Grad Week 2025 | Zandri Swanepoel — Law, Purpose, and What Being a Matie Means
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In this Grad Week 2025 podcast episode, recorded on Friday, 12 December 2025, we sit down with Zandri Swanepoel, who graduated with her Master of Laws (LLM) — a qualification shaped by discipline, depth of thought, long nights of study, and a strong commitment to justice and scholarship.
Joined in studio by her closest support system — her mom Yolanda Swanepoel, her dad Martin Swanepoel, and her fiancé MJ van Staden — Zandri reflects on the real journey behind postgraduate study: the pressure, the sacrifices, the moments of doubt, and the people who carried her through every chapter.
As part of MFM 92.6’s Grad Week 2025 series, this conversation goes beyond the qualification to explore identity, growth, values, and what it means to leave Stellenbosch as a Matie equipped for the world beyond campus. Zandri also shares what being a Matie has meant to her — and how that experience will shape her path forward.
Once a Matie, always a Matie.
Joined in studio by her closest support system — her mom Yolanda Swanepoel, her dad Martin Swanepoel, and her fiancé MJ van Staden — Zandri reflects on the real journey behind postgraduate study: the pressure, the sacrifices, the moments of doubt, and the people who carried her through every chapter.
As part of MFM 92.6’s Grad Week 2025 series, this conversation goes beyond the qualification to explore identity, growth, values, and what it means to leave Stellenbosch as a Matie equipped for the world beyond campus. Zandri also shares what being a Matie has meant to her — and how that experience will shape her path forward.
Once a Matie, always a Matie.
