Some of South Africa's most promising young academics will jet off to the US in the next two months to take up graduate studies at leading universities.
The 25 students from across the country were awarded the scholarships through the Fulbright programme.
Since 1953, more than 1 500 South Africans and Americans have benefited from the exchange programme between the two countries.
Announcing the beneficiaries recently, US embassy charged'affaires Don Teitelbaum said: "I hope the Americans will learn as much from you as you will from them.
'He matriculated with an average of 92 percent' "Wherever you go, enjoy it and get to see as many other places as possible.
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"Two years is too short a time to see all of the US, but at least get to see a few places other than the cities you'll be based in."
Embassy spokesperson Ombretta Tanziani said the Fulbright programme was the US government's most prestigious academic exchange programme, extending scholarships in the US to South Africans for up to two years. They could work towards either a master's degree or PhD.
She said the programme also brought 12 American students to South Africa every year to pursue research projects.
Tanziani said under the new Fulbright programme, five of the students would be pursuing master's degrees in the field of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.
'It is an opportunity to grow as an individual' Among the Fulbright scholars is Boitumelo Magolego, who will study for a master's degree in electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology.
Magolego, 23, was in 2007 profiled in the Pretoria News when he was awarded the Mandela Rhodes scholarship in 2006. The Tuks electronic engineering student was born in Ga-Rankuwa and raised in Limpopo by his grandmother.
He matriculated from Clapham High School with an average of 92 percent.
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