Vusumzi Zibi

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This is to trace and illustrate my background and also to expose the history and the conditions under which my family finds in.  As one of the students getting assistance from USSAS I would like to demonstrate the way I will use the amount offered to me.

I have been, for a quite a number of years, struggling on how to get the books required by the University.  It gives me pleasure to find out that I will be able to buy text-books required.  Although I was depending on making copies of the books required I have managed for a number of the years to do well in my academic activities, since I am doing my third year in B. Admin.

At this stage I would like to state that I am coming from Trauskei.  My name is Vusumzi Zibi and I have lived and grew up in the Bautustau of Transkei.  I was born in 1968 on the date of 26 March.

It is the fact that my family is in financial crisis.  In financial crisis because first of all, it is physically broken, physically broken in the sense that separation between my parents occurred at a time when I was two years old.  Since then I lived with my grandmother as well as my father.  Since my father is deformed, he could not work but rather depend on the pension.  At home we are 3, two being my sisters and being the last one.

This question is automatically illustrated above, as stated that my family is depending on pensions, which is insufficient to cover the family needs such as food.  The only person who because of great assistance in my school fees is my guardian in the house of Nancy Nontsikllelo Shange.  The role she had played is such important that I am at the University because of her means.  She is working in South African Commercial Catering and Allied Workers Union, which is organizing the shop workers.

I have done my lower level education in Mkozo Junior Secondary School in 1985.  And I have completed my senior level of education Mayibenye High School which is in Flagstaff in Transkei.  This was in 1988.  From these I moved to the University of Durban-Westville.  This was through the financial assistance that I received from South African Student’s Education Trust, which was recommendable although insufficient.  This was in 1989 and it is regrettable that I failed that year but the following years I managed.

I am involved in the struggle for the liberation of our country.  In our community I am a member of the A.N.C. Youth League, which is existing to enhance the objectives of the ANC. In the campus I am a member of South African Student Congress which is promoting student unity.

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