- Grade 12 learner Vulombe Nkuzana, 17, designed the Presidential Golf Challenge website during a job shadowing at tech company Geekulcha.
- As a reward, Nkuzana attended the Presidential Golf Challenge and a gala dinner with President Cyril Ramaphosa in Cape Town.
A 17-year-old grade 12 learner from Giyani in Limpopo took his first ever flight to Cape Town last week, where he met President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Vulombe Nkuzana, a learner at Khanyisa Education Centre in Giyani, attended the Presidential Golf Challenge (PGC) on Saturday. The trip to Cape Town was also his first visit to the city.
Nkuzana designed the PGC’s website last year, which earned him the trip. He got the task in June last year when he did a job shadowing at Geekulcha, a tech company that connects thousands of young techies across the African continent.
His reward for the work on the website was a trip to Cape Town to attend the PGC and a gala dinner with Ramaphosa and his ministers.
Nkuzana says his focus now is on his studies. He wants to pass matric well so he can study computer science at varsity next year.
He also wants to specialise in artificial intelligence (AI), which he finds highly interesting. His ultimate dream is to create a highly influential AI tool.
Nkuzana says AI is the future and encourages both young and old people to embrace it.
“I believe that at a certain point, ICT will not be taking everyone’s jobs, but it will definitely be an essential tool like a calculator to a mathematician, which everyone will use to have an edge in terms of efficiency or in another aspect,” he said.
Pictured above: Vulombe Nkuzana with President Cyril Ramaphosa and finance minister Enoch Godongwana.
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