2014 Freedom Challenge Madness.......

[V12man]

I'm a self confessed coffee & rusk addict, the only way the boere survived the cold, will keep you posted on twitter @MarnitzNienaber if I can keep the cell alive........

 

You can do the pictures in arrears... just as long as it's before we tally up

 

Maybe we can find you a coffee shop as a sponsor for your charity too?

 

Now where is 101SCC..... I neknominate him to match or improve my contribution in some way.... :ph34r: :ph34r:

Edited March 5, 2014 by V12man

[Marnitz Nienaber]

The charity will be decided between myself and the main sponsor, I haven't secured a main sponsor yet, but there are a lot of interest. It will most probably be the Freedom Scholarship Fund or ABLE Center, it will all depend on the sponsor.

 

I would gladly do it for the Freedom Scholarship Fund, didn't have the opportunity before.

 

The reason : Education is the foundation of any country, if I can assist in opening the world for a child through education why not, it will only make this world a better place. I was actually thinking about it this morning, my children have got it easy, we deliver them at school, assist with their home work and pick them up from school. If they struggle with any work we pay an educator to solve the problem. We are actually making life very easy for them. Why can't we do it for the willing children that wants to educate themselves, that's walking miles to the school to get an education, that's studying at candle light just to make a difference and to open the world for themselves ?

 

ABLE Center for obvious reasons - http://afreedomexper...difference.html

 

In the past I've done charity work for :

 

Beitel - Children with leukemia

Miles for Smiles - Putting a SMILE on a child's face

ABLE Center - Children with Autism

 

Children will always be near my heart, they don't always have the means to change the world they're in, but we can all change that and put a million dollar smile on their face.

 

Makes you think.........In life you sometimes have to do the MAD thing to put a smile on a face, and I bed you're smiling now and thinking : " What can you do ?"

 

:D

Edited March 5, 2014 by Marnitz

[eddy]

 

 

I would gladly do it for the Freedom Scholarship Fund, didn't have the opportunity before.

 

 

 

For the FSF, I'll offer a leopard chasing a buffalo per night..........

[Marnitz Nienaber]

For the FSF, I'll offer a leopard chasing a buffalo per night..........

 

I would gladly chase the Leopard chasing the Buffalo, hold your thumbs we should know soon which charity it would be..........

 

:D

[Marnitz Nienaber]

I am eagerly awaiting your pledges, soon I will have to start sleeping in my underwear on the stoep with the sprinkler on, just to get into the chasing the leopard chasing buffalo training program.

 

Come on guys & girls anything from R1.00 / night to what ever will make some child in need a happy smiling child.

 

:clap:

[Marnitz Nienaber]

I might have gone completely mad, but here is my plan.

 

First of all this plan is not about me, it is about what you can do for charity.

 

This plan will only depend on your involvement and how much you want to make a difference in someone's life and how big a smile you want to put on their face.

 

The plan is for you to make a pledge from R 1 to whatever per night that I sleep rough on the Freedom Challenge. Sleeping rough will mean that I don't sleep in a support station, intermediate support station or any other accommodation where we normally have to pay a fee including farmers letting me stay for free.

 

Sleeping rough will thus mean, sleeping under the stars, or sleeping in an open abandoned house / hut or kraal where no fee is charged.

 

You the life changer may make a pledge per night, that will be collected afterwards and I will donate all the pledges to charity.

 

Now is this a mad plan and are you willing to make a change in a life.

 

PS. The Freedom Challenge race across South Africa is held in June where the mercury drop during the night to anything from minus 1 to minus 14

 

Please help me in making this plan work, I will keep you updated with the details of my main sponsor and the charity that I will be supporting.

 

:w00t:

 

 

 

Help me spread the word :clap:

Edited March 7, 2014 by Marnitz

[TrailWarrior]

Fundraising is hard work Marnitz....I am battling with my own as well...giving deaf kids a better chance while I do all the hard work doing FC!.... Just have to keep pushing it, persevere....keep at it!

 

COME ON GUYS & GIRLS!! help the man out here!

Marnitz is a seasoned Freedom Challenger....I am sure he will not disappoint!

Edited March 7, 2014 by TrailWarrior

[Marnitz Nienaber]

Thanks for the assistance, all the best with your fundraising.

 

If you want to make an anonymous pledge, please feel free to mail me.

 

nienaber.marnitz@gmail.com

[tubed]

Help me spread the word :clap:

 

Such a good photo this, besides the person taking the pic - this sums up Marnitz.......largely alone and heading out into the elements day or night - most people can even begin to imagine cycling in snow in South Africa, this is Marnitz in his element.......cant wait to see how this unfolds in 2014 now that we have crazy challenge out there.

 

Good luck Marnitz

[eddy]

Unless Marnitz cheats and borrows a duvet, hot water bottle and farmer's daughter from the support station and goes behind the chicken coop to sleep, this challenge will not only make his nights harder, but also his days as he will need to increase the load to ensure he survives the freezing nights in the open.

 

He deserves a lot of our respect and maybe a bit of our support in his fund raising...

[Marnitz Nienaber]

If the Boers could survive, there might be a small chance for me.......

 

Some insight on surviving under the stars......

 

Adrift on the open veld

...we were adrift on the open veld.

The night that followed was the most terrible of all. Our guide lost his way; we went floundering ankle-deep in mud and water, our poor weakened horses stumbling and slipping at every turn; the rain beat down on us, and the cold was awful. Towards midnight it began to sleet. The grain-bag which I wore froze solid on my body, like a coat of mail, and I believe that if we had not kept moving every one of us would have died. We had known two years of war, but we came nearer to despair that night than I care to remember. Hour after hour we groped our way, with men groaning who had never before uttered a word of complaint, as the cold searched their ill-protected bodies. We lost fourteen men that night, and I do not know whether they survived, but we never again had word of them.

 

We also lost a large number of horses, and I remember stumbling at intervals over their carcasses. We went on till daybreak, dragging ourselves along, and then, providentially, came on a deserted homestead and staggered into shelter, standing huddled together in rooms, stables, and barns until dawn, still shivering, but gradually recovering from the dreadful ordeal. When it grew light, some fifty or sixty horses lay dead outside. My little roan mare was still alive, but both my uncle's horses died here, and he, with thirty or forty more, was now a foot-soldier. (As practically every man had crossed the Orange River with two horses, the number of dismounted men did not necessarily correspond a to the number of horses that were lost.) This night's 'Big Rain', as we named it, left such a mark on all of us that later we used to call ourselves 'The "Big Rain" Men' (Die Groot Reent Kerels) to distinguish us from those who had not experienced it, and for my part I passed through no greater test during the war.

The day was cold and wild, but the rain stopped. We - broke up the floors and windows, tables and chairs, and everything else that would burn, and made great fires to dry our clothes and blankets, and to warm our chilled limbs. Towards noon, General Smuts ordered us on to another large farm, eight or nine miles away, which had, a native told him, plenty of fodder for the horses.

No attempt was made to send back for the missing men, because we were too exhausted, and they had to be abandoned.

We plodded over the waterlogged country, a quarter of our number on foot, and the rest soon likely to be, for there was not a fit horse in the commando.

We found this farm also deserted, but there was protection for all, and a good store of oat-sheaves, as well as sheep for slaughter, so that, although the rain came down again, we at last spent a comfortable night.

Denys Reitz - Commando: A Boer Journal of the Anglo-Boer War Jonathon Ball p174 writing of the few days below the Aasvoelsberg

 

You just have to keep moving........and your pledges will keep me moving !!!

Edited March 7, 2014 by Marnitz

[G.S.W]

Hi Marnitz

 

I will sponsor 3 Rhinos a night to keep you company, just try avoid the real ones in Baviaans this year!

 

Best of luck

Gaeren

 

Plus 2 Buff's if you finish 13 days or less.

Edited March 7, 2014 by G.S.W

[Marnitz Nienaber]

Thanks Gearen, hopefully I would be able to take the Buffalo's of your hand.

 

Thanks for spreading the word

 

:)

[Marnitz Nienaber]

Driven by the cold........

 

We could see smoke curling from the English camp four miles behind, where whole streets of comfortable tents had sprung up, at which we gazed wistfully, for there were warmth and rest, whilst we stood shivering in the biting wind, wondering how it was all to end.

 

I will have to make it quick.......

[Marnitz Nienaber]

In spitte of our mission, the voyage was one of great pleasure to me. After years of rough fare and hard living, we had luxurious cabins, with soft beds to lie on; a steward with coffee in the morning, a bath ready prepared and food such as I had almost forgotten the existence of All this seemed like a dream, and I enjoyed every moment of it.

 

Reitz Chapter 26

 

I promise you it won't be for a lost cause, it will be a race for the luxurious rooms at Diemersfontein.

[eddy]

At least Reitz only had to contend with the Khakis and not irate landowners whilst moving out of the Gamka Kloof.....