Hennenman Memorial Race Day: 2026

In memorial of the Hennenman Air Disaster of 12 April 1988 and the 24 lives lost when a United Airways flight from Bloemfontein, carrying a number of prominent members of the racing community, crashed into a field near the town of Hennenman.

The lives lost were:

• Warren Bailie
• Keith Basel
• Michael Coetzee
• Bennie de Wet
• Johannes “Rooies” Fourie
• Greg Holme
• Danny Lombard
• John McMurtry
• Mark Nel
• Simon Rahilly
• Lawrence Riley
• Douglas Roper
• Gordon Sterley

• Dave Bullock
• Henry Havergal
• Graham Kent
• Ginger Masterton
• Johannes van der Linden

• Neville Blignaut
• Jacobus Viljoen

• Hennie van Wyk

• Jacob Kalt
• Harold Whitehead
• Jacqueline Henderson

Gone, but never forgotten.