Former Warriors keeper and now Highlands Park captain Tapuwa Kapini has ventured into the motor repair business.
Kapini who has spent the greater part of his career in South Africa had not planned to star this kind of business, but rather found himself accidentally owning a workshop.
Kapini co-owns a workshop that fixes gearboxes in Pomona, Kempton Park.
The Highlands skipper had no intention of getting into fixing gearboxes until his own Ford Ranger ruptured a gearbox some years ago.
According to a report in Sowetan, his attempts to fix it hit a snag when the dealership slapped him with a R46000 quotation, without knowing they were planting the seed for a business in the Zimbabwean shot-stopper’s mind. Kapini took matters into his own hands.
“My Ford Ranger had a had gearbox problem, when I took it to a Ford dealership they quoted me R46000 to install a new one,” he told Sowetan. “I could not afford that amount.
“I went to a friend of mine who had little knowledge of fixing cars. We took the gearbox out, thoroughly cleaned and examined it and put in some screws.
That’s how I got into this business. Today, we co-own Trec Gearbox Specialist business, and it is registered.”
The ex-Platinum Stars and AmaZulu keeper is planning to enhance his mechanic expertise by obtaining an analogous certificate in the near future.
“We have four employees. Most of the time I am in camp with the team and that’s when my partner Emmanuel steps up and does everything.
We fix approximately five cars a day, depending on the parts [available]. If it’s cars like Toyotas, it’s easy,” Kapini stated.
The Lions of the North captain arrived in SA in 2007.
He’s fluent in Zulu and Setswana. The 34-year-old goalie is not planning to retire any time soon. He spends his leisure time with his children.
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