Alex lad sets his eyes on ‘Bringing Up Rugby’
Wanderers Rugby Club coach and Alex lad Menzi Zungu want to establish a rugby development academy that will help in ‘Bringing Up Rugby’ to the fore.
A young Alex rugby coach harbours dreams of one day turning professional and ultimately coaching at the highest possible level of the game.
Menzi Zungu (19) of East Bank and a former Matric Class of 2021 learner at Sandown High School has his sights set on establishing an academy to grow rugby talent and already holds a Level 1 World Rugby Coaching Licence which he obtained on December 2.
Zungu, who is a former player for the Alex Wolves Rugby Club in Alexandra, currently coaches at the Wanderers Rugby Club in Illovo and has a blossoming relationship with the Blue Bulls Rugby Union to scout players in Alexandra. “I recently took six girls from Alexandra to join the Bulls coaching clinics in order to hone their rugby skills,” Zungu said.
The same girls will be returning to Pretoria in January next year for further participation in coaching clinics that will be hosted by the Bulls union, said Zungu, whose first name is Menziwezintozonke [the creator of all things possible] and believes he is destined for greater things in life.
To prove he is destined for greater heights, Zungu’s business plan that he hopes to put in place for the establishment of an academy to churn out talented rugby players, won the best Business Plan Competition of law firm ENSafrica.
The competition was organised in partnership with Visa and Zungu’s plan came out tops. “When I apply my mind to something, I always ensure I do it perfectly – hence my name Menziwezintozonke.
“After winning the ENSafrica-Visa competition, I want to seriously apply my mind towards putting this paper [business] plan into motion towards the establishment of the rugby development academy and an agency to manage the players.
“This is the second time [ENSafrica competition] that my plan comes out tops. I was recently part of the Khulisa Social Solutions programme of entrepreneurial development in the township and this same plan came out tops. It’s about time I put the plan into action,” Zungu told Alex News in an interview soon after winning the ENSafrica competition. The rugby development academy he hopes to establish will be known as Binging Up Rugby and has a logo for it already.
