\u201cMoet nooit toelaat dat jou omstandighede jou onderkry nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shannon Stoffels (19) van die Klein Dassenbergrylaan-plakkerskamp het haar klein gemeenskap trots gemaak toe sy die beste slaagsyfer van al die dorp se 2023-matrikulante behaal het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBaie aande wat daar niks op die tafel was om te eet nie, het my net verder gemotiveer,\u201d vertel di\u00e9 slimkop oor wat haar gedryf het tydens verlede jaar se eksamen vir die Nasionale Seniorsertifikaat (NSS). Sy het aan Saxonsea Sekond\u00ear matrikuleer en haar eksamen met Shannon, wat vanjaar menslike hulpbronne aan die Universiteit Stellenbosch studeer, is deur die ander inwoners van die buurt die \u201clelie van die duine\u201d gedoop \u2013 d\u00edt omdat die plakkerskamp waar hulle woon, tussen Atlantis se bekende duine is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDit was baie moeilik,\u201d vertel sy, \u201cveral omdat hier geen elektrisiteit is nie en ek moes baie nagte met net \u2019n kers vir lig studeer, maar die opvoeders by die skool het ook baie gehelp deur vir my LED-ligte te gee. Ek moes die ligte dan by die skool laai. Ek hoop my deursettingsvermo\u00eb kan as \u2019n boodskap aan baie ander kinders dien \u2013 dat jy nooit moet opgee nie en eerder harder moet werk,\u201d vertel sy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \n Weskus Nuus<\/i> het Shannon en haar gesin by hul woning besoek. In daardie stadium was die slimkop onbewus dat sy die slimste in Atlantis is, maar die nuus het soos \u2019n veldbrand in die buurt versprei en gou-gou het die bure om die top leerder saamgedrom en haar toegejuig. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Inwoners s\u00ea Shannon se prestasie beteken gewis baie vir hulle almal veral omdat mense hul neuse optrek vir inwoners van di\u00e9 buurt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Juliana Scheepers, die \u201clelie van die duine\u201d se ma, s\u00ea haar kind se uitslae en die feit dat sy die beste van al Atlantis se matrikulante gevaar het, is bewys dat harde werk lonend is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMy kind het klokslag soggens voor 07:00 uit die huis skool toe gestap \u2013 of dit re\u00ebn, die son skyn of donderstorms daar buite was,\u201d vertel sy trots. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEk het baie nagte met haar gesit en my kind jammer gekry \u2013 veral in die winter. 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