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Izak Haarhoff left his small home town to study medicine at Walter Sisulu University in Mthatha, where he overcame cultural and language barriers to embrace his new home.

Not even a near-death bus accident, which temporarily confined him to a wheelchair, could stop Dr Izak Johan Haarhoff from realising his dream of pursuing medical studies.Not even a bus accident in which he nearly died, and which temporarily confined him to a wheelchair, could stop Izak Haarhoff, 28, from realising his dream of pursuing medical studies.

“It was the only university that looked at the person and not just at the marks. Today, I am an extremely proud medical graduate of WSU.” nerve-wracking. Being Afrikaans, he said studying in English was a struggle for two years.“In the December holidays after grade 11, I landed myself a position as a shadow in the orthopaedics department at the Kimberley Hospital Complex. I spent 150 hours over three weeks gaining valuable insight into the life of a doctor,” he said.

“In my fourth year I lost six people close to me in six weeks. Two of these people died in front of me. I went into a deep depression and eventually had to repeat the year.started his fifth year in 2018 on a high and was placed in East London for the first six months. At the beginning of the Easter weekend, he took a bus home to Kimberley.

 

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