{"id":20701,"date":"2013-06-26T17:03:20","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T15:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/against-all-odds-ubuntu-education-fund-in-port-elizabeth\/"},"modified":"2013-06-26T17:03:20","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T15:03:20","slug":"against-all-odds-ubuntu-education-fund-in-port-elizabeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/against-all-odds-ubuntu-education-fund-in-port-elizabeth\/","title":{"rendered":"Against All Odds \u2013 Ubuntu Education Fund in Port Elizabeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"wpsr_floatbts_anchor\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In 1994 a 17 year old American scholar Jacob Lief arrived in South Africa to observe the first democratic elections. Jacob returned to <a title=\"Cape Town\" class=\"aal\" target=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.MyCapeTown.co.za\">Cape Town<\/a> in 1997 only to find out that the job he had been offered was a scam.<\/p>\n<p>Disillusioned Jacob got on a train to <a title=\"Port Elizabeth\" class=\"aal\" target=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/cgi-bin\/search.cgi?keywords=Port+Elizabeth\">Port Elizabeth<\/a>, met Banks Gwaxula in a shebeen and was taken in by Banks to stay in his Zwide home.<\/p>\n<p>Working as a teacher Lief saw a great hunger in his pupils for knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Gwaxula and Lief then came up with a plan to invest in local children and <a title=\"Ubuntu Education Fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/cgi-bin\/search.cgi?keywords=Ubuntu\">Ubuntu<\/a> was born in 1999.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mype.co.za\/new\/category\/entertainment\/pe-videos\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-23707\" alt=\"YouTube logo Port Elizabeth\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/0d2e9_YouTube_logo_PE.png\" width=\"54\" height=\"55\" \/><\/a><strong>Uploaded to Youtube by:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/eNCAAgainstAllOdds\" target=\"_blank\">eNCAAgainstAllOdds<\/a><br \/><strong>Posted to MyPE by:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\">Alan Straton<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Submit your favourite <a title=\"Port Elizabeth\" class=\"aal\" target=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/cgi-bin\/search.cgi?keywords=Port+Elizabeth\">Port Elizabeth<\/a>, Uitenhage and Despatch videos for consideration for publication on MyPE by filling in the form below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mype.co.za\/new\/category\/entertainment\/pe-videos\/\">Click here<\/a> to see more <a href=\"http:\/\/mype.co.za\/new\/category\/entertainment\/pe-videos\/\">PE Videos<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1994 a 17 year old American scholar Jacob Lief arrived in South Africa to observe the first democratic elections. 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