Duo Celebrate Summa Cum Laude Success
FOCUSED: Monwabisi Luthuli and Nkaiseng Mokhele both graduated Summa Cum Laude with an Advanced Diploma in Marketing.
Friday, 08 April 2022
Academic success comes in different forms for everyone, and Summa Cum Laude is one of the highest honours to be bestowed on a student.
The Business and Management Sciences faculty celebrated this success with two students today.
Monwabisi Luthuli is a well-known figure at CPUT since he was once a popular SRC president. Luthuli says that while student politics was thrilling, he wasn’t achieving the academic success he knew he could achieve early on in his studies.
“I was very active as a student leader, and that compromised my academics, but then as I matured, I decided to come back to CPUT and completed my diploma, and passed all my subjects with distinction, and then I continued to the Advanced Diploma and also just passed Summa Cum Laude now,” he says.
“It has been an absolute great pleasure returning to CPUT.”
A fellow Advanced Diploma in Marketing classmate, Nkaiseng Mokhele, also received the top honour. She says she has always been a good student and achieved excellent marks because she listened to lecturers.
“Dedication, focusing and doing what the lecturers tell you to do has been my recipe for success. The pandemic was tough for me because I lost loved ones during this time, but I told myself that my goal is to graduate.”
To pass Summa Cum Laude, a student must pass all their subjects with distinction on the first try.
Luthuli and Mokhele were part of a cohort of 431 students who graduated during the afternoon ceremony at CPUT’s Bellville campus today.
Written by Lauren Kansley
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