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HE’S full of smiles as he plays with the family dogs on the lawn – and the teenager has every reason to be happy.
Zandré Smith from Randburg racked up a full house of As in his matric exams, a total of eight distinctions that even took him by surprise.
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“I thought I might get three distinctions,” he says. “It was a huge surprise when I got eight.”
It was also a Herculean task. Zandré (18) has severe type A haemophilia, a genetic disorder that prevents his blood from clotting normally and causes him to suffer from bleeding joints and arthritis.
Activities as simple as walking, writing or typing can cause his joints to bleed internally.
Matric was tough for Zandré, who went