NMMU Trust awards second bursary (published November 2014)
NMMU’s Light a Candle campaign has helped another student to achieve his dream with a bursary of R25000 from the NMMU Trust Office. Sakhumzi Dukwe is just one of the thousands of students let down by the government financial aid scheme this year.
Sakhumzi who matriculated from Soweto-on Sea’s SEK Mqhayi High School last year will have his second year of psychology studies financed through pledges made by donors buying into the trust’s Bursary Legacy “Light a Candle” campaign.
The campaign is an interactive one that sees donors buying and lighting a candle, at R500 each, that goes towards students’ bursaries.
Former DVC shares views in book (Published November 2014)
NMMU’s former academic Deputy Vice Chancellor shared his renewed persepective with the city recently in a book called Rainbow Nation. Professor Piet Naude, shared snippets from his book Reading between the (Head) lines on Life in South Africa at the NMMU Business School recently.
In the book Naude tears into all aspects of the various things that make South Africa what it is and breaks down societal constructs often perpetrated by the media. The book has been published by the Times Media Group.
Giving the gift of hearing (published November 2014)
ALUMNUS, Alumni Achiever Award recipient and the CEO on Klinimed in Port Elizabeth along with his dedicated team shared the gift of hearing with Rocklands pensioner recently when he received a free hearing aid worth R18 000.
Klinicare Foundation was donated a practically brand new hearing aid to donate to someone in need, this person being stroke victim Edwin Wait.