Bongane Lukhele at the African Championship, holding a 25kg plate
Deadly Dozen World Championships · London 2026

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Bongza
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He got himself here. Skinny kid. No mentor. No blueprint. Second place at the African Championship. Now it's our turn.

5–6 September 2026 · Crystal Palace, London · Representing South Africa

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The achievement

Out of every functional fitness athlete who competed at the African Championship, only one person finished above Bongane Lukhele. He is going to London.

2nd
Place
Africa
51:02
Finish
Time
Sep '26
World Champs
London
His Story

No coach.
No mentor.
No shortcut.

He was a skinny kid who didn't like what he saw in the mirror. No one stepped in to help him change it. So he changed it himself. In high school, he fell in love with training, studied it obsessively, and turned it into his identity. He became @BongzaTheTrainer, coaching clients across Johannesburg, building the kind of strength, inside and out, that he once had to build for himself.

"I figured it out alone."

This year, Bongza stepped onto a field of the continent's best functional fitness athletes and finished second. A time of 51:02. The kind of result that earns you the right to wear a number at the World Championships.

London is more than a competition. It is a platform: for his own growth, for his business, for the clients who look up to him. And for the country on his chest.

Bongza performing a farmers carry at competition, stadium grandstand behind him
The Challenge

What is the
Deadly Dozen?

Twelve labour stations. 400m runs between each. Heavy carries, brutal rep counts, and movements that break most people by station four. Bongza ran the full gauntlet on African soil and finished second. Now he does it on the world stage in London.

01240m Farmers Carry
0260 Deadlifts
0360 Lunges
0460 Snatches
0560m Burpee Broad Jumps
0660 Goblet Squats
07240m Front Carry
0860 Push Presses
09120m Bear Crawl
1060 Clean & Press
11180m Overhead Carry
1220 Devil Presses
Bongza running with a weight plate overhead, African Championship
Overhead carry in progress · African Championship
In his own words

"No matter where you come from and the challenges you've faced in life, you can still get up and do great things for yourself."

Bongane Lukhele · @BongzaTheTrainer · Johannesburg, South Africa

Transparency

Here's what
it takes.

He has done everything in his power to earn this opportunity. The only thing standing between Bongza and London is the cost of getting there. Every rand goes directly toward making this trip a reality.

Return flights (JHB to London)R22,000
Accommodation (4 nights, London)R12,000
Competition registration feeR5,000
Competition kit & gearR7,000
Transport & daily expensesR4,000
Total R50,000