Hi there, my name Craig, welcome to my world. I’m a Durban boy, born and bred. From very early in my life I took charge of looking after my family and, I suppose, forging the person I am today. My mother was divorced and not very well provided for, so from 14years old I was delivering news papers and bouncing at the local night clubs to help support her and my sister.

This led to me becoming streetwise from a very early age and was one of the leading reasons why I was a bonified colours wearing biker long before I had reached matric.
Those were some of the best years of my life, biking was very different in those days and my biggest concerns was keeping my bike maintained while I kept food on the table…………..oh yeah and to get through school without failing too.

I matriculated in 1987 and went to do my national service in 1988. This proved again to be a very good experience and I came out of the SADF some three years later, a changed, and better human being for it. I had spent time on the border as well as in many different places, met some very interesting people and learnt some very valuable lessons of life here. If it were up to me, all our male kids would go for those two years. As traumatic as it starts out, I don’t know of too many of my friends who were in with me that regret the experience and when you look at the arrogance in the youth of today you can see the difference between a personality forged from a disciplined routine of the army life against that of night club life and playstation 2 existence.

Well if you’re a business man of a similar age considering who you’d prefer to have looking after this event you need put together, you now know from what cloth I’m cut.
Today I’m a biker on my own time; I’m the president of one of the oldest clubs in KZN and have been with this club for 19 years this year. I’ve led the crew for some 12 years and it’s been one hell of a ride. There’s an association in KZN called the Kwa Zulu Natal Motorcycle Federation to which most of the clubs around belong. It’s a sort of central body, used by the bikers for co-ordinating and inter communication. For my sins, I’ve been chairman of the KZNMF for some eight years with the exception of one year when I was too badly injured from a bike accident to stand for the term. Still, it gives you an idea of the organisational and leadership qualities that my fellow club presidents see in me, and for the first time, for the purpose of this website, I’m using that recognition to my advantage, to enlighten you, who doesn’t know me, that I’m more than capable of taking on, and putting together whatever form of event you might need.

As a person, I’d describe myself as hard working, self disciplined with a wild sense of humour and an above average zest for life. I have ridden bikes my entire life and have been to most places in SA by motorcycle in all weather. In 2004 I hit a truck in Harrismith on my way down to the Cape. I broke my neck in the accident, and the experience left me paralysed in my left arm. You needn’t worry though, my arm hasn’t slowed me down at all and those that know me will tell you that I’m as capable as I ever was with nearly everything. I hide it well too, and you’ll be forgiven for not realizing I’ve got this handicap. I live in hope that perhaps one of these days, through stem cell research or something else, I’ll maybe get my arm back.

I’m also a dad, my six year old son Dylan Troy is the centre of my world and the main reason why Big Guns is going to be one of Durban and SA’s future event management leaders. I named the company; it echoes my attitude to life and to everything and anything I undertake…. Go Big or Go Home…that’s Craig Joubert and that’s what you can expect from BIG GUNS PROMOTIONS.

I’ve put many successful rallies and festivals on over the last 10 years, but through biking and not as my main business. I’ve been a motorcycle sales manager for the last twelve years in some of Durban’s leading motorcycle dealerships in both Durban and Pinetown. When I look back at that career, I worked with some real legends and some real idiots too. It was an over abundance of the latter coupled with the down ward spiralling economic situation in this country that finally made up my mind for me to follow my heart and go full time into event management.

I have a really competent business partner in Nick Welsher, and we both see essential, necessary qualities for this business in one another that we ourselves lack. We are like the electronics and engine of our motorcycles. Both are valuable but the real value only is realized when they work together. Similarly we were amazed at what we could accomplish when we combined our efforts and talents, and this led to us teaming up as Big Guns Promotions.

Well that’s my story, now all you need to do is to call out the BIG GUNS and let us show you what we can do for you.