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2020
Imké Schamrel
Imké Schamrel is studying medicine
Imké Schamrel is studying medicine at Stellenbosch University. She attended Wesvalia High School in Klerksdorp, North West Province.
“An achiever is defined as a person who achieves a high or specified level of success.
2020
Dumsane Joshua Nkosi
Dumsane Joshua Nkosi is studying mechanical electronics engineering
Dumsane Joshua Nkosi is studying mechanical electronics engineering at the University of Cape Town. He attended Lugebhuta High School in Mpumalanga.
Matriculants should try to get their marks as high as they can. Then they can be flexible and switch to any course if they find out that the study area they wanted is not what it seems.
2020
Pieter Terre’Blanche
Pieter Terre’Blanche is studying computer electronic engineering
Pieter Terre’Blanche is studying computer electronic engineering at North West University. He attended Ferdinand Postma High School in the North West Province.
I believe an achiever must be a hard worker and have determination, grit, perseverance, willpower, attitude and best of all, be humble.
2020
Tharina Snyman
Tharina Snyman is studying veterinary science
Tharina Snyman is studying veterinary science at the University of Pretoria. She attended school at Duineveld High School in the Northern Cape.
Winston Churchill once said: “Success is not final. Failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts”.
2020
Siphokazi Magagula
Siphokazi Magagula is studying mathematical sciences
Siphokazi Magagula is studying mathematical sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand. She attended Sitintile Secondary School in Mpumalanga.
An achiever carries the quality of perseverance. Perseverance is the ability to continue in the course of action even when one has faced a lot of discouragement, opposition, competition or failure. With perseverance, they gain the ability to learn from the mistakes, they always compete with themselves as a way of motivating themselves and they are not afraid of failing because they know that failure is a crucial part of learning.
2020
Gary Allen
Gary Allen is studying electrical engineering
Gary Allen is studying electrical engineering at Stellenbosch University. He attended Rondebosch Boys’ High School in the Western Cape Province.
I believe an achiever is not necessarily someone who attains the highest award or the best trophy, but someone who sets their mind to something they would like to accomplish and attains it after continuous effort. This reward after hard work and dedication sets achievers aside from the rest.
2020
Nomasonto Masanga
Nomasonto Masanga is studying medicine
Nomasonto Masanga is studying medicine at Stellenbosch University. She attended Dlangezwa High School in KwaZulu-Natal.
Excellence is the quality of being great, outstanding or extremely good. So before being extremely good there’s a lot of time to be invested, lots of energy, concentration and optimism. You cannot excel without sweating. I think excellence is what makes an achiever. Great achievement requires great sacrifice, so achivers are those people who have made themselves excel by sacrificing their time and focused on the goal aimed. They have put in great effort, determination and yes, finally grabbed the goal with both hands. That is what makes an achiever.
2020
Alexandra van der Spuy
Alexandra van der Spuy is studying mathematical sciences
Alexandra van der Spuy is studying mathematical sciences at Stellenbosch University. She attended Bloemhof Girls’ High in Stellenbosch.
‘Achiever’ is really such a wide term. I think anyone with enough perseverance and luck can be an achiever — the key is to try again and again, until you’ve achieved something. I think as long as you don’t give up, the mere act of trying already makes you an achiever.
2020
Malada Wamashudu
Malada Wamashudu is studying medicine
Malada Wamashudu is studying medicine at the Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University. He attended Thengwe Secondary School in the Vhembe District of Limpopo.
An achiever is someone who is always fighting to achieve, whether going through thick or thin, he/she always endures the pain and perseveres to achieve his/her goal. If he/she doesn’t achieve it, he/she doesn’t give up, but looks up and tries again.
2020
Alienke Boot
Alienke Boot is studying BSc Microbiology
Alienke Boot is studying BSc Microbiology at the University of Pretoria. He attended high school at Hoërskool Zwartkop.
A lot of people think achievers are just naturally smart. While intelligence may have something to do with it, I think the main characteristic of students which excel is that they don’t give up.
2020
Sihle Zuma
Sihle Zuma is studying Chemical Engineering
Sihle Zuma is studying Chemical Engineering at the University of Cape Town. He attended Reunion Secondary School in KwaZulu-Natal.
I believe you haven’t achieved if you haven’t helped anyone. An achiever is a person who has achieved her/his goal.
2020
Keanu Canto
Keanu Canto is studying Civil Engineering
Keanu Canto is studying Civil Engineering at the University of Pretoria. He attended high school at Willowridge in Pretoria.
An achiever is someone who has an ambitious vision,and who gives it their all to make that vision a reality,no matter the circumstances that they find themselves in.
2020
Lomso Dumezweni
Lomso Dumezweni is studying Medicine
Lomso Dumezweni is studying Medicine at the University of Cape Town. He attended high school at Nyanga Secondary School.
If you achieve your goals you are an achiever. To be an achiever you have to set goals for yourself and do all you can to achieve those goals, obviously your goals have to be SMART.
2020
Monique Davidson
Monique Davidson is studying Medicine
Monique Davidson is studying Medicine at the University of the Free State. She attended high school at C en N Meisieskool Oranje in Bloemfontein, Free State.
An achiever is someone who is dedicated, works hard and never gives up. An achiever is also someone who is extremely self-disciplined and knows how to sometimes say no to going out with friends because they know an important test is coming up.
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