Zandile Zungu

Sandile Donald Muziwenkosi Zungu (born 10 February 1967) is a South African businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is the founder and executive chairman of Zungu Investments Company (Zico), ownernof AmaZulu Football Club, and a key figure in Sizekhaya Holdings, the consortium awarded South Africa’s National Lottery licence in 2025. As president of the Black Business Council and a member of the BRICS Business Council, Zungu is recognized for his contributions to black economic empowerment and South African commerce. Quotes And I firmly believe that if we get our soccer right as an industry, not only will the pride of the people be restored, but most importantly it will be able to elevate South African soccer to be one of the best on the continent and the best in the world What we want is a united Safa, and that remains our main interest. Any person who wants to run is free to do so, and ultimately the regions will decide Safa welcomes Sandile Zungu’s presidential election challenge, July 21,2026,IOL, by Michael Sherman we then invited a couple of students from neighbouring schools to listen and we thought it was a very good way of demystifying leadership, brining eminent persons to share with the young people that whatever problems they were experiencing, they also experienced those problems. They overcame adversity to become people of substance. It really is a good school. But people knew as well, look you know, you don't just enter there, you must have good results, that type of thing, and you must be prepared to face the discipline that comes with it. So I had very good standard 8 results from my secondary school, Mafumbuka. And my brother incidentally was also at Vukuzakhe, so it was easy as a reference point to just follow him. My particular passion is education and leadership development. Other issues like housing, Aids, whatever, in as much as they touch me, my preference is to focus my resources and my time, financial and otherwise, on education. Honestly, I really believe that the path to development, whether at a personal level or at a societal level, is through education. If we in the country can educate our people, I believe that in a generation we would resolve most of our problems, whether they be illiteracy, innumeracy, just basic things like basic hygiene and all the health issues that go with it. There must be, at the centre of any philanthropic initiative, there must be sustainability. If something cannot be sustained, it's not worth it Obviously depending on the programmes that one runs, I will then be able to leverage on those resources to get third-party partnerships, or third-party finance...(indistinct)... because the demand is just too huge. What Hilton did to me was to really sharpen the contradictions in our society. The only reason why I would never use the word poor to define my background is because my parents would never allow me to go to bed on any empty stomach. They did their best under the circumstances, so it would be very poor treatment to their efforts to say my background was poor. But it was really an environment of limited means So in a way, whilst I rejoiced at having access, my heart was sore that hundreds of my childhood friends who can't even begin to dream about those things Hilton College I'm really grateful because one, it sharpened my understanding of the contradictions in society, that there was one world that was extremely affluent, and that there was another world which I knew up to then which was extremely underprivileged I would like to believe my spirituality knows no boundaries, and as an African, I'm really very proud of my roots. I always say my roots are in KwaHlabisa, where my great-grandfather's umbilical cord, my grandfather's umbilical cord, my father's umbilical cord really fell. I believe in healthy eating habits. I really watch what I eat, but most importantly I exercise a lot It's got a negative effect on productivity, there's absolutely no doubt about it. But as a social network tool, it's absolutely useful. I wish I could speak more of Zulu but with my kids at private schools, you get notes from the teachers saying please engage your kids more in English. So you are torn between mother language issues and helping your kids to deal with schooling issues. I was taught by my person never to take shortcuts in life, to work hard for everything, so as long as anything that I do feeds into that framework of not taking short cuts, and there's hard work, then I'm comfortable, I can justify anything. There's no way you can do an ArcelorMittal deal and pretend that it's a private deal. It's of a scale that people will talk about it and I do appreciate that. Transcript of interview with Sandile Zungu,Monday, August 17, 2010,IOL, by Ingi Salgado External links Category:Living people Category:1967 births Category:Businesspeople from South Africa Category:Philanthropists from South Africa