Polar ship commander's voyage to success leads past storms and icebergs
Knowledge Bengu, commander of the SA Agulhas II, has a new degree to go with his years of hard-earned experience on the bridge
07 May 2023 - 00:00
It’s taken years of sweat and blood, but township kid Knowledge Bengu is now living his dream — at the helm of the SA Agulhas II icebreaker, plying some of the most forbidding seas on the planet. ..
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