He has been offered the University of Pretoria's vice-chancellor’s Merit Award and plans to study mechanical engineering there.Cornwall Hill's 144 matriculants received 398 distinctions.
Stephan Botha received seven distinctions despite undergoing a bone-marrow transplant in matric. This meant he missed the third term and preliminary exams. He was diagnosed with leukaemia in April 2021, he told TimesLIVE. Not only were Botha and his family happy about his unexpected distinctions, he was also cleared of leukaemia earlier this month.
“I am feeling good. I went for tests at the beginning of this year and it was clean. The cancer is gone. I am so relieved. I will be going to Wits University [in Johannesburg] to study chemical engineering.”The school made headlines in 2021 because of allegations of racism, but changes have since taken place.
Salminah Sebola, a former member of the student executive council who received six distinctions, said: “There are new black teachers who teach accounting and business studies, and there are a lot of intern teachers who are black.Sebola will study chemical engineering at Stellenbosch University., but it is one of the best on the continent,” she said.
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