Two years of frustration came to an end on Wednesday as the first cohort of students of the University of Fort Hare’s speech and language pathology programme finally graduated. The students were meant to graduate in 2022, but challenges to the status of the qualification for the four-year course hindered their progress and most were unable to find work.
Owami Ngqono, a 19-year-old agricultural economics student from Butterworth, is set to become the youngest graduate at the University of Fort Hare’s Autumn Graduation this week.
Acclaimed Eastern Cape fashion designer Thando Piliso lost R200,000 worth of equipment and clothing in a business robbery, but he did not allow the misfortune to deter him from uplifting the province’s fashion scene.