Young car enthusiast Thembelani Zondo is hoping to shift his aspiration to become an engineer into top gear.
Meet Thembelani Zondo, a 21-year-old from KwaZulu-Natal who has built his own “Bugatti Shark” car from scratch using his hands and old material that he bought with his R350 Social Relief of Distress grant – after dropping out of school in Grade 11.
“Since Grade 4 I have always loved to experiment with building new things from scratch. That year I created a small remote-controlled car from wire. Seeing the car move grew my passion and love for cars. I knew then that I wanted to build a car that would fit a human being. Years went by and while doing Grade 10 in 2019 I entered the Innovation Awards after building my spiral galaxy with the nine regions of space that Asgard holds authority over… I came third place in the awards,” says Zondo.
He was given a certificate and a study bursary by the MKI, and was relocated to Inanda, in northwest eThekwini, to a boarding school, Ohlange High School, from his hometown Ekwaluseni High School, with the promise that his mechanical skills were to be nurtured and his academic needs catered for.
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