The Annual Mthunzi Fun Run will take palce on Tuesday, December 16. It will celebrate its 15th anniversary.

The fun run is open to everybody willing to participate, and is aimed at ending the year in a good spirit.

It is also aimed at helping people reduce weight and the risk of disease, and strengthen the body.

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Those who prefer to walk rather than run have been accommodated in the event.

The main organiser of the fun run, Adv DJ Sibuyi, spoke about the importance of an exercise to a human being.

“Being physically active can improve your brain health, help manage weight, reduce the risk of disease, strengthen bones and muscles, and improve your ability to do everyday activities,” Sibuyi said last year.

The Advocate of the Masses, as Sibuyi is affectionately known, said he was tired of the high court legal battles that he fought during the year.

Sibuyi is the main legal guru in the late former deputy president DD Mabuza estate high court fight among his family members.

He was also instrumental in the high court case concerning the education department’s refusal to release all the 2022 outstanding matric results that the department withheld because of alleged cheating by the learners.

Last year’s participants in the fun run saw people coming from around the Bushbuckridge, Gauteng, Limpopo, Western Cape, Eswatini, Mozambique and overseas.

Victor Sibuyi, the advocate’s son, sees to it that the administration side of the fun run goes according to plan.

The fun run starts at Mkhuhlu Post Office at 05:30 and ends at Mthunzi Lodge in Hazyview.

Football and netball will be played later in the day at the Mkhuhlu soccer field.

Lots of prizes that include cash have been made available for the winners.

Anyone interested in registering for the fun run may do via the email: registrations@mthunzifunrun.co.za, or call Mxolisi Manana on 081 738 2683.