To ride across Africa and finish with a 400km one-shot race seemed tough, but Springbok legend Joel Stransky and his cycling buddies did it anyway. Starting from Durban, they rode a total of 2500km so that underprivileged children could gain access to vision care.
Swakopmund, Namibia (10 December 2025) – Springbok legend Joel Stransky, along with a few cycling buddies, left Durban a few days ago with a mission: to ride the 401km Desert Dash so that children in need of vital eye care can see.
Beginning in Durban, their ride unfolded into a personal 2,500 km Sea2See ride across KwaZulu-Natal, the Free State, and the Northern Cape to reach Swakopmund for the LumoHawk Foundation.
“To ride across Africa and finish with a 400km one-shot race seemed tough and hard, and a compelling story to raise money for our charity,” Stransky shared in a video.
“We weren’t as smooth as we usually were, and there was a little crossing of wheels along the peloton, and I was the poor soul who went down and crashed. The doctors recommended I not ride, but we’d come so far,” he added during the final stretch of the ride.
Despite the aching pains and bloody injuries, this week the team successfully completed the 2,500 km Sea2See Ride from Durban to Swakopmund.
The incredible endurance challenge was to raise awareness and funds for the LumoHawk Foundation, which provides mobile eye clinics to under-resourced schools, screening children and providing prescription glasses where needed, helping them learn, play, and thrive.
Stransky was challenged several years ago to take on the challenge of doing the unbelievably tough Absa Cape Epic for charity. It was a challenge he could not turn down, and he used the opportunity to raise sponsorship for several worthy causes.
The seed was planted, and in 2013, he formalised his personal charity, the LumoHawk Foundation. It strives to support the educational and sporting needs of previously disadvantaged children and their communities in South Africa – a cause that continues to inspire Stransky to push himself to the limit.
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Sources: Maritzburg College | JUMPCUT MEDIA CO.
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