THE FUSE

Science is difficult. Just 3.7% of matric science students achieved a distinction for the subject in 2016. But often the struggle of individuals is due more to the failings of teaching methods than personal shortcoming – as Bathabile Mpofu discovered when her high school education hadn’t prepared her for university science. She passed in the end, but the cause of her shaky start continued to bug her. So while doing her MBA at UCT last year, Mpofu decided to apply her entrepreneurial skills to solving the problem. #BeautifulNews