without a heartbeat for 45 minutes, Zhaunine’s journey to the other side of death and back gave her new purpose and hope for her life.
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We got by each day even though we were not rich
Mashudu, a young woman from Limpopo, shares her story of growing up in poverty – yet being able to triumph above her circumstances.
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Living with dyslexia
A lecturer once said to me that if she were my mother she wouldn’t be wasting her money on someone like me.
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Raising a child with Haemophilia
Nerissa, a mother of two, shares her story of what it's like to raise a child with Haemophilia and how she's raising awareness about the condition.
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Being an outsider
Daily I live with the thought that I, too, may find myself in the wrong place at the wrong time, guilty of being a foreigner.
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What can you tell us about life?
You've become what you despise, a stereotype. It's a blacked-out blur, but I'm pretty sure it ruled.
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