A motto to live by

South Africa -- Njabulo NtshaliNtshali, 21, was born a sickly child in need of an urgent blood transfusion.

He grew up in the harsh KwaNdengezi township outside Pinetown and has lived with his mother, a child-care worker, at an orphanage in Durban since he was 10. He tried to join a karate class when he was seven but was told he was "too weak".

Not discouraged, he took up Taekwon-Do, and has risen through the ranks to become the highest ranked black Taekwon-Do competitor in the country.

"(...) There were people who thought I couldn't do it, but I'm better (at martial arts) than they are now. It just shows that the human spirit, if it wants to do it, can do anything - that's the motto I live by."

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