Evening Eastern Cape runners and supporters.
Pls look at #LongRoadToComrades. Also Koot Steenkamp, Roger Cameron and Mike Sewell Facebook pages. My friends and former club-mates at Sunninghill Striders Running Club.
Running from Cape Town to PMB for start of Comrades. 90km a day and then Comrades!
Enduring hectic time. New comprehension of digging deep.
Thursday in Cradock (Die Tuishuise and Victoria Manor) and Friday Blanco Holiday Farm and Guest Resort. Graciously hosted by those fine folk at no charge 
????????. That’s Eastern Cape hospitality and generosity for you!
I can only get out Saturday morning and will be with them for a couple of days as they head eastwards.
If anyone can get out there – pls spread the word – would be greatly appreciated. 5, 10, 20km or more. Or just cheer them along. Every km with company means the world to them.
I’ve done a few Comrades but unable to grasp what they going through. They need our support.
Yours in running
Graeme
GRAEME HOLMES
Before moving back to Grahamstown in Oct 2017, Graeme was a bank executive based in the big smoke and craziness of Joburg. He has 20 years’ experience in the Payments Industry. He is a Chartered Accountant, has a Masters in Management by Research (MMR) from Wits Business School, and attended an Advanced Management Programme (AMP) offered by INSEAD (The Business School for the World!) in France.
Graeme is the founder of The Grahamstown Project. It’s simple. He says, “Grahamstown is a microcosm of South Africa. If we can’t get this place to function properly then the whole country is stuffed. Many of the troubles we experience as a country today have their roots here in Grahamstown. it is here where black and white people first engaged in conflict on the African continent. It is here where 9 wars of dispossession over 100 years took place and virtually destroyed the amaXhosa nation. But we are where we are. I don’t have a British passport and the boat-trip back to where my ancestors came from is exorbitantly expensive. Furthermore, this is my home. I am a son of Africa. We must work together to redress the injustices of the past and move as one into a brighter future.”
Graeme is an avid historian, writer, vlogger and public speaker. Like and follow the Facebook page. Join him on a tour. Contact him. He would love that.