Riding for the disabled in South Africa  

In 1973, after a visit to the RDA Diamond Centre in England, Belinda Sampson, mother of a cerebral palsied son, Andrew, returned to Cape Town eager to start a similar venture in South Africa.  Within a short space of time, Velvet, a kindly chestnut gelding donated by the Newman family of Bergvliet Farm, took up residence in one of the loose boxes at Morgenzon, Belinda and Colwyn Sampson’s home in Constantia.  Joy Finlay, a well-known rider and national judge, offered to teach.  A generous donation from Harold Kennedy was used to purchase tack and set the ball rolling. The first classes for five cerebral palsied children from Vista Nova School began in the paddock at Morgenzon in November 1973.  These first pupils were Noel Hughes, Alan Livingstone, Caren Perrow, Erik Truter and Andrew Sampson.

-  History of RDA in Britain
-  Some SARDA milestones