Tryphosa Ramano dedicates UJ Honorary Doctorate to the grandmother who taught her to lead
Reflecting on her childhood hustle of selling sweets to buy her own school shoes, Ms Ramano dedicated the honour to the two women who shaped her: her grandmother and her mother. She noted that being a young mother herself did not hinder her; rather, it gifted her with the urgency and perspective required to break into a profession where Black women were once underrepresented.
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