NATIONAL NEWS - One year after racing car driver Gugu Zulu died while trying to climb Mount Kilimanjaro‚ his wife‚ Letshego will return to the mountain to honour him.
Letshego said she decided last year that she would be a part of this year’s Trek4Mandela climb up Kilimanjaro.
The hike‚ which is undertaken each year to raise funds to keep girls in school by buying them sanitary pads‚ will this year follow the theme of #Climb4Gugu in honour of the late athlete.
“Even as I was descending last year with Gugu‚ I knew that I had to return again. I had to do it for him. I had to do it for me. I had to do it for the people this initiative helps support.
“I want to honour my husband and I’m going back in memory of him. I know it is what he would have wanted‚” she said.
Gugu died after attempting the very same climb last year‚ after struggling with respiratory problems.
Letshego said the months that followed Gugu’s death were some of the hardest of her life and often she was “on autopilot”.
