Dear Zimbabwe Pensioner Support Fund Supporters and Friends, Please find in good order our February 2024 Trip report and what we are up to currently. The February round trip on the truck was done by Johan & Frans Schultz on the truck and Caroline and Angela on the Bakkie for Bulawayo and surrounds. Thank you…
Dear Zimbabwe Pensioner Support Fund Supporters and Friends, Please find in good order what we are up to at the moment. As usual the first trip of the year has turned into a bit of a nightmare, not to go into too much detail but we are getting there and hoping to start the trip…
It is with some trepidation that I sit down to write this report. My literary skills are somewhat challenging at times but here goes. My brother Daniel fetched me in Gauteng on Saturday morning of the 25 November 2023. And we left for Malelane where we stayed overnight. Bright and early on Sunday morning we…
To say it was a sunny time of the year would be lying, it was sweltering hot but we had so much work to do. Despite the heat it was honestly so exciting and enormously rewarding to get all the Christmas boxes and gifts packed for our deserving pensioners. We had our whole team at…
Let me start by saying that I have decided to make this report a bit different from any of the previous reports, although it will still contain some of those special moments where I actually had the PRIVILEDGE of meeting some of the “oldies” who in some small way actually contributed to making Zimbabwe the…
Dear Friends and Supporters, We are currently going full tilt with the final preparations for our September trip which will be commencing within the next few days. It currently looks like Johan will be doing most of the trip with the UD 90 and then our team in Bulawayo will do those deliveries. Once again…
James Botha DAY 1 (Friday, 28 July 2023) My name is James Botha, the eldest son of Pastor Attie Botha, one of the much-loved pioneer members of the Zimbabwe Pensioners Support Fund (ZPSF) and brother to founder, Hannes Botha and this Friday I was rather ‘bang’. Considering the pedigree of these men, it was with…
It was in April of this year on the anniversary of my Fathers passing that I came to the realization that in order for me to feel closer to my Dad I needed to get involved in what he loved. After my trip down to Malelane it was decided that I could join the Fund…
On 30 May 2023 I leave Malelane in the truck for Zimbabwe to deliver the “Goodie Parcels” for the third trip of the year. I depart at 09:00 and have an uneventful trip to Musina where I spend the night at Aunty Hester Joubert’s. I am spoilt with beef stew and a warm bed. As…
Trip Report February 2023 – Johan Schultz On Wednesday 1 February 2023 I met with Daniel (Martinus) Koekemoer at the Malelane Warehouse for the first trip to Zimbabwe for 2023. Daniel was in the Bakkie (LDV), and I was taking the truck on the round trip. First thing we had to check was whether the…