While others focused their attention on the recent protests one CPUT student had very different things on his mind.
During the third semester BTech student Sibabalwe Nqamla started his Donate a Pad Project (DAPP) and after a few weeks of collecting had collected around 100 packs of sanitary towels.
Each of the brightly marked collection boxes were decorated with a poem about a girl called Akhona who missed school because of her period.
Sibabalwe wrote the poem and co-ordinated the project with fellow student Karabo Yankho Ciocha.
The pair came up with the idea after Sibabalwe was involved in a similar project at his alma mater, Tshwane University of Technology.
“The nursing students there told me about some of the things that women went through and the illnesses that they could face because they don’t have access to sanitary towels,” he says.
“When I came to CPUT I saw that it was also a problem here and I decided to launch DAPP.”
The lucky recipients of the boxes were students from Masibambisane High School in Delft where a grateful Deputy Principal Nomfundo Mzazi accepted the donation.
“We received a similar donation from a company a while back and that stock was running low. We were trying to limit the number of pads we were handing out so that we always had for emergencies. This donation from an angel has come at just the right time which means our prayers were answered,” she explains.
Sibabalwe says he selected the Science and Mathematics speciality school because it was recommended by people who donated to DAPP.
