Trip 7 Resources Then and Now!

 Trip7 is not a company. It is a calling.

It was never about making millions it was about survival. Out of seven recurring cancer diagnoses in seven years, the name was born. Trip7 is a toolbox forged in pain and faith, built not only to fund solutions but to design and deliver them — from ultrasonic gold nanotube production to save those from toxic cancer drug carriers, to reducing the Tip of the Iceberg left by our mining industry in South Africa and the rest of Africa where me and my father joined the millions of expats.

While Cancer Heroes and Face Value Foundation were born to help others, Trip7 is the vehicle that makes sustainable, technical, systemic help possible.

 In 2010, I scratched a mole on my back after a shower. That minor detail turned out to be a malignant melanoma. It was cut out, but no one followed up — life carried on with what we thought was a clean slate. Over the next two years, I saw five doctors, two specialists, an iridologist, and a witchdoctor. All of them missed what was truly killing me: a hidden beast inside my head.

In June 2012, after suffering through endless cortisone, inability to breathe lying down, and nearly losing hope, I saw an ENT specialist who finally ordered a CT scan. On June 27, 2012, I was diagnosed with Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma (squamous cell carcinoma) — a deeply invasive tumor reaching into my sinus cavity, bones, neck, and more. It didn’t stop there: nodules in the lung, parotid gland involvement, bone metastasis in T12, and eventually a 3.5cm tumor next to my pituitary gland in 2016.

One by one, we nuked them. 72 radiation sessions. Cisplatin. Gemzar. Even Hollywood teeth to survive the aftermath. By 2017, I had fought and survived seven recurrences in seven years.

On the eve of a long-awaited holiday to Thailand, another tumor — this time in my spine between C3 and C4. We cancelled the trip. Began radiation that Monday night.

I lived. And after 11 years of battles, and an oxygen-starving case of Covid pneumonia in between, I’m here — not just standing, but building.

Now, 13 years later we carry on!

 Over the years, I’ve made it a point to share my story, my journey, and my ideas freely. I do this not because I am naive — but because I am blessed.
Blessed to be alive. Blessed to have learned. Blessed to believe that if I can help even one soul a day, then none of this pain was in vain.

Sadly, that openness has at times been met with greed.
People — from one-man startups to corporations and opportunistic BEE entities — have taken the innovations, insights, and technical solutions I offered freely in faith, and twisted them for self-interest, profit, or exclusion.

When they realize I won’t surrender ownership or won’t let them hijack the mission for private gain, some have turned on me.
They’ve called me fake.
They’ve called me a racist.
They’ve even painted me as a criminal mastermind.

Let me be clear:

I forgive them.
Because they may never know what it takes to survive what I’ve lived through — and I pray they never will.
 

Trip7 is not for the greedy.
It is for the hurting, the faithful, the resilient — those who still believe in building for others even when it costs everything.

If you walk this road with truth and humility, you are welcome here.

If you walk it for your own gain alone, we part ways in peace.