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ALUMNI FEATURES

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A New Life in the Netherlands

BCom (Logistics and Transport Economics) alumna Almarize Kleu from Gqeberha
graduated in 2020 and moved to the Netherlands a year ago at the age of 23. It
has been the adventure of a lifetime. By Heather Dugmore

efore moving to The first three months were the
Eindhoven in the hardest, as she was part of a team that
Netherlands on 15 worked only in Dutch. “My Afrikaans
“BJuly 2022, the only helped a bit and over the course of a
time I’d been outside of South Africa year I learnt Dutch, and I now fluently
was a trip to Mozambique, so it was work in it. What is so surprising is how
a huge move for me,” says Almarize, quickly we learn a new language by
who applied for and was offered a speaking it every day.”
position as a supply chain engineer at She settled in quickly, thanks to
Royal Philips International, which has the local South African community.
its headquarters in Eindhoven. “I was surprised by how many South

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