42-year-old sailing instructor and father of seven Mncedisi ‘Tata’ Hlalatu became an NSRI volunteer nearly a year ago. And in early 2020, he joined the drowning-prevention team as a water-safety educator for the Richards Bay area. I started volunteering at ...
NSRI salutes our volunteers on the frontline of the fight against Covid-19. Meet Dr Tomé Mendes, a registrar in General Surgery at Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH) in Cape Town, a Class 1 coxswain, and duty coxswain for Charlie crew at ...
Sunday 9 August is celebrated as Women’s Day in South Africa but it is also duty day at the National Sea Rescue Institute’s (NSRI) base in Strandfontein in Cape Town and that is where you will find most of the ...
TAKE IT FROM THE SKIPPER, YOU CAN BE ANYTHING YOU WANTGO. FOR. IT.It is Carmen Long’s simple motto when it comes to achieving what had not been done before.That is certainly what this full-of-life 52-year-old did when she was presented ...
Sara Jane Smith of St Francis Bay in the Eastern Cape is the National Sea Rescue Institute’s (NSRI) sole female station commander, in charge of Station 21.“The only time I know I am the only female in this role is ...
Founded in 1967, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) volunteers live Madiba’s principles every minute of every day in service of South African communities, saving lives on South African waters. In Mandela Month, the organisation is celebrating the contributions of ...
To mark Mandela Month, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) is celebrating the contributions of their volunteers, of which seven are 67 years old, including Pam St Clair-Laing, Shore Controller at Durban’s Station 5, one of the organisation’s unsung heroes ...
To mark Mandela Month, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) is celebrating the contributions of their volunteers, of which seven are 67 years old, including Patrick Van Eyssen, deputy station commander and skipper Coxswain for the 12 metre class ...
Cape Town, July 14, 2020. The National Sea Rescue Institute’s (NSRI) volunteers live Madiba’s principles every minute of every day in service of South African communities, saving lives on South African waters.“No one understands the value of a minute like ...
Youth, be the best version of yourself.One of the NSRI’s youngest volunteers, Adrian Fransman is still in Grade 12 and helps to save lives on KwaZulu-Natal’s South Coast.“I love that quick burst of adrenaline that runs through your veins when ...
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