A successful future starts with a dream
BLOUBOSRAND – Steven Nemasango hails from Bloubosrand and believes that education is the key to accomplishing your dreams.
For a long time, Steven Nemasango had a dream – he envisioned himself with a university degree one day.
The father of two from Bloubosrand in Johannesburg saw his dream come true recently when he bagged his first degree at 40 – and he believes this is just the start of his academic accolades.
“A man who doesn’t dream doesn’t have a future, and when your dream doesn’t scare you, it is not a dream,” Nemasango said to describe his bumpy road to success.
His passion to pursue a career in information technology was put on hold when his parents divorced, leading to financial hardship and life in a rural village where he grew up under difficult circumstances.
“I remember waking up at 2am to plough the fields and at 6am I would prepare for school.”
A serious lecture on life from his mother changed his perspective on education. He no longer settled for average marks and pushed boundaries to pass very well in his Cambridge high school exams.
With the hospitality industry providing a more affordable career alternative to IT, he enrolled soon after high school and outclassed his stream by emerging the best student in his class.
Testament to his hard work and determination is his appointment as assistant general manager at De Hoek Country Hotel in Magaliesburg in February this year.
His belief that your situation can only be changed by education, led him to not lose sight of his goal to achieve a BComm Information Technology Management qualification from higher education institution, Mancosa.
On the challenges he encountered to obtain his degree, he said, “I sponsored myself and there were times when I was in arrears with payment to obtain results to proceed to the next semester.”
Nemasango plans to pursue his masters and doctoral degrees and venture into entrepreneurship with the possibility of owning a guest house, lodge or hotel one day.
“Our races in life are not the same. As long as you have set a goal, nothing can stop you.”
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