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Sinoyolo Nkilana, who lives with a bullet in his waist, is ready to study at the University of Fort Hare in Dikeni, thanks to education MEC Fundile Gade’s generosity.Ntabankulu-born Nkilana’s hopes of going to the university dwindled when his parents were unable to raise the registration fee of R3,500. ....
An Eastern Cape youngster has become the living embodiment of the popular saying: “when the going gets tough, the tough get going”. The story of Sinoyolo Kilana, 22, who is about to start his first year at Fort Hare University, is one of hope and perseverance. ....
Matric pupils at two neighbouring high schools who were subject to a reign of terror that made national news beat the odds with good matric results. The pupils were terrorised by gangsters, attacked with guns and knives, raped, shot at, their homes broken into and their valuables stolen. ....
The Eastern Cape has the second-highest percentage of households in the country a whopping 19.5% who have no access to piped water in their areas. And many of these households have to share their water source dams, rivers and streams in rural areas with animals. ....
While many people her age enjoy a comfortable night's sleep, 65-year-old Nomaguzu Luzwana, for the past four months, wakes up around 3am, grabs a bucket and torch, before setting off to scour her sprawling village for drinking water. She is among many women and children in Sikhobeni village in Mthatha who abandon their sleep to search for drinkable water in natural springs, mostly inside dongas, in and around their village. ....