Marco Flammer

Marco Flammer was born in Benoni, a city in the greater Johannesburg-area, South Africa on December 12th, 1979. His mother and father, Renate and Eduard Flammer are both German and immigrated in the late 60's to South Africa from Frankfurt and Tubingen which was then known as the former West Germany. His home language was German while his second and third languages were English, Afrikaans and Xhosa. Originally Marco's education and vocation was as a civil engineering as a result of his father wishes to have one son to succeed him in the family construction business. He started his tertiary education in 1998 in Pretoria, South Africa at the Tshwane University of Technology and later received a bursary through a university in Groningen in Nederland. He completed his Dutch bachelor's degree in 2003 in International Civil Engineering Project Management and returned to South Africa to work as a civil engineer in Pretoria, Johannesburg, Secunda and the Eastern Cape while completing a second