When University of Pretoria (UP) master’s student Qiniso Sithole laces up his running shoes for his first Comrades Marathon on 14 June 2026, he will not simply be running 90-odd kilometres between Durban and Pietermaritzburg – he will be running for every late-night financial calculation and every moment he wondered whether he would find the money to get to the finish line of his degree.
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