Document SRC-5015
Root 44 parkrun news page (posts incl. 24 Mar 2025 'Root44 reborn', 7 Aug 2025 'Root44 on hold')
- Original address
- https://www.parkrun.co.za/root44/news/
- Retrieved
- 29 October 2026
- Archived copy
- An archived copy is held by the project
- Why it matters
- Event team's own account of restart (8 Mar 2025, 286 participants) and suspension due to lapsed temporary event permit.
Original document
Claims citing this document
- VerifiedEditor-approved parkrun's event team posted that Root44 parkrun stopped in March 2020 because of Covid-19. The municipal spokesperson told District Mail (May 2022) that its temporary land-use permission lapsed on 20 July 2020, that a consent-use application with public participation was required (Agriculture and Rural zoning permits consent use), and that one had been submitted for Farm 537 and Rem. Farm 1537.
- VerifiedEditor-approved Root44 parkrun resumed on Saturday 8 March 2025 as event #357, with 286 participants per the event team's post (parkrun blog: 'just over 300 runners, joggers, walkers and volunteers').
- VerifiedEditor-approved District Mail reported that Root44 parkrun's last event was on 26 July 2025. parkrun's own post said the event was suspended because its temporary event permit lapsed "as a result of insurance issues and other local regulations"; the event page now says it "no longer takes place" (375 events recorded; page retrieved 29 Oct 2026). District Mail attributed the suspension to a pending permit renewal; no source records a municipal refusal.