No challenge too great for Uitenhage High matriculant
Venedro de Koker has defied the odds and attained a bachelor’s pass — and now she wants to be a teacher like her late adoptive mom
She was only a few hours old when her mother abandoned her at Dora Nginza Hospital 18 years ago.
Walking home from school, at the age of 13, she was hit by a speeding car, and at 17, a drunk driver hit her with his car on the side of the road...
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