As a Zimbabwean student, Dr Musawenkosi Saurombe impacted positively in the world of education and wrote her name in the book of history as well as stood as a motivator for other youths in Africa and the world at large when she became the youngest female PhD holder in Africa.
She is from Zimbabwe, but studied in South Africa and now she is currently a higher education ambassador. She is 23-year-old Musawenkosi Saurombe, Africa's youngest PhD holder.
Individual and familial penances tallied to a great extent for the academic march that has earned her a doctorate in Industrial Psychology.
Also, she is the first to admit that it took a considerable measure of psyching up to explore through social pressure and to accomplish. "In the event that I had tuned in to what individuals will say in regards to my age, gender or race, I would not have taken some steps that I took.
According to Dr Musawenkosi Saurombe, her dad needed to sell his car just to get her through her third year of study and furthermore the general social difficulties because she was a lady as well as the youngest in her class.
Dr Saurombe began school at four years old in Gaborone‚ Botswana. When she was in Grade Three, her teacher elevated her to Grade Four after the first term school exams.
Her parents had to disclose to her teachers when wanted to promote her yet again that she required time to develop and it was genuine in light of the fact that when she got to college, she struggled.
This isn't the first time Dr Saurombe has been in front of her peers. She began her BCom at 16 years old and finished it at 19. She followed up immedialtely by finishing her honours and master's degrees at 20 years old and 21 respectively, both with distinctions.
As of now, she is a postdoctoral individual at the NWU's grounds in Mahikeng, in charge of educating and managing postgraduate students.
She is additionally an individual from the Executive Committee (NWU Mahikeng Chapter) of the Golden Key International Honor Society). In that limit, she is set to speak to the NWU at the Golden Key's 40th commemoration work in Las Vegas in the United States.
Sustaining her energy and duty for group benefit, Dr Saurombe is as of now associated with different group commitment initiatives. She gives talk on women empowerment, sharing her own journey to success.
She has effectively joined a doctoral partnership at North West University and has a couple of academic conferences arranged abroad for whatever is left of the year. Recently the Government of Botswana selected her minister of higher and tertiary education.
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https://m.news24.com/Drum/Archive/youngest-phd-graduate-at-23-20170728-2
http://news.nwu.ac.za/nwu-produces-one-youngest-female-phd-graduates-africa
https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1248072/meet-south-africas-youngest-female-phd-student/
https://dailyfamily.ng/musawenkosi-saurombe-becomes-africas-youngest-female-phd-holder/
