Staff Reporter|Published
“This campaign is deeply personal because I know what it feels like to study under financial pressure. If I can help even one graduate get their degree and move forward, then every kilometre is worth it.”
This is how University of Pretoria (UP) master’s student Qiniso Sithole described his bigger mission as he went through the final preparations to run his first Comrades Marathon on Sunday. Sithole will not simply be running 90-odd kilometres from Durban to Pietermaritzburg – he will be running for every late-night financial calculation and every moment he wondered whether he would find the money to get to the finish line of his degree.
And, ultimately, he will be running so that others…