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The latest reports from the ZANE carers in Zimbabwe highlight again how difficult the current situation is with intense heat and drought together with the escalating currency crisis as the Zimbabwe dollar yet again plunges in value against the US dollar which makes food and medicine more and more difficult to procure. There have been…

Here are some of the difficulties being faced daily by the ZANE carers as they reach out to the many elderly folk struggling to make ends meet as Zimbabwe continues it decline into chaos.

Thank you. For twenty years we have been highlighting Zimbabwe’s decline and despair and yet the situation remains as desperate as it ever has. The name Zimbabwe: A National Emergency is as relevant today as it was twenty years ago. The political and economic turmoil persists, and the innocent people of Zimbabwe continue to suffer….

Dennis dreaded telling his wife Anna that he thought the problem was back. She had been through hell during his last medical crisis six months ago, rushing around borrowing money, begging for help, sitting in the kitchen every night with a calculator trying to work out which bills to pay first and how much she…

The latest reports from the ZANE carers in Zimbabwe highlight again how difficult the current situation is with intense heat and drought together with the escalating currency crisis as the Zimbabwe dollar yet again plunges in value against the US dollar which makes food and medicine more and more difficult to procure. The heat over…

The drive north was real good and I saw Mt Cook, and also a pod of Māui dolphin, which are smaller than the dolphins we see in South Africa, and more acrobatic, leaping right out of the water.

I would like to formally distance myself from my comments in my last blog which inferred that our last days of the New Zealand Tour would be easy riding. What a load of old bollocks. The last 2 days have been as tough as any before them. Going forward I will take whatever I write with a huge pinch of salt.

Because the sun gets out of bed late this far south, we started riding out of Franz Josef in the dark. And just 5 minutes into the ride, I was officially miserable. New Zealand’s long white cloud burst right on top of our heads. It was hard, driving rain and we were soaked through in minutes.

This blog is coming to you from the small seaside town of Greymouth. Somehow after climbing 6295 m in the last 4 days, we’ve arrived back at bloody sea level. Seagulls are really starting to annoy.

There was some debate as to whether we should ride New Zealand from top to bottom, or vice versa. But absolutely top to bottom is the way to do it. No disrespect to the North Island but to do it the other way would be anticlimactic. We’ve been riding the South Island for 2 and a half days and already it has delivered up epic in bucket loads.