Jaco Nieman (Step brother in South Africa)

Jaco wrote these two very special poems for Hendri which was captured in the Centurion memorial leaflet on 28 Jan...

Bingo (Uganda)

I will really miss his company and the calm and peace he carried around with him always struck me as...

Marie Coetzee Nieman (South Africa)

Marie, Hendri’s mother, wrote this prayer for his Memorial in Uganda on 8 January. It was there printed and distributed...

Corne van Biljon (South Africa)

Hendri decided at one stage to cut off all the couch potatoes and side liners on his social network. He...

Nicky Stroebel (New Zealand)

When I met Hendri he was a shy, inexperienced soul just out of the army and I honestly can’t believe...

Andrew McMartin (Canada)

I met Hendri when I was 20, over 10 years ago! He took care of me in Uganda, on the...

Jim Cummings (Norway)

I’m just writing to say that Hendri was point blank a legend, he had friends all over the world, and...

Kaya Melesi (Uganda/Kenya)

Hendri is probably the most amazing human being I have ever been lucky to know. And I really mean that...

Dave Humpleby (United Kingdom)

We met in Livingstone, Zambia. When we first met there he had never sat in a kayak before. Yet in...

Gustav Nel (Canada)

Hendri se dood is soos ‘n reuse boom wat afgekap is in die bos waar hy skaduwee vir almal gegee...