Competing as a “Wild Card” entry in the 2nd round of the 2011 FIM AFRICA Southern Off Road Championships, Brother Broadlink KTM team rider Darryl Curtis (300 KTM) came out “Top Dog” at the Tom Reeve Memorial Off Road event held at Dorvic Farm, Mazabuka, Zambia on Saturday 26th March.

There is a new kid on the block - the Namibian quad racer, Dirkie Baard (Race Nation Honda Windhoek) became the first non-South African racer to win the Quad Roof of Africa in Lesotho. It was the Baard’s second try and he managed to add his name to the record books after one of the toughest Roof of Africa events for quad racers.

The African Motorcycle Union held its first leg of the AMU Quad Cup 2009 at "Dirt Bronco" MX Track on the outskirts of Krugersdorp, Gauteng Province, South Africa, on 7th March 2009. Between the mine heaps, and on a hard but awesome track, 7 Namibian riders took up the challenge to compete in this very competitive extreme sport against riders from South Africa and neighboring states. 5 talented local riders from Walvis Bay and 2 lady riders from Windhoek, stood proudly Namibian.

Tyla Rattray, who became the third South African in 16 years to win a motocross world championship, taking the hotly contested MX2 title in 2008 in a season that included a round in Nelspruit, South Africa, is the 2008 Bridgestone/Guild of Motoring Journalists Motor Sportsman of the Year.

MX is way more than racing. It’s full of wonderful personalities and stories. I did start to work for Mxworld to bring the human side of MX to the people. For a while now I wanted to learn more about a special South African rider. His name is Karl Stegen.

After all the last minute organizing and anticipation, the 7 Namibian riders returned home with well earned success and holding their heads high. It was an enormous experience for our riders facing possibly their toughest race conditions yet. The track conditions, although absolutely of the highest standards, were not what our riders are used to. Riding borrowed bikes with only a short time to get used to them, did not make it any easier.

From the 17th to the 19th of August the Motocross Africa Championships 2007 will be hosted in the vicinity of Kenya’s capital Nairobi.

Planning by the Namibians started early this season already but by March it was clear that the costs for the Namibian national team would be too high. As often before, the endeavour failed due to the costs for the transportation of the bikes. Unfortunately the invitation had to be turned down.

Elmer died competing in Stage Four of the 2007 Dakar Rally.

Elmer was born in South Africa and was a National Off Road Champion in his native land, having won the prestigious Roof of Africa Rally. His friendly demeanor, commitment and passion for the sport infected all who knew him.

Karl’s death obviously came as a huge shock to us, and many others.

Everyone who knew us well will know that we were a very close family, and his death was expected to affect us very badly. Yes, it has, but really nothing quite like what we expected or what we had been told. At least not up to this stage. To some extent his death is still sinking in and in so many ways we want to do something or other, only to realize that Karl is no longer with us.

The AMU (African Motorcycle Union) Baja, which took place last weekend in the vicinity of Harare was overall a great success. However it has to be mentioned that only 4 countries took part and the best riders from South Africa did not participate. It is about time to investigate, why the interest of particularly South African riders is lacking, not only in Enduro but the same applies in the AMU Southern African Moto Cross Challenge.