Halala: Noxolo Grootboom Granted an Honorary Doctorate From Nelson Mandela University

• Retired television anchor Noxolo Grootboom has been given an honorary doctorate in philosophy from Nelson Mandela University
• Grootboom retired last year following a 27-year-long career in journalism and her contribution to journalism and language has been acknowledged with the honorary degree
• She has also received a doctorate from Rhodes University, she was conferred a degree of Doctor of Letters

Retired television anchor Noxolo Grootboom has been given an honorary doctorate in philosophy from Nelson Mandela University for her contribution to journalism and language.

Grootboom retired last year following a 27-year-long career in journalism. She was given the doctorate in acknowledgement of her amazing career and contribution to the IsiXhosa language.

She has also received a doctorate from Rhodes University, she was conferred a degree of Doctor of Letters according to News24.

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Grootboom was born in Lady Frere in the Eastern Cape on 8 October 1960, in 1981 she moved to Soweto where she studied at a computer academy and took up a position at the SABC as a typist.

An opportunity came knocking in 1990 when she was to read a news bulletin in place of the late news anchor Mam' Thandi Mesetywa.

She did such a good job that the broadcaster asked her to continue as an anchor on the isiXhosa news.

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