Got accepted at CPUT.
The letter that changed everything.
After Matric, I worked at the laundry
as a laundry assistant and as a domestic worker in Margate, KZN. It was hard
and I felt hopeless, watching my peers going to varsity. I was surrounded
by negativity and discouraged, I felt like my life was a joke. I used the
money that I got from my job to phone the universities and request for
application forms and to send them back to the universities.
Got accepted at CPUT for NHC:
Accountancy and that was the biggest turnaround of my life. I prayed to
God for school (University) every day from the day I left high school. When I
got an acceptance letter from CPUT I just did not know what to do, I was
so emotional and thankful to God. Education was my silent prayer even when I
was just walking to the shop or to home or church I would ask God to give me
chance to go to varsity in order for me to change my life and rebuild my
dignity.
Going to varsity was not just anything
for me, it was everything that is the reason why I never wasted time or took
the opportunity for granted. I wanted to make myself and God proud. I got
accepted by three institutions, two for education and one for accounting so I
decided to go with CPUT because I love accounting and auditing, I have always
wanted to be an Auditor. Although I was advised to choose education (teachers
course) because it’s easy to finish and to get a job once you finish. And also
because of my background, people feared that I would not survive if I choose
accounting and auditing because I could not speak English properly.
From primary school till high school,
English was our second language, and in rural areas, we were taught in Xhosa
even English. Even in class when you ask a question, you ask it in
Xhosa and the Teacher would respond in Xhosa, so at varsity, it was going to be
hard for me to adapt. That was the risk I was willing to take. Most people did
not believe that I would survive at the varsity and in a big city.
I was also surrounded by negativity
people, telling me that many people in my village who did Auditing course but
could not get an Auditing job and end up working as admin clerk, and why am I
doing a course that won’t get me a job? That also put pressure on me.
Another struggle was that my classmates
were two years younger than me, I was old so I struggle to find friends that
were in my age. My peers were doing their third years already because after
matric they went straight to varsity. I just decided to accept that my life is
different and it’s my story and it does not have to be the same as other people,
and after that, I owned my story, I found peace and I focus on the reason why I
was there.
Written by Lisa Nqala
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