Tusk & Tyre Overlanding
About Corné Tewitz & Tusk & Tyre
Corné Tewitz
Corné Tewitz is a South African overlanding filmmaker and 4x4 travel creator based in Benoni, Gauteng. He is the founder and the face behind Tusk & Tyre Overlanding: the channel, the routes, the stories, and the lens that captures them.
Corné has driven the remote tracks of Southern Africa for years: deep Kalahari sand, high-mountain passes in Namibia, river crossings in Botswana, and coastal dune belts on the Atlantic coast. For him, overlanding is not a holiday. It is a way of seeing the continent, slowly, honestly, and with open eyes.
He prefers 20 hours of driving into Botswana over 20 hours of flying anywhere else in the world. The African bush gives him something nothing else does: silence, wildness, connection, and a reminder of how small we are under a sky full of burning stars.
Corné handles all filming, editing and production for Tusk & Tyre himself, from dashcam voice notes in the cab to drone footage above sand ridges, producing a cinematic, documentary-style record of each journey.
What Tusk & Tyre Overlanding Is
Tusk & Tyre Overlanding is an African overlanding documentary channel. It follows multi-week 4x4 expeditions across Southern Africa and tells those journeys as long-form episodic stories: real routes, real breakdowns, real wildlife, real people, real decisions in the bush.
The channel does not script its stories around a perfect outcome. Tyres blow. Turbos fail. Plans change. Those moments are part of the record. The result is a documentary series that captures what overlanding in Africa actually looks and feels like, not a highlight reel.
Current series include Wild Side of Mabua, a Botswana Kalahari expedition into Mabuasehube, and Where Paths Begin, a Namibia journey from Ruacana Falls in the far north through Kaokoland, Damaraland, Swakopmund, and south toward Lüderitz. Future expeditions are planned for Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
The channel is based on the principle that adventure begins where the tar ends.
Motsumi: The Overland Vehicle
Motsumi is the name of Corné's overland vehicle. In the Setswana language, motsumi means hunter, a fitting name for a truck built to find remote Africa and bring the story home.
- Base vehicle
- 2005 Ford F250 4x4 SuperDuty
- Engine
- a 5.9 litre 6BT Cummins diesel (engine swap), chosen for parts availability and long-range torque across Africa.
- Camper system
- Custom overlanding camper built by Blinkgat Products, a South African manufacturer specialising in off-road camper bodies
- Electrical
- Dual-battery system with solar charging
- Recovery & support
- Onboard recovery gear, fridge, extended-range fuel and water capacity, roof rack storage
- Tyres
- 37/12.5R17 Cooper mud-terrain, running large-diameter rubber for deep sand and rocky terrain
- Trailer
- Leaf-spring trailer towed on Namibia expedition, carrying additional gear and fuel
Documentary Style
Tusk & Tyre content is produced in a documentary style: long-form episodes structured around the chronology of each expedition, with in-cab voice notes, GoPro trail footage, drone aerials, wildlife sequences and campfire evening segments woven into a single continuous narrative.
Corné films alone or with the travel group, using a Canon R50 mirrorless camera, DJI RS4 gimbal, DJI Mini 5 Pro drone, GoPro MAX 360, DJI Osmo Pocket 3, and a dual wireless lavalier mic setup. All editing is done by Corné in post-production.
The style is honest rather than polished. Mechanical failures, navigation decisions, fuel calculations, road conditions and camp logistics are all part of the story. Viewers see the planning, the problem-solving and the consequence of both, not just the scenic payoff.
Platforms & Where to Follow
Tusk & Tyre publishes long-form episodic content primarily on YouTube, with short-form and behind-the-scenes content on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook.