Living Life to the Max

Nonhlakanipho Tau is a 32-year-old civil engineer from Randburg with a love of the mountains, travel, the outdoors - and trail running.

If you bump into this self-confessed adventure junkie and sucker for pain on the trails, you will know all about it. The effervescent mother of three says she is arguably the loudest trail runner you will ever meet.

But she’s more than talk. In 2021, while on her mission to run a race in all nine provinces, Nonhla made a name for herself at ultras around the country.

She finished fourth in the women’s race in her first