Ilunga Mukendi From the Congo to the Shark Tank!
Ilunga Mukendi From the Congo to the Shark Tank! Born in the Democratic Republic of Congo and raised in South Africa, Ilunga Mukendi joined Glenwood High School on a cricket scholarship, and instead, became their rugby star. This is the remarkable story about the ‘Green Machine’s’ flying winger. The headlines screamed ‘Ilunga Mukendi scored a hat-trick as Glenwood High School thrashed Maritzburg College 57-12 at Kings Park’, and ‘The Green Machine crush College’. So good was Ilunga’s display in a rare televised schoolboy match at the Shark Tank, that suddenly the boy who was born in Lubumbashi in southern DR Congo, had hit the radar. Glenwood Old Boys around the world began asking across social media platforms just who this flying winger was?
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Game On Magazine, June: Issue 17, 2015
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