A MATRIC learner has shown determination and strength after achieving a Bachelor\u2019s pass, including a distinction for Afrikaans, the same subject she wrote on the day her 23-year-old brother died in a motorbike accident.<\/p>\n
While Robin Geldenhuys, 18, a learner from Grassdale High School in Grassy Park, was preparing to leave home for her final paper for her National Senior Certificate, her mother, Sylvia Geldenhuys, received the tragic news that her brother, Kyle van Schalkwyk, had tragically died in a motorbike accident in Southfield.<\/p>\n
While Sylvia stood at the accident scene, a brave Robin stepped into the examination room and did exactly what her brother wanted, to complete schooling and achieve a Bachelor\u2019s pass and receive a distinction.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had tears while writing my exam, but I told myself he would have wanted me to be here, to finish school,\u201d Robin told the Cape Argus moments after receiving her results.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wanted me to pass with a Bachelor\u2019s and to get a distinction in Afrikaans, and that is exactly the results I received. I remained focused.\u201d<\/p>\n
A week after her examinations were completed, another of her brother\u2019s wishes and dreams for his baby sister was realised when members from his biking fraternity, “No Problems MCC”, gave her a fairytale send-off, with close to fifty bikers showing up.<\/p>\n
Sylvia added: \u201cHe said he wanted there to be ten bikers at her matric farewell, and after his passing, it was so marvellous that they (the club) rallied together to give her a beautiful matric send-off.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey called him Choppie, and they said we are doing this for Choppie\u2019s sister, and there were close to fifty bikers present, and we were so grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said upon receiving her daughter\u2019s results, she could only have imagined her son\u2019s excitement and how she had persevered the morning of that examination paper.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The mom shared: \u201cI said to Robin, he would have been so proud of you; it would have been like he was writing the exam.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThat morning when the accident happened, Robin had to write her last paper in Afrikaans, and I said to her, see the achievement you have for that particular subject.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was not easy, and the principal asked her that morning, are you ready to write? And she said yes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sylvia said her daughter\u2019s desire was to pursue a teaching career, but that they had faith in either her receiving a bursary or for her to be able to pay for her own studies once she became employed.<\/p>\n
The proud mom added: \u201cShe is a child who, when she comes from school, will not eat first; she will do her homework first.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI always tell her that hard work pays off in the end. She has always been a top-achiever learner.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A MATRIC learner has shown determination and strength after achieving a Bachelor\u2019s pass, including a distinction for Afrikaans,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[13537,13535,13539,4858,13543,13540,13541,13536,13534,8293,13544,13533,131,13542,13538],"class_list":{"0":"post-21734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-afrikaans","9":"tag-bachelors-pass","10":"tag-ca-brave","11":"tag-cape-argus","12":"tag-choppie","13":"tag-grassdale-high-school","14":"tag-grassy-park","15":"tag-matric","16":"tag-matric-learner","17":"tag-national-senior-certificate","18":"tag-no-problems-mcc","19":"tag-robin-geldenhuys","20":"tag-south-africa","21":"tag-southfield","22":"tag-sylvia-geldenhuys"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}