Wednesday 19th June We left Malelane on Wednesday at 08h30 with Neels driving the new truck and Johan in the Toyota bakkie. It was an uneventful trip as far as Messina. We arrived there at 18h00 where we spent the night at the Baobab Cottages. The new truck is governed to 80km/h, so it is…
Friday 12 April 2024 I was fortunate on this trip to have a fuller team of people join me, as I’m usually one of a pair or alone, going to Zimbabwe on adventures. I was accompanied by Daniel (Tinus) Koekemoer’s’ brother, Neels. Neels has also after this trip availed himself to going on the trips…
A journey to Zim and back. It all started on a Saturday. Saturday the 17th of Feb. Johan and Frans Schultz, Father and Son team, pulled away at 8AM Saturday morning from Malelane to start off our journey to Zimbabwe. I was in the Bakkie and Dad (Johan) was on the truck. We stopped in…
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…
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…
Good Day All, When Johan and Linda contacted us, asking if we were interested in helping to distribute the food boxes in Bulawayo for the March trip, it was a no brainer that we would do it – it was something we had talked about doing for so long. So on 22nd March we left…