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From a mute boy to a master of languages at Stellenbosch University

​Until he was six years old, Gibson Ncube didn’t utter a word. Today, the boy who once suffered from mutism speaks four African and three international languages.

Dr Ncube now works as a lecturer in Stellenbosch University’s Department of Modern Foreign Languages, and he’s considered one of the brightest rising stars in academia.

He was “extremely delighted and honoured” to be selected along with Dr Tawanda Zininga, a biochemist, to represent Stellenbosch University in the prestigious Future Professors Programme, a flagship initiative of the Department of Higher Education and…

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