Simbongile Qabaka at his graduation ceremony with Actor Katurura, the University of Fort Hare’s acting deputy registrar for academic administration (Supplied)
Former train driver Simbongile Qabaka refused to allow a debilitating stroke he suffered in 2018 to derail his plans of completing his first university degree.
Barely two months after enrolling for a Bachelor of Social Science degree in human settlement at the University of Fort Hare in the Eastern Cape in January 2018, the father of three was left completely paralysed following the stroke.
Apart from being unable to move, he could not speak and had to spend a further four months at a rehabilitation centre where he had to learn how to speak and walk again.
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