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They studied for six years, only to discover they couldn’t graduate

12 February 2020 - 09:00 By Philani Nombembe
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Walter Sisulu University says it’s worked out a solution, but students have been left in embittered limbo.
Walter Sisulu University says it’s worked out a solution, but students have been left in embittered limbo.
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Nineteen medical orthotics and prosthetics students who enrolled for a degree at Walter Sisulu University discovered after six years of studying that their course was not accredited.

This meant they could not graduate.

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