Legendary South African ultramarathon athlete, Bruce Fordyce (66), who has won the Comrades Marathon eight years in a row and nine times overall, is supporting a new challenge to provide each parkrun event in South Africa, with a defibrillator to help save lives....
Pictured above: Kyle with his grandmother, Margie. Colin (71) and Margie Jones (69), doting grandparents from Hillcrest, Durban, have dedicated most of their lives to caring for their grandson, Kyle Skidmore (29), who lives with a rare, inherited condition. At the age...
Press Release for immediate distribution. Please contact Zane Groenewald for more information or to arrange an interview - 082 602 0735 - [email protected] Brittany McCormick (25) a keynote speaker from Paarl, Western Cape, was born premature at just 25 weeks....
Coach Takudzwa ‘TK’ Muzadzi (31) from Zimbabwe, a beloved coach at Busy Ballers, was sadly mugged at gunpoint while in Sunningdale, Blouberg, on 29 August 2022. Hearing the news, Catherine Du Plooy, BackaBuddy COO, and Founder of charity e-commerce site, Gift...
Sandi Pitchers Keel (58), an adventure junkie from Mondeor, Johannesburg, affectionately known as ‘DirtBarbie’, has always taken life by the horns and knows a thing or two about endurance, and the road less travelled. For the last 18 years, Sandi has been a member of...
Cleopatra Leoschut (37), a single mother and police constable in the crime prevention unit from Robertson, Western Cape would give the shirt off her back to help someone in need, says her friend for over a decade, Michelle Brown. “Cleo always puts others first,...
Bonita Orson (42) a stay-at-home mother from Stellenbosch, Western Cape, was diagnosed with Myeloma, an incurable but treatable blood cancer, in September 2021. Knowing that Bonita has two small children between the ages of 2 and 9 years old, as well as a mentally...
Reece Trumpelmann (17), a teenager from Bapsfontein, Gauteng, with the courage of a lion, was diagnosed with Gorlin Goltz Syndrome, an extremely rare cancer condition in 2016. After bumping his jaw while playing on a jumping castle, Reece was taken to hospital, and...
Jenny Tshuma (29) from Soweto, Johannesburg, who works as a Bolt driver has become a victim of a brazen drive-by shooting which occurred in Rosettenville, Joburg South on 30 April 2022. Caught in the crossfire, the husband and father of 2 young children was shot in...
Lerato Monyatsi (41) from Krugersdrop, Gauteng, is the founder of SkirtGirlHiker Foundation, a non-profit organisation that aims to restore dignity to Ostomy and Cancer Patients by conquering mountains and hiking with purpose. In 2020 while many lives had been shaken...