No mere flight of fancy: Son of airport cleaner becomes a pilot

His disadvantaged background did not stand in his way of dreaming big. Raised by a father who was a cleaner and mother who worked as a domestic worker encouraged 25-year-old Nkululeko Sokweba to always aim higher.

And from the age of four, Sokweba said he knew exactly what he wanted to do with his life: become a pilot.

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