Team OJays, best dressed at the 2026 Lekker Resies, pose in matching costumes

05 Newcastle Airshow · Lekker Resies · Memel Walk

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02 — At a glance

Champ Group doesn't only run events for clients; it runs its own. For eleven years it brought the Newcastle Airshow to town. The Newcastle Lekker Resies sends costumed teams racing across town for R10,000, and the Memel Walk takes walkers and runners across two provinces, from Memel to Newcastle.

Lekker Resies 2026
16 teams · 27 stops · R10,000 first prize
Memel Walk
About 51 km, Memel to Newcastle (distance to confirm)
Since
Memel Walk 1994 · Lekker Resies 2023

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A Lekker Resies team in pink wigs and red gloves strikes a pose in front of the race backdrop
A relay team in matching shirts gathers beside the ambulance and sponsor flags at the Memel Walk

03 — Highlights

Our events

Two Mazda-liveried aerobatic planes trailing smoke low over Newcastle airfield, the crowd, tents and parked cars below

Newcastle Airshow

For eleven shows, from 2011 to 2024, Champ Group brought the Newcastle Airshow to Newcastle Airport: formation teams, aerobatics and vintage aircraft, and a day out for the whole town.

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In pictures

Champ Events, up close

  • Team O-Jays in pink wigs and painted-on ties at the Barrel & Bru bar during the 2026 Lekker Resies
  • A Memel Run/Walk 2026 roadside sign: 29.1 km to go, you are a champ!
  • Two finishers with Johan Pieters and a sign reading: Congratulations, you just finished 51.2 km
  • Two South African Air Force Hawk jets flying in tight formation against a blue sky
  • A water table under a gazebo beside the road at the Memel Walk, with support vehicles parked opposite

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