Recent Challenges!

Botswana Desert Walk
On 29th July 2023 Thakane completed a gruelling 15km charity walk in Jwaneng Botswana to support the Waterford Kamhlaba school scholarships programme in eSwatini. You helped her beat the intense heat and dust! [ACTIVE]

87K for WK
Ashley will be running his 10th Comrades marathon from Pietermaritzburg to Durban on 11th June 2023 to support the WK school scholarships programme. The race is 87km long and he needs to finish in under 12 hours! [COMPLETED]

Swim for Arthi
Catherine Hunter (WK 71-77) will be swimming her 36th and 37th Midmar Miles on Feb 11th and 12th in memory of her friend and former WK student Arthi Ramkissoon. She’ll be raising funds for Waterford Kamhlaba’s Scholarship Fund. [COMPLETED]

2022 Internet Connectivity
The project aims to improve, rationalize and stabilize internet connectivity services to the school and within the campus. The operation would upgrade the dedicated fibre connection allowing 200 Mps connectivity [COMPLETED]

Soulful Seventies (Connectivity)
This Challenge calls on all those who completed their WK studies in the seventies or before that. Please help us to help the current generation. All funds raised here will go towards the 2022 Internet Connectivity Challenge [COMPLETED]

Bye Bye Gumboot Dance
Gcinisizwe Mdluli (SD, WK 98-04) will be running 58km in honour of WK’s 58 years during the week of October 25-31 in order to raise funds for Waterford Kamhlaba’s Scholarships and Community Service Projects. [COMPLETED]

31 Day Dry July!
Mandi Mzimba (RSA, WK 72-76) is embarking on a 31 day health journey and would love you to join her. She will be doing a ‘Dry July’ in order to raise funds for Waterford Kamhlaba’s Scholarship Fund. [COMPLETED]

Running Man
Sandile Hlophe (RSA, WK 84-89) is planning to rediscover his lost running speed through an intensive running training programme to hit a speed target and raise funds for Waterford Kamhlaba’s Scholarships Fund [COMPLETED]

Come Dine With Me
Sibongile Gumbi (Pefile) (RSA, WK 84-86) encourages us all to set up Come Dine With Me evenings, meet old friends and donate to raise funds for Waterford Kamhlaba’s staff development programs [COMPLETED]

Mountain Challenge
Thakane Molapo (WK 74-77) will be hiking for health over the next six months in mountainous Lesotho where she will be climbing a mountain a month. She will be raising funds for Waterford Kamhlaba’s Scholarship Fund. [COMPLETED]

Swim Across Lake Malawi
Chris Stapley (UK, WK 82-86) wants to swim across Lake Malawi, a distance of approximately 25 kilometers, on 20 -26th April 2019 in order to raise funds for Waterford Kamhlaba’s Community Service Projects. [COMPLETED]