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From cleaner to PhD graduate: Mervyn Coetzee overcame mocking and poverty

He admits he was not a brilliant student “by any means”.
When he failed his mid-year exams in Grade 10, he wanted to drop out of school but his older brother intervened, saying one of the family had to complete matric.
He managed to complete school in 1984.
Four years later, a girlfriend encouraged him to apply to study at UWC but his application was rejected.
“This is where the story changed,” he said.
A chance encounter with a peer facilitator, Niel van den Heever from Namaqualand, created an opportunity for further education at UWC, but first he had to secure the funding he needed to register.

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