MALAIKA MAHLATSI | There is something fundamentally wrong when graduates must resort to measures like standing at traffic lights wearing their graduation gowns, or weeping uncontrollably on graduation stages, to be given a chance to make an honest living.
18 May 2022 - 07:52A week ago, University of KwaZulu-Natal student, Dumisani Ngobese’s emotional graduation photo trended on social media. The young man from a rural area outside Empangeni was photographed crying as he walked across the stage to receive his Bachelor of Arts degree.
Ngobese was raised by his maternal grandmother who was a street vendor and the sole breadwinner in a household with more than 10 children. It is for this reason that unlike his peers, he could not afford a suit for the special occasion. He wore a black golf T-shirt, black chino pants and white sneakers. The poignant image of a weeping Ngobese captured the hearts of millions of South Africans and it was not long after this that a Durban-based businessman offered Ngobese a job.
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