Aniek Nieuwenhuis, 24, a fine art student at UCT's Michaelis School of Fine Art, will graduate with a full suite of distinctions for her academic programme.
Nieuwenhuis had 50 operations to get her life back on track."I underwent many operations. I needed to learn to take control of my body again. I needed to learn to walk and even to eat. I needed to readjust my body completely," she said.
"I suffered from a bit of 'imposter syndrome'. I felt like I fooled this institution into thinking I was good enough," she said of her academic career. Nieuwenhuis said achieving excellence was simple: love your degree and studying won't be a chore. She credits her academic performance on the fact that she enjoyed all her subjects and could relate to them in more ways than one.
Nieuwenhuis has used her artistic talents to open up about her trauma. Last month she put together a photographic display for an exhibition titled Skin Deep at Gallery One11 in Cape Town at the invitation of artist SaySay.Love.
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