Nelson Mandela Bay endurance athlete Sharon Jessop finished her 89-day 1,881km extreme run to the Mozambican border this week with two overriding epiphanies community ownership of game reserves is the way to go, and tourism is the new gold.
Rhino activism is alive and well in Nelson Mandela Bay, with Wayne Bolton three-quarters of the way through his 2,500km cycling expedition from Namibia and Sharon Jessop getting ready to receive the “baton of hope” for her 3,050km super-run through 30 game reserves and three provinces.
She survived eight heart attacks, a triple bypass surgery and a stroke, and now wants to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in honour of heart disease and cancer survivors like herself.