Ex-Windvogel resident refused to quit despite medical school applications being rejected 13 times

Woman’s long fight to become a doctor finally pays off

Being born into poverty did not deter Jaqueline Matroos from attaining her dream of becoming a doctor.

For 13 years, Matroos’s applications to study medicine were consistently rejected by medical schools in SA...

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