Bulelani Brilliante Titi

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Firstly let me disclose my sense of gratitude to the USSAS for having adhered to the problem I have been faced with. I whole-heartedly appreciate what you have done for me. I am a holder of Andrew Milton’s scholarship which is administered by the University. It has granted me R1500.00 on the grounds of academic merit. I have also entered into a loan agreement of R4450.00 with the Educational Development Trust.

These prepared monies have ? R6380.00. This amount has not been sufficient for the money I owe to the University, as I am also a university resident. Something like R4000.00 was a necessity to cover the difference. As USSAS has come to my rescue, I am now happy and ecstatic to tell you that I have finished paying the monies which I still owed to the University.

I am Bulelani Brilliante Titi, a registered student of the University of Durban-Westville. I come from the township of Zwelitsha, Ciskoi?? I am 20 years old.

I come from a financially disadvantaged and hence, poorly stricken family. We are a number of 5. Three children, a mother and a grandmother. I am the eldest of the 3 children. The other two are still schooling at a secondary and primary schools respectively. My family has been a victim of the system existing within our country. We live in a matchbox house.

My family is living from hand to mouth. There is only one person who is financially active, and that is my grandmother, a social (or racial) ?? of the Askei government. Excuse me for having said that, she is ‘financially active’, by that I wanted to say she is the only breadwinner in our family. My mother has been retrenched recently. As yet she has not found any work.

In 1990, when I was doing std. 10 I was chosen by my school to represent it in the National Science ?? I am pleased to tell you that in the competition I won the school position two in the Askei “region’. At school I always got position 1, as from st. 6 up to std. 10.

In 1990, I was the only one at any school to get a C aggregate in the National Senior Certificate.

In 1991, I was registered at this institution in pursuit of a law degree (B .??). This was my first time to experience university life. I registered for 4 courses, as required by the faculty of law. I passed all of these courses with A’s and 2 C’s. This year I have registered for 6 courses following a B ? degree (2nd year). I am also an executive member of the University’s Political Science Society.

I am a dedicated, disciplined and devoted activist of the African National Congress. I have been involved in many defiance campaigns in the Bonde region, in particular. The so-called ?? state of Askei has witnessed two autocratic governments in its history. The ANC fought against the ??? laws of the Sebe regime ? by Pretoria. The ANC, as a vanguard liberation movement in overthrowing the government of Lennox Sebe. We thought that we would live a free political life in Askei. Apparently, we got the thing wrong. We witnessed a government we never ? in our region. A government which is anti-struggle, ? and ? in nature. This government is being led by a willing puppet of Pretoria, called ??. We are now embarking on a serious campaign to relinquish power from it through different ways and strategies as it has not been democratically elected and hence illegitimate from my personal angle of perception, the ? crisis in Askei which has been ? by the formation of? African Democratic Movement, can only be done away with, by the creation of an interim structure which would lead Askei to a new, non-racial, non-sexist democratic formation of our country.

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