Tears flowed as nine triumphant Grandads were welcomed home on Sunday. The stringy Grandads Army troopers had pounded out 1,500km over 14 days to raise thousands of rand from an admiring public.
The most unlikely local hero will pedal into Old Selbornian Club on Sunday. Please shift your mind about 80-year-olds.This oke, paediatric surgeon Professor Colin Lazarus, will have braved the trucking rush, broken roads and climate chaos that tumbled, scraped and battered his body. He would have welded together a rambunctious team of 20 unparalleled individuals who over 16 days covered a distance of 3,000km, 1,500 of them on bicycles.
As financial woes continue to hamper the provincial health department, frustrated patients say they are being forced to wait longer for orthopaedic surgery due to a lack of medical implants and other equipment at Cecilia Makiwane Hospital in Mdantsane.
The raindrops were literally drying on my helmet visor when I spotted Buffalo City traffic cops setting up their ATM at the entrance to the Gonubie cement road. I mean, they were emptying pockets metres from the circle leading off the old R102 Farmarama circle. Google tells me they were one minute away from where Anthropogene, the climate monster, came and bit off chunks of bitumen and road metal barriers.