Ndaba Ndlovu, the Managing Director was born in Lupane, a small town between Victoria Falls and Bulawayo. Ndaba completed high school in Plumtree Boys High School where he returned to Bulawayo for an apprenticeship.
In the meantime his family moved to a small town called Hwange just outside Zimbabwe's largest National Park also named 'Hwange'. The town of Hwange is located 100km before Victoria Falls. He came to see his family here and thought it would be nice to visit the Victoria Falls as a tourist. Upon arrival he met some of his old school mates that were working on the Zambezi as rafting guides. This gave him the opportunity to go on the river and since then he has never gone back to his old trade. He started working on the river at the end of 1992. He guided with other adventure companies.
In 1995 he met a New Zealander in his raft who had come to Africa to set up Outward Bound South Africa. Having liked the way Ndaba worked he offered him a job. Without hesitation Ndaba took the job and went to South Africa to train up to become an Outward Bound Instructor. His main strength was water based activities. Whilst there Ndaba had a lot of time to think about what he really wanted to do. He returned to his old job on the Zambezi for three months, ventured into sales where he would earn his living selling adventure products to tourists. This is probably where his real future began. It wasn't long in that year that he was promoted to the regions Sales & Marketing Manager.
He continued to work with United Touring Group until end of 1997. He joined an international multi-day rafting company to set up the one day operation. In the year of 1998 he continued to raft and manage Adrift. During this year his relationship with Rita who is also a Director of the company became very serious. They got married in 1999 and Julian their son was born. After having been away to Switzerland, he returned to set up Touch Adventure. Since then Touch Adventure is one of the top adventure companies running white water rafting trips and cultural activities. The company continues to offer these activities at an incredibly high standard, proven by the number of tourists that have actually experienced Touch Adventure products.
Titus Maseko, our Sales Manager was born in a small village called Gokwe. He grew up in simply surroundings and attended all his education there. This made his life a lot easier as his father was headmaster at the school there which enrolled both junior and high school students. Upon completion of his education he moved to Bulawayo to start computer, hotel, tourism and travel caused at a college in Bulawayo. Naturally having accomplished his cllege studies there moved to the tourism town of Victoria Falls. He joined A'Zambezi River Lodge as a cashier and receptionist in 1995 to 1997. During his employment there he gained tremendous amoutn of experience as he usually worked under numerous pressure as these were the most booming years of tourism influx.
He later joined a canoe company in 1997 which later opened up white water rafting in 1998. During his employment there he managed several positions namely, accounts clerk, sales consultant, overland groups consultant and finally marketing consultant. In his three years with the company he gained much more experience and confidence which is very evident with the way he conducts his duties. He left his previous employment to join Touch Adventure for his classic challenge. having worked with the Managing Director of Touch Adventure in the past, his enrolment to the company was well enticipated. He has taken up the position os Sales Manager. His previous experience combining sales and accounts qualified him for the position he holds today. He is charming and a very important member of the team. We are very confident that most of the travellers that have dealt with Titus will agree that his knowledge of the area leaves no doubt for returning guests to call on Titus again for the holiday. When you have a planned holiday do not hesitate to call on him for information, not only for our products but hotels and any other holiday package in the area.
Mr T, our Senior Raft Guide was born North of Zambia and completed his education there. Upon arriving to Livingstone he was attracted by the Zambezi. Having completed his training in 1983, he joined the pioneers of the Zambezi 'Sobek'. In 1987 he left the Zambezi to go to the USA where he guided on five different rivers, the South Fork, Tuolumne, Marced, North Fork and the Cherry Creek. Having loved working in the USA, he went to check out the Chuya River in Siberia. After a long and cold season he missed home so much that he returned to the Zambezi ever since. He joined Touch Adventure in 1999 which is the year the company opened. He has since been appointed the company's senior guide. His experience need not be told. Guests from all over the world arrive and all we here them ask for is Mr T (Elias Sakala. He continues to flourish on the Zambezi. He lives in the town of Livingstone with his family.
Touch Adventure Nature Guide, Rita Griffin was born on a farm in the green hills of Somerset, southwest England. With growing up in country surroundings, her passion for animals and nature grew. During her early teens Rita's family moved to Switzerland. There Rita was obliged to learn the German language and complete her education and science studies. Soon after Rita was drawn away from the snowy mountains to the hot plains and vast wildernesses of Africa. Arriving in Zimbabwe in the early 80's, Rita started working in a research department at the University of Zimbabwe in the capital - Harare. On following her real interests, Rita would spend every moment she could get away from the city to the Zimbabwean National Parks and wilderness areas - observing and marveling at this spectacle of true nature.
Other nature areas invited Rita to further explorations and after extensive traveling all over the globe - in Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Central America and naturally Africa ("from tip to toe"), Rita engaged herself in a demanding career in a research laboratory. Yet after a few years, Rita decided to return to Southern Africa - to another densely populated area, but this time it was not inhabited by people, but sustained large animal concentrations...
Botswana 1995, Rita obtained a "Professional Guides License" and started working for a renown safari company based in Maun, Botswana. The company offered high standard overland camping safaris to tailor-made game lodge safaris for the wildlife enthusiasts. Rita - fluent in German - specialized in guiding safaris for the German-speaking market. Her friendly and outgoing nature and her expertise on wildlife offered every safari guest a rewarding and unique experience. Her love and unconditioned passion of the Wild could touch even the wary client, enabling them to acquire affection and admiration for all wild beasts and birds.
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