From herding livestock to sailing the world

Boy from the rural Eastern Cape grows up to become experienced yachtsman and skipper in iconic race

Sibusiso Sizatu spent the first nine years of his life herding his family’s livestock and hunting with his siblings in the rural Eastern Cape.

Without a birth certificate, he was unable to start school until the age of 10, when he moved from Qumbu, outside Mthatha, to Masimuphelele in Cape Town...

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