Skollie shifts 2026

Skollie assists all wheeled vehicles, including mutants, service vehicles, and private vehicles, to ensure safe navigation at AfrikaBurn. Responsibilities include:

• Skollie volunteers assist to direct new arrivals on site find their way to their camps, direct them and point out the parking areas etc

• Skollie do general site wide patrols, eyes and ears to keep Mutants happy and safe

• Setting Mutant Perimeters at large burns 30 paces outside fire perimeter, keep all wheels out of pedestrian fire perimeter, evacuation corridors and away from fire crew gear and areas.

• Assist movement and deployment of large rigs on the Binnekring,

• Monitor service vehicles, mobile stages, and mutants

• Acting as eyes and ears for VOC, responding to situations requiring intervention Senior or Lead Skollies:

• Volunteers: Patrol on foot or monitor from their mutant, serving as extra observers.

• Supporting the mutant community in safe operation and navigation

Training

• Volunteers: Receive guidance on observation and escalation without direct engagement.

• Basic training and orientation will happen on site and as recruits get deployed

• Radio Protocol training

• What to look out for, how to report it - ID - Location - transgression/concern etc.

2025 Volunteer Skollie Guideline