The curtain came down on one of the most important projects in the University – a feeding scheme provided by a well-known charity organisation, the Gift of the Givers. The feeding scheme ran for 11 days and was intended for the most critical part of the registration period. Members of the Department of Marketing and Communications and staff from the Facilities Department dedicated their time and served food to 850-950 students per day.
Some of these students were Thelile and Thalente Mlambo, twins from Mbazwana, at Mhlabuyalingana, northern KwaZulu-Natal. The twins collected their food on 3 February 2026. They are doing their final year in Nature Conservation. Thalente said the staff were “so welcoming and cool”. The twins saved money by collecting the Gift of the Givers-sponsored lunch. They appreciated the gesture and requested that it be repeated next year.