Tribute to Legong Raditlhokwa
Tuesday, February 03, 2015
Raditlhokwa died last week after short illness
Legong or “Shuffle” as his friends and school mates nicknamed him was a gifted, brilliant humble industrious, creative and exceptional student. For instance, “Log” wrote part of his COSC exams whilst hospitalized but still managed to obtain a 1st class.
Here was a brilliant student with an analytic mind and good public speaking and debating skills which would make him a good lawyer, so I recommended to him to think of doing law as a career, but Log as an independent thinker and assertive person would have none of it.
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