Nelson Mandela Bay’s class of 2023 brought some of the Madiba Magic to the department of education’s top achiever awards on Friday, raking in eight accolades at the prestigious awards ceremony at the East London ICC.
As thousands of university’s first-year students get ready for their higher education studies, Eastern Cape universities said they have mechanisms in place to support those living with disabilities to continue furthering their studies at tertiary level. While the total number of the enrolment of this year’s students with disabilities at the province’s four universities is yet to be confirmed, owing to current registration, Nelson Mandela University seemed to be the preferred choice by stude.
Showing resilience in the face of rolling blackouts, vandalism of school infrastructure and sporadic service delivery protests, the 2022 Eastern Cape matrics proved their mettle with a 4.2 percentage point increase in the pass rate.