Mbombela’s CANSA Relay remembers, honours and celebrates

With candles in hand, CANSA supporters and those battling cancer came together at Eagles View Play Park in solidarity with any and everyone touched by the disease.

June 18, 2022

Linzetta Calitz 1 minute read

Hanlie Meiring, Hailey Jordaan, Meliska Steyl, Driekie Oosthuizen and Caroline and Cailyn Steyn.

Albeit a little smaller than previous years, this past weekend’s CANSA Relay for Life was certainly a memorable one. Eagles View Play Park is now the relay’s new home as its owner, Jaco Potgieter, is personally invested in the cause – he lost his daughter to cancer.

After various groups and individuals had settled themselves around the track, the opening ceremony took place at 17:00. Organisers decided that people who suffer from or due to cancer need a place where they can just go and be silent, and remember those they have lost or what they themselves have lost.

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This was provided in the form of remembrance benches that will be placed around Eagles View. There are already some names on the benches, and you may approach Potgieter to have one of you loved ones’ immortalised there. Candles were lit, walks were walked, and loved ones were remembered with tears in the eye, accompanied by smiles, due to the legacies left behind by those lost.