Left: Tlhananello Mmushi, Azhar Vadi, Corneluis Robertze and Hassan Choonara are all cyclists of the Ride4SAEducation initiative who took on the 1 160 km route to raise money for deserving learners.
POLOKWANE – Salaam Media and Salaam Foundation participants joined riders from the Africa Muslims Agency, Nyota Collections, Al Ihya Foundation (Ennerdale) and Islamic Relief South Africa.
The fun-day was organised for all cycling enthusiasts to support the cyclists who will embark on a 1 160 km challenge across Limpopo, North West and Gauteng to raise money for South African learners who struggle with finances for their education.
This year’s challenge will culminate on 25 February with a Mountain Bike Race and Family Farm Market on a farm just outside Lenasia.
Mohammed Shiekh, Moaz Rendera and Abdur-Rahman Fernandez excitedly wait for the fun day activities.
Salaam Foundation’s Azhar Vadi said: “By empowering and educating our children in their early and vulnerable years of life, we can leave a lasting and sustainable contribution to the development of South Africa”.
Last year Vadi rode from Musina to Cape Town for the same cause.
Khadijah Bham and Hamzah Omar are young cycling fanatics.
The inaugural Riding4SAEducation campaign resulted in approximately 1 000 pairs of school shoes, 2 500 stationery packs, school uniforms, hundreds of reusable sanitary pads, school kitchen appliances and even a computer lab reaching the most deserving learners across South Africa.
Raeesa Sempe is a Caxton Award-winning Digital Editor with nine years’ experience in the industry. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Media Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand and started her journey as a community journalist for the Polokwane Review in 2015. She then became the online journalist for the Review in 2016 where she excelled in solidifying the Review’s digital footprint through Facebook lives, content creation and marketing campaigns. Raeesa then moved on to become the News Editor of the Bonus Review in 2019 and scooped up the Editorial Employee of the Year award in the same year. She is the current Digital Editor of the Polokwane Review-Observer, a position she takes pride in. Raeesa is married with one child and enjoys spending time with friends, listening to music and baking – when she has the time. “I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon." – Tom Stoppard
