The UNITY FLIGHT OF SOUTH AFRICA The Flight section

The Ufosa UNITY FLIGHT starts Monday 1 October 2007.

The Flight routing is marked on the map below, with the direction of flight indicated by the red arrows:

Robert Vallier will depart from Cape Town at 10am on 1 October, and his first stop will be Beaufort West. 

The point of departure of Cape Town has been chosen as this was, of course, the place where Nelson Mandela chose to spend his first night of freedom after his 27 years of incarceration on Robben Island, Victor Verster Prison in Paarl and then Pollsmoor Prison. 

The UNITY FLIGHT takes us away from Cape Town to indicate, significantly, the Freedom of the Individual, inherent Human Rights and the unity of the South African people as embraced by the Constitution of the RSA - and represented by the UNITY FLIGHT itself.

Generally, Robert will fly North-East first, taking in the major coastal cities of Port Elizabeth and Durban as well as travelling into the heart of the Nation to reach remote and smaller rural areas and also Johannesburg and Pretoria.  The most northern stop will be at the small town of Messina.

The route then takes on a South-Westerly direction, reaching destinations such as Mafikeng, Kimberley and Carnarvon; then up to Twee Rivieren in the far North-West, and back down to Halfeg.

Robert will then fly West to Alexander Bay on the coast, and then South again.  Finally Robert will fly his aircraft to Cape Town, where the nation’s UNITY FLIGHT OF SOUTH AFRICA will end.

The total distance flown will be 4,004 nautical miles, over 30 days.

The Route Map