I would not argue that I have ever experienced problems with respect to education but rather my challenges are those that pertain to self-awareness and mindset. This is to say growing up it was really challenging being skinny and dark as this was defined as ugly (or so I thought).
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A few things in the more youthful years of adulthood are as daunting as the prospects of venturing off into post-secondary schooling. In addition to the barrage of considerations one must deliberate with on that front, the reality of the changing dynamics of your relationship’s weighs-in on you before you even have time to fully grasp your new reality.
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Social cohesion is a concept that is widely disputed in literature and as such it is difficult to define or give an accepted definition. Nevertheless, it can be maintained that social cohesion speaks to the cooperativeness, shared vision and commonness of a society prevailing among people.
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I was celebrating my 28th birthday last Thursday, and I wanted to go out and have fun, go to a lodge far from school, just to get awThe first thing that comes to mind when I think about being a woman in this country is GBV. Mainly because gender-based violence is rampant in South Africa, making it one of the most hazardous locations in the world for women. As a Law student, I know that in terms of legal protection of gender rights, the new South African constitution is one of the most progressive in the world. ay from my books and the stress they bring. I love my course, but a lady needs a break every now and then.
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I was celebrating my 28th birthday last Thursday, and I wanted to go out and have fun, go to a lodge far from school, just to get away from my books and the stress they bring. I love my course, but a lady needs a break every now and then.
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For many of us, being a woman in South Africa isn’t all stilettos and fancy handbags. Picturing all those American movies that we have all seen. It’s all hard work and being scared all the time. Apart from the negative, there are some positives – we are strong women!
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South Africa, like many other African countries, has had a good share of cultural practices and beliefs that hindered women from living up to their full potential and following in their dreams. Generation after generation, South African women have had to surrender to and endure a life that had just been reduced to marriage and child bearing. Anything outside of that considered a taboo. Forbidden.
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Nelson Mandela International Day is celebrated on the 18th of July of every year in honour of the late and first democratically elected President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela who fought for the freedom of South Africans who were oppressed and were under the apartheid regime. The day was officially declared by the United Nations in November 2009 and the day was officially celebrated in 2010.
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Coming to South Africa as a foreign student was not easy. From the emotional breakdown of having to leave my family for the first time at 18 years old, to the fact that I had no idea of what I was getting into made the situation extremely complicated.
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Youth Day commemorates the Soweto Uprising which took place on 16th June 1976 where thousands of black students were protesting against having to learn in Afrikaans during the Apartheid regime. It is important to me because it marks a day that changed the lives of South African youth forever because youth now have access to education that is taught in a medium of instruction that students can understand.
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