Umusawenkosi (“Musa”)

“Before coming to the Communiversity of South Africa, I applied to the University of Western Cape (UWC), and I was accepted but I didn’t see the study offer online because I was in the Eastern Cape, and I had no internet access. (People who live there are suffering from no way to  get a network.) I then missed my study offer and the email offer had expired within 3 days and when I got back to Cape Town, that’s when I saw the offer. I tried to email them and have a meeting with the SRC President, begging them to re-send my study offer. The program for which I applied was B. Social Work (5 years), but they took someone   else because they assumed that, because I didn’t reply, maybe I took another offer.

It was very painful. What made me more sad was that I was given this chance by God to go to university and make my family proud of me. Afterwards, I started making wrong decisions about myself and my life. I was committing so many crimes, and I was involved in so many bad things in my community because I had nothing to do, and it was bringing me some money but in a bad way.

Then I met one of my friends and he told me about Communiversity. At first I was not interested because I was still hurting, but then he applied for me and I met two guys: Sir Wilco Van Eeden and Sir Bradley Koen, along with Granny Ndileka, our community monitor. They warmly welcomed me, and I truly appreciated their parenthood just at that time. On the day of the interview I was accepted, and I was so happy and then I told myself that ‘the old Musa is no more.’

Next year, I will study and make Communiversity and my family proud of my achievements. I want to say thank you to Communiversity of South Africa for creating these opportunities even for those who never had the luck to go for higher education and for giving us another chance to fix errors that happened in our lives.”