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Speaker 1: If you're listening to the show on Tuesday, you would

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Speaker 1: have heard my chat with David Nell from Wilderness Search

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Speaker 1: and Rescue talking about the heroic effort to rescue a

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Speaker 1: dog which had fallen down the side of Hillcrest Quarry

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Speaker 1: and got stuck on a ledge and look spoiler alerted.

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Speaker 2: All ended happily, thank heavens.

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Speaker 1: But when I asked David about the costs of mountain

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Speaker 1: rescue operations, he reminded us that they are generally conducted

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Speaker 1: by volunteers who give of their time and expertise and

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Speaker 1: put their personal safety at risk.

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Speaker 2: Willingly and for free.

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Speaker 1: And he also reminded us that that makes public fundraising

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Speaker 1: really crucial in order to sustain their ability to do

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Speaker 1: that with the proper equipment, etc. And I promised him

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Speaker 1: I'm happy to be able to make good on that

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Speaker 1: promise this afternoon, because registration is now open for the

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Speaker 1: annual Cableway Charity Challenge, and Wilderness Search and Rescue are

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Speaker 1: one of numerous charitable beneficiaries who are survive in part

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Speaker 1: because of events like this, So to tell us more

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Speaker 1: about the event, how you can participate or how you

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Speaker 1: can support from the comfort of your couch if you prefer.

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Speaker 1: It's a real pleasure to have on the line again,

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Speaker 1: Colin Parraswerken, who is the executive manager for Marketing and

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Speaker 1: Sales at the Table Mountain Aerial Cableway Company. Collet, lovely

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Speaker 1: to have you on with us this afternoon. Welcome to

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Speaker 3: Hi Papa, and hi to the listeners. Thank you so

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Speaker 3: much for this opportunity.

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Speaker 2: It's a huge pleasure.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the concept is a simple one, although the

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Speaker 1: execution there rob is not necessarily simple. The challenge invites

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Speaker 1: people to summit plutterclip gorge as many times as possible

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Speaker 1: between sunrise and sunset on a particular day. I've only

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Speaker 1: summitted plutterclip gorge once in my life, and once for

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Speaker 1: the day. Was exhausting enough, Collette, I can't imagine doing

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Speaker 1: it over and over again.

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Speaker 2: Won't you just.

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Speaker 1: Start by reminding us about sort of how who had

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Speaker 1: this crazy idea in the first place and where this

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Speaker 3: Well, this crazy idea actually started out in two thousand

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Speaker 3: and nine by a who. Yeah, they posted off with

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Speaker 3: the idea to actually work for them and they started

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Speaker 3: after charity challenge with the idea of starting the rapia

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Speaker 3: so they raced to Plataclip It's a one and a

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Speaker 3: continue to loop like that. The people that started as

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Speaker 3: her husband and wife team Anton and Bridget Duval, they

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Speaker 3: started it up in two thousand and nine. Over the years,

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Speaker 3: you know, this charity has done amazing work and has

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Speaker 3: raised more than seventeen million brand or of an eye

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Speaker 3: of charities. Last year the Caveboy had always been involved

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Speaker 3: they handed the dace in its simpiety over to us

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Speaker 3: ways side to be part and parcel of such a

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Speaker 3: worthy initiative. And I heard that if you have tracted

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Speaker 3: to David from Borderness Search and Rescue and yeah. The

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Speaker 3: other charities that are also part or beneficiaries that's what

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Speaker 3: we call them, include Buntu Football Academy. They do beautiful

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Speaker 3: Honorary Rangers and they also do amazing work, not just

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, you said over seventeen million raised, and you've

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Speaker 1: been at this for about seventeen years, which tells me

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Speaker 1: at least a million round a year, Collette. That's an

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so for teams, you know, they actually each individual

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Speaker 3: The school teams are funnily enough, they are so super

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Speaker 3: you know, it's also great. So school teams they need

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Speaker 3: a minimum of seventeen and a half thousand for the team,

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Speaker 3: but they are then welcome to actually raise more funds

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Speaker 3: it gets equally divided between the four charities. So this

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Speaker 3: year our target is one point two million Rand, and

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Speaker 3: the idea is that each of the charities will then

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Speaker 1: Four hundred thousand, four charities one point two million runds

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Speaker 1: a three hundred plus thousand target you're looking for, sorry, collet,

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Speaker 1: I'm also checking my mats in the background, wondering.

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Speaker 3: Three hundred thousand.

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Speaker 1: Okay, what of our listeners is asking, what's the most

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Speaker 1: single challenge, do you know if the top of your head.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, so there's a record of nine laps that's

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Speaker 1: All right, So there's a target to set yourself if

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Speaker 1: you feel like taking it really, really seriously this year obviously,

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Speaker 1: if you wanted to take it seriously from a fundraising perspective,

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Speaker 1: But nine laps is the target to beat. What about

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Speaker 2: Is that welcome as well?

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Speaker 1: If somebody says, look, I'm not going to do more

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Speaker 3: Absolutely? Yes. This race is not for elite athletes only. Really,

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Speaker 3: we welcome anybody who is willing to raise funds for

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Speaker 1: Okay, So that's a little bit of inspiration perhaps to

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Speaker 1: the date you have in sight is Saturday, the ninth

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Speaker 1: of May. Collect I'm assuming even that a trip down

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Speaker 1: Would you move it to the subsequent weekend?

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Speaker 2: How does it work?

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Speaker 1: Because I'm sure over seventeen years you've probably had experience

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Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, and actual first last year we had to

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Speaker 3: not could not do the race of Saturday, so I'd

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Speaker 1: Okay, So just to recap a couple of the key points, here. Firstly,

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Speaker 1: if you came in midway to this conversation, the voice

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Speaker 1: you're listening to belongs to Collet van Oswerchen, who is

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Speaker 1: the executive manager for Marketing and Sales at the Table

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Speaker 1: Mountain Aerial Cableway Company. They have taken over managing this

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Speaker 1: event lock Stock and Barrel. We are talking about the

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Speaker 1: Cableway Charity Challenge and it is set to happen on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: the ninth of May.

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Speaker 2: Entries are open.

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Speaker 1: Now, which is why we're talking about it now, so

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Speaker 1: the website Charity Challenge dot co dotza.

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Speaker 2: How are the entries looking so far? Callete?

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Speaker 3: Okay, so to date we've we have sixty five entries.

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Speaker 3: We have space for two hundred and fifty so there's

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Speaker 3: lots of space for participants, okay. And we've so far

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Speaker 3: fast corporate teams have entered and six schools. So again,

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Speaker 3: you know, we'd like to call on listeners, those who

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Speaker 3: the website Charity Challenge.

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Speaker 1: Hope you're going to fill up those remaining spots very quickly,

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Speaker 1: collect and at the least a few of them will

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Speaker 1: belong to Cape Talk listeners who heard this interview and

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Speaker 1: look forward to hearing how much money is raised on

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Speaker 1: the ninth of May this year. The beneficiaries once again

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Speaker 1: and the conversation that got this started in the first place,

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Speaker 1: Wilderness Search and Rescue. Collette, thank you for the effort

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Speaker 1: involved on their behalf, and thanks for chatting to us today.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much for this opportunity, Peta.

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Speaker 1: It's a huge pleasure. Collet van Asbergen of the Table

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Speaker 1: Mountain Aerial Cableway Company