The official race may have been cancelled, but thousands of South Africans are still hitting the streets, proving that our national slogan might as well be: “We’ll make a plan.”…
Hope can begin in the unlikeliest places. For one young girl from Zweletemba, foster care was not the end of her story… it was the start of an extraordinary new…
The man whose voice once filled school halls and community centres with messages of hope now speaks through the pain of throat cancer. Western Cape, South Africa (03 October…
For many tourists, South Africa is a place of wildlife, beauty, and adventure. For Manon Rouwette-Janssen, it became the place where her life was pieced back together. St Lucia,…
He had every reason to stop. Six kilometres into the Comrades Marathon, Richard Laskey tore his calf. But instead of calling it quits, he kept going… because this run wasn’t…
In a conversation with Europeans, I was asked whether I had hope for South Africa’s future. Cape Town, South Africa (01 June 2025) — Recently, I found myself in…
In 2022, Brittany McCormick pushed herself to learn to walk after her wheelchair broke (she has Cerebral Palsy). She aimed to tackle 100kms, and ended up walking 200kms to raise…
In breaking good news, Flip the Cancer swimmers raised in excess of R130,000 for the Children’s Hospital Trust. But, this was not just a successful fundraiser. It was a swim…
Letchen du Plessis hasn’t just earned gold at the Adaptive CrossFit Games. She’s overcome incredible adversity that included the loss of functioning in her leg, multiple surgeries, rehabilitation and most…
A Comrades runner put his resilience (and socks) to the test after he ran the majority of the race’s second half without shoes! Talk about pushing through no matter what….
Where mind meets heart
"The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members." - Coretta Scott King
