About Umzumbe Surf Club
BACK
THE SURFER.
We get young surfers who love the ocean onto boards they can call their own — and to contests they have earned the right to surf.
The story
How Umzumbe Surf Club started.
Umzumbe is a stretch of KwaZulu-Natal coastline where the swell shows up clean almost every week of the year. The young locals see it. They watch it pump from the road on the way to school. Some of them want to surf it.
The hard part is not the talent. It is everything else. A second-hand 6'0" costs more than a month of groceries. A wetsuit costs more than a school uniform. A trip to J-Bay or Cape St Francis for a regional contest — flights, accommodation, entry, coach — is out of reach without help.
“The talent on this coast is not the problem. The cost of getting to a contest is.”
Umzumbe Surf Club exists to close that gap. We back specific surfers — by name, by competition, by deadline — with the boards, the wetsuits, the trips, and the coaching that turn talent into a career.
This is not a charity that wants to make you feel good about yourself. It is a club that wants to put SA surfers on the WSL Qualifying Series.
How it works
Where the money actually goes.
01
Allocated by name
Every donation tagged to a surfer is allocated to that surfer's fund — tracked separately and spent only on them, not the club's general pot.
02
One surfer, one deadline
Every campaign funds one named surfer to one real competition or goal — not a vague general fund. You back a person, not a category.
03
No admin fee
Umzumbe Surf Club takes zero percent — we don't skim donations. Only PayFast's standard payment-processing fee is deducted; the rest goes to the surfer.