Triphin Mudzvengi with her proud father Polate Mudzvengi and Ian Jandrell, head of the faculty of engineering and the built environment at Wits University.Triphin Mudzvengi was stuck at home in the North West three weeks ago with eight matric distinctions but little hope of studying further.
Mudzvengi started attending civil engineering classes on Monday after good Samaritans read about the plight of the 18-year-old whose parents could not afford to enrol her at university to study engineering. Mudzvengi said on Friday that it felt overwhelming to be rubbing shoulders with students at Wits:
At least three streams of funding are in place, including a backabuddy campaign which had raised more than R12,000, a student account and a personal account.