Two high schools girls outperformed their peers to become the first national winners of the South Africa Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) Olympiad, out of 2000 top accountancy learners.
Their excellent performance saw Lufuno Maboko, a Grade 11 pupil from Thohoyandou Secondary School, and Nafisa Dawood, a Grade 12 from Durban’s Orient Islamic School, become joint winners in the country’s premier inter-school accounting competition.
In recognition of their sterling work, both girls will be awarded a laptop and R2 000 each.
“I like entering competitions because the more you enter, the more you can measure your competence,” Maboko said. She plans to become an accountant.
“I love accounting. It needs a calm person because one wrong move then everything goes wrong,” she said.
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