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NB my time for the Argus is a new personal best. My previous personal best was 6 hr 45 min. I am blogging to you from the back of a Joburg Uber on my way to my eye doctor for a checkup and an oil pressure test.

Day 3 7th March 2023 – Ladismith to Barrydale Distance – 78 kmClimb – 708 mTime – 5 hr 03 minAv Heart Rate – 122 bpmMax Heart Rate – 182 bpm I am blogging to you from Barrydale, possibly the coolest town in South Africa. The town is wall-to-wall quirky, full of little boutique hotels,…

One of the dedicated and quite amazing team of carers based in Zimbabwe has recently retired and sent us this report – it encapsulates the work that ZANE undertakes and is testament to the love and compassion which the ZANE donors pass on through the ZANE teams to the ordinary men and women struggling to…

This blog is coming to you from Oudtshoorn, home to every ostrich in creation, and in the Karoo, which is a desert apparently. Desert my arse. Having ridden the Karoo, we now know that ostriches have long necks so as to avoid drowning when it floods following hail storms and torrential downpours, but more of that later.

Reports from the ZANE teams on the ground in Zimbabwe show yet again the difficulties faced by both the carers as well, of course, the elderly folk trying desperately to survive in the chaotic social and economic times: The recent heavy rains in Harare have made visiting our beneficiaries an interesting, and sometimes terrifying, experience…

When Jan van Riebeek sailed the seas to discover South Africa, NB apologies to Hottentots, Khoisan, Zulus, Xhosas, Vendas, Tsonga and others too numerous to mention, he never rushed off to explore the hinterland because there were the big bloody hills a.k.a. mountains between him and the hinterland. Jan van Riebeek was Dutch and Dutchmen…

One of our amazing care workers has recently retired and is now a pensioner in Zimbabwe herself. She wrote this lovely thank you letter where she thanks both the donors and the wonderful ZANE teams for the incredible work that she was part of and knew firsthand over nineteen years. If you are already a…

ZANE Australia is very proud to be associated with the Harare to Nambia Old Legs Bike Ride and particularly the OLT Down Under and OLT Anzacs both of which are based in Australia and see our very own participants, Pete Brodie WA, Mark Johnson and Alan Crundall QLD enter the awe inspiring challenge of riding…

Cathy Buckle has very kindly allowed us to share her latest letter from Zimbabwe. While she makes light of the situation with humour, it underlines to us yet again the difficulties of daily life and survival amidst the chaos and ever-worsening situation in the country. The rich get richer while more and more people slide…

Eileen On my recent visit to Eileen she mentioned that her eyes were troubling her and she was struggling to read. Eileen spends a lot of time on her own and really enjoys reading. Some years ago, she was told she had cataracts, but could not afford to have them removed. She will be visiting…