Students hail from all over South Africa and Africa including cities such as Polokwane, Cape Town and Durban and countries such as Namibia, Nigeria, Lesotho and Zimbabwe.
Dignitaries in attendance at the ceremony included the Dean of Health Sciences at NMMU Prof Victor Exner, the Director of the School of Lifestyle Sciences at NMMU Prof Rosa du Randt, CIES Senior Manager of International Relations, Mr Vincent Monnier, as well as Advocate Daryl Newton and Dr John Burger who are facilitators on the course.
NMMU Programme Coordinator Vernon Oosthuizen commented as follows: “It is essential that we open our Programme to the whole of South Africa as well as to our neighbouring countries. In six years, we have progressed from a local programme with students who were mostly from the Eastern Cape to a genuinely international course.