How South African Students Can Win Scholarships to Study in the USA
Sipho’s Story: From Soweto to Stanford
Take Sipho, for example. Growing up in Soweto, Sipho had always been fascinated by technology. His family couldn’t afford to send him abroad, but he refused to let that stop him. He researched tirelessly, applied to multiple programs, and eventually secured a Fulbright Scholarship to study computer science at Stanford University.

“It wasn’t easy,” he recalls. “I faced rejection letters, language test challenges, and endless application forms. But every ‘no’ brought me closer to the ‘yes’ that changed my life.”