Bikers show their caring side
MAYOR Patricia de Lille commended bikers who participated in Cape Town’s Bikers for Mandela Rally, speaking prior to the event that supported “Mimi Women’s Keep A Girl In School campaign”.
About 500 bikers from across Cape Town united to donate sanitary pads to local schoolgirls, attempting to reduce the 50 days of school some young women miss every year due to restricted access to sanitary products.
Prior to the event, more than 700 packets of pads were collected by Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation staff, while many more were donated on the day. De Lille was enthused by the support given, saying, “A donation of as little as R180 can provide enough sanitary pads to keep one young girl in school for an entire year. The City is determined to make Cape Town a more caring and inclusive city, and everyone here today is testament to that goal.”
The riders assembled on the Grand Parade from 8am on Saturday and made their way to Paarl, where the ride ended outside the Drakenstein Correctional Centre (formerly Victor Verster Prison) from which Nelson Mandela walked to freedom in 1990.
De Lille said: “It is significant that the ride will end at the Drakenstein Prison, the place where Tata Madiba took his first steps to freedom after 27 years of imprisonment by the apartheid government. We are honoured that we can still celebrate and carry on his legacy by serving those in need.”
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