South Africa has so many talented creative minds waiting to be discovered, and a lot of the time the creativity is awakened by a need to escape poverty.
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Hendrick Chebanga, is a South African artist and self-taught engineer who makes model cars from corrugated iron sheets and scrap metals.
“I make anything with wheels or without wheels so long as they send me a photo.”
Chebanga creates real-world replica vehicles such as excavators, trucks, motorbikes and land cruises.
The talented South African has become a local sensation with his social media page – Hendrick Africa Crafts Works – garnering a following of 24 000 members.
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Picture: Facebook / Hendrick Africa Crafts Works