Tag: Mandela Park

Rorisang Chidi, 18, stays with her family in a zinc shack in Mandela Park – an informal settlement outside Pretoria.

Studying by candlelight, steep transport costs and losing valuable class time to a strike and the Fifa World Cup didn’t stop Rorisang Chidi from becoming one of Gauteng’s star matrics of 2010, scoring a remarkable seven distinctions.
• SA matrics excel despite hardships