The Four Wheel Drive Club of Southern Africa

Cross-Border Safari Register

The Four Wheel Drive Club of Southern AfricaThe Cross-Border Safari Register is a database of information about you and your fellow travellers which is stored by the club to be made available to relevant bodies should something go wrong on your cross-border trip.

The Four Wheel Drive Club of Southern Africa offers the following service to its members whereby details of their cross-border 4x4 and off-road trips can be forwarded to the club office. By filling in the details on the form below, valuable time can be saved if a search and rescue mission has to be launched to find you, and the time saved could mean the difference between life and death - yours!

4x4 safaris and off-road trips are great fun, and it is so easy, when the excitement is building towards your departure date, to overlook the mundane and even boring chore of planning for a disaster that in all likelihood will never happen. However, it makes good sense to remember that this is Africa, where things can and do go wrong.  

You owe it to your family, who rely on you to be their provider and protector, to spend a few minutes completing this register. None of the information provided by you will be used for any purpose whatsoever other than to be issued to rescuers in an emergency. The information will not appear on any web site anywhere and it will not be accessible to the public. The information will be E-mailed to the Club Secretary and placed on file, from where it can be requested by relevant bodies should the need arise.

Neither the Four Wheel Drive Club of Southern Africa, nor the Off-Road Rescue Unit are in any way bound to launch a search and rescue mission on the basis of your submission of information on this page. The intention is to create a secure, private repository of vital and accurate information should the unthinkable happen.

N.B. The Cross-Border Safari Register will only work if someone back home reports you missing so you need to set up that safety net yourself. Please read through the Security Recommendations for Cross-Border 4x4 Travel to help you to plan your trip from a safety point of view. 

 

Each member of your group should complete and submit this questionnaire which is for members of the FWDCSA only.

Your surname
Your first name
Your identity number
Your passport number
Your home street address



Your satellite phone number
Your cell phone number
Your home phone number
(including area code)
Your work phone number
(including area code)
Your fax number
(including area code)
Your car registration number
Your car year and make
E.g. 2006 Toyota
Your car model and style
E.g. Hilux Double Cab 
Your car colour
Your date of departure (including the year)
Your date of return home ( including the year)
Your planned itinerary and towns
Example:
10 Oct - Johannesburg
11 Oct - Lobatse border
11 Oct - Rhino Sanctuary
12 Oct - Kubu Island
13 Oct - Audi Camp, Maun
...and so on back to your home. 
Date Location
  Driver Car Model Colour Reg No Cell No
A list of the names, cars and cell numbers for each vehicle in your group 1
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Do you have a GPS? Have you created your trip route on MapSource? If so, E-mail the file to the Club Secretary. Use this naming convention: 4x4_register_route_yyyy_mm_yourname.gdb

The data in this form will be used for no other purpose than to assist with a search and rescue mission. 
By clicking on the 'Submit' button, you authorise that the above information may be made available to authorities, search commanders and their teams.

  

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