Thapelo Teele's success is partly credited to getting adequate sleep during the toughest parts of his thesis work.Thapelo Teele's master's degree was upgraded to a PhD by the University of Cape Town due to his thorough research.
The bubbly Teele spent most of his schooling years in the Eastern Cape, before trekking to the Western Cape to begin his journey in higher education.Teele recalls how he would often delay filing returned books because he would be so engulfed in the encyclopaedia and National Geographic magazines at his school library."As a legal practitioner, his vocabulary was quite extensive and, as a way to try and beat him, I would read the dictionary to expand my vocabulary.
He appealed and applied for readmission – a process that gave him the tools he needed to eventually pursue his PhD.Without realising it, that academic exclusion and appeal process was important because it got me to this point.