Our Living Community - 26 November 2025

We kick off the new year with a new organisation! We're turning a search light onto an organisation who helps you when you get into difficulty in wilderness areas like Table Mountain. David Nel told Otto van der Walt about the founding and associated organisations of Wilderness Search and Rescue.

As we wrap up this series looking at the NSRI, Andrew Ingram gives Otto van der Walt some suggestions of how we can help or get involved.

Innovation often develops out of new technologies becoming more accessible and affordable. But it takes some clever minds to bring together all the right bits of new technology to bring about innovation that can potentially save lives. In the episode of Wednesday 24 December, Andrew Ingram from the NSRI tells…

The NSRI runs various educational programmes in the communities they serve. One of these wonderful programmes teaches young kids how to help someone who is in trouble in the water, and even do CPR. Andrew Ingram from the NSRI told Otto van der Walt about this programme and of a…

We've all seen movies where drownings are depicted. But what is acted out for dramatic affect is not reality. In this episode Andrew Ingram from the NSRI tells Otto van der Walt what drowning actually looks like and gives very important tips on identifying a drowning and what to do…