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.
I am moeg. Let nobody dare say the Eyabantwana Heritage Ride is an excuse to enjoy tourism. I have been with these ballies for eight days, four of them as a support crew in the front passenger seat one of the buses.
Community events with a social and environmental cause take on new meaning in a country awash with corruption, gangsterism, violence, official stasis and ineptitude.