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They met in 2010 and became a couple in 2016.
The doctors plan to pay their good fortune of a good education forward by motivating and helping others to do the same.
There was jubilation all round in the Shange-Juba household when Nompumelelo Shange and Roderick Juba received their PhD degrees together on the very same day – and both in the Faculty of AgriSciences at Stellenbosch University.
Shange received her degree in Food Science and Juba in Conservation Ecology. The couple were married in September 2019 during a traditional wedding in Inanda near Durban.
"Because of Covid, we had to postpone our white wedding to next year," Shange said.