A South African academic, Prof. Mamokgethi Phakeng, has indicated interest in helping to nurture a 14-year-old math genius.
The boy named Sibahle Zwane had displayed mathematical prowess in a video which went viral when he gave the accurate answers to each calculus question thrown at him.
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Phakeng who watched the video, commenced a search for the bright South African kid, saying that she would like to pay the boy’s tuition.