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Siyamthanda Mtyeku

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Siyamthanda Mtyeku will pursue a degree in medicine at Stellenbosch University.Image: GroundUp/Peter Luhanga
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He studied for matric in a one-room shack and got seven distinctions

Siyamthanda Mtyeku sometimes only had one meal a day Siyamthanda Mtyeku studied for matric in the one-roomed shack he shares with four other people in Marikana informal settlement in Cape Town – and passed with seven distinctions. The…

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