From walking long distances to school to being part of The CEO SleepOut™: meet Bongani Sibuyi
From walking 4km's daily to school to running a company that is able to participate in The Sun International CEO SleepOut™ - learn more about Bongani Sibuyi, Managing Director of Ultimate Training Consultants (Pty) Ltd.
While enshrined as a basic human right in the Constitution of South Africa, education is something that Ultimate Training Consultants' Bongani Sibuyi doesn't take for granted: “It is very close to our hearts, that’s why we even have a project in our company called “Learn 1000”, where each month, we’ll be training 1000 kids from the rural areas and the township. We’re training them on web design, animation and basic computer literacy.”
Bongani adds: “It is very important, given where I come from: I used to walk 4 km to school every day. I’d get there, I’d be tired but still, there was that drive I wanted something better, I wanted to experience something different from the whole thing. So that’s the reason why education is so close to my heart, because I know what it can do for one’s life.”
Bongani Sibuyi considers himself a social entrepreneur from the small rural town of Bushbuckridge in Mpumalanga.
He started off his primary school at Mo Mashigo Primary School, later moving to in Mzangedwa High School where he matriculated when he was only 16 years old. It was from there that he decided to move to Joburg to study Information Technology at PC Training & Business College, later also studying Psychology at the University of Johannesburg.
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