GMA: Students have been pleading for fee-relief these past two weeks: We help one of them.
Kagiso Media recently had a conference and this included some games played with prize money. This prize money has generously been donated to Good Morning Angels with a request that an education need be addressed. The Kagiso team chose the request for help for Sizwe.
GOOD MORNING ANGELS 28 OCTOBER 2015 (SISWE/KAGISO MEDIA)
Students have been pleading for fee-relief these past two weeks: we help one of them
REQUEST FROM: Belinda de Villiers
REQUEST FOR: Sizwe Nthuli
ANGEL 1: Werner Lindeman, Kagiso Media
SPONSORING: Kagiso Media recently had a conference and this included some games played with prize money. This prize money has generously been donated to now been Good Morning Angels with a request that an education need be addressed. The Kagiso team chose the request for help for Sizwe.
ANGEL 2: Good Morning Angels Fund
SPONSORING: The GMA Fund will put in the rest of the outstanding fees - of R12 000,00 to bring Sizwe's outstanding TUT study fees for the year to zero!
BACKGROUND: The #FeesMustFall plight by students across South Africa has dominated the news over the past two weeks, with most South Africans supporting the plight for access to higher education for all students who qualify. There are too many stories of bright, talented, dedicated and hard working young South Africans who are excluded from a tertiary education and the opportunities it brings, mainly because they and their parents cannot afford it. We received this email on 16 October, just before the protests started and started to look for a sponsor ... Sizwe is just one of the thousands of students facing exclusion, because his single mother and domestic worker, Alex cannot afford to pay his study fees. He is also one of thousands who should qualify for government support, only to be told later, that he didn't get help and now has to pay-up of leave.
ORIGINAL REQUEST:
Goeie môre,
Ek val sommer dadelik met die deur in die huis…..
My huishulp, Alex Ntuli, werk al 20 jaar by my. Sy is die ma van Sizwe,’n baie knap,22-jarige seun. Sy is ook ‘n enkel ouer - Sizwe se Pa woon in Natal en is werkloos.
Sizwe se droom is om ‘n onderwyser te word. Aan die begin van 2015, is hy toegelaat om onderwys by TUT te studeer. Sy ma se betaalstrokies , ID en polisie-verklarings moes ingedien word asook ‘n bedrag van R1500 vir registrasie. Ons het alles gedoen.
Hy het egter nou gehoor dat hy R32 000 vir sy studies moet betaal!!!! Hy het ook aansoek gedoen vir ‘n beurs, maar is meegedeel dat beurse eers van hul 2de jaar af beskikbaar is.
Sizwe werk baie hard en sy punte is baie goed. Dit sal vreeslik wees as hy sy studies moet staak en sy droom moet laat vaar omdat hy nie geld het nie.
Dit sal wonderlik wees indien julle dit kan oorweeg om vir Sizwe te help om sy droom te leef!
Baie dankie
Groete
Belinda de Villiers
