Knowledge creates opportunities!
Knowledge creates opportunities!
Guest speaker Dr Winny Maboya
Dieketseng Motsepe
The tenth of September 2018 marked the first day of the Spring Graduation Ceremony. Guest speaker Dr Winny Maboya started working at the Vaal University of Technology (VUT) in 2009 as a lecturer of Analytical Chemistry. 2018 Marks her 9th year as an experienced lecturer. She enrolled in 2011 at the Unversity of the Witwatersrand (WITS) in order to complete her Honorary Doctorate qualification and graduated in July 2018.
Dr Maboya indicated how privileged she felt to address the graduates and encouraged them to go out there and live their dreams and to pay no attention to people who will constantly try to bring them down and also graduating is a milestone not the end of the road but the beginning of greater things to come. Her message was based on the theme ‘Knowledge creates opportunities’ and the challenges that one faces strengthens you as you get to overcome them. She encouraged them to go out there and knock on doors looking for opportunities and to not wait for jobs to be advertised.
“Be as persistent as you can be. With perseverance and persistence, you can achieve your dreams”, said Dr Maboya.
The Vice-Chancellor and Principal of VUT Professor Gordon Zide sheared with the graduates that this Commencement (graduation) day marks as a day of recognition of where they come from and where they’re headed. He thanked the lecturers for all their hard work and the parents for the supporting their children through years of studies and to urge them to continue supporting them as they will reap the rewards.
“The beauty of education is for you to take over higher positions and to make a change” said Prof Zide.