Zimbabwean O' Level Student Tops Cambridge World Rankings
A learner at Masiyephambili College scored the highest mark in Food and Nutrition in the Cambridge Ordinary Level November 2021 examinations.
Unathi Viki, a Lower Sixth Sciences learner scored ninety-nine (99) per cent, becoming the second learner at the school to receive such an award.
reports that Viki also scored six A stars in subjects such as Maths, Chemistry, and Physics among other subjects.
Speaking during a ceremony to hand over a certificate of appreciation the school head, Dr Kesiwe Phuthi said:
We are here today to celebrate a great day, our student Unathi Viki got the top of the World award in food and nutrition, we are very humbled to have won this Cambridge award.
We look forward to greater things happening especially for Unathi our student and many other students.
Besides the food and nutrition award that she got, Unathi scored six A stars at O’ Levels which is a great achievement indeed.
The Vice-chairman of the board of the Masiyephambili group of schools, junior and college, Babongile Sitshoni, said:
We are very much elated with what has happened, we received the award for Unathi Viki who was the best in food and nutrition in the whole World Cambridge O’Level examinations that she did.
The World is inhabited by almost eight billion people and it’s outstanding that a student achieved the best results among every human being in the World whether they wrote or didn’t write in whatever circumstances but Unathi made us proud as Masiyephambili.
We would like to also thank the parents of Unathi, the parents have entrusted us with all their kids from junior right up to the College school and Unathi is the second child to be with us and the results that she has achieved mean the trust that she has in us, we have also reciprocated back and as the school, the teachers have cultivated the young mind.
Sitshoni exhorted other children to emulate what Unathi did so that the school continues churning out outstanding results.
The school board has promised to pay Unathi’s Cambridge Advanced Level examinations fees next year.
Meanwhile, Unathi’s mother, Nyaradzo Viki, said her daughter had raised Zimbabwe’s flag high. She said:
I am so happy about the achievement she has made, getting on top of the World means a lot to the family, the school, and the country.
I would like to thank her for raising the flag so high, the Masiyephambili flag, the Viki flag, and the Zimbabwean flag.
