Mxolisi Mgolozeli started his undergraduate studies at the age of 43. A protection services employee from the University of the Free State graduated with a master’s degree in governance and political transformation at the Callie Human Centre in Bloemfontein on Thursday.
“After almost 20 years of being out of school‚ having to start my undergraduate degree at that age was difficult but it is all about commitment and sacrifice‚” says Mgolozeli.
When his colleagues would go home to be with their families‚ he would go to the library to study because it was always a dream of his to be educated.
Mgolozeli has been working at the University of the Free State since 2003‚ initially as an ordinary security officer‚ and was promoted to a supervisor in 2013. He would work 12-hour shifts but he did not let long hours stand in the way of his education.
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