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Cape Town – No one in the Mother City complains about the rain anymore, so even cold and cold clouds did not allow bikers to get to Drakenstein Prison on Saturday morning, headed by Zelda La Grange, who was Tata Madiba's personal badistant for many years.
They parked both sides of Darling Street – closed for the occasion – full, several deep bikes, for two blocks, overflowing the area provided for by the traffic services of several hundred meters. And it was much more than a mere motorcycle event – even though the riders of the "Skating Club" were there in number.
The highly professional fleet of Lancet Laboratories scooters was there in full force on their white Vespas, just like the recently formed Sym. The Cape Town Social Club, alongside the Harley Owners Group and a whole range of motorcycles, all ridden by Capetonians who thought that living Madiba's legacy was more important than staying warm and dry.
Because the event involved something very close to Mandela 's heart – education, especially the school days missed by so many of them. Teenage girls in South Africa because they simply do not have access to something as basic as sanitary napkins. The "Keep a Girl in School" campaign aims to provide millions of schoolgirls with what they need to stay in school throughout their cycle – a modest yet essential step to give millennials who will inherit this country the best possible start.
It was comforting to see the big backpacks brought by most of the riders, and the embarrbaded but determined faces of the men who did not know what to bring, as they crowded around the Mimi women's stand in front of the town hall. crates buying not one, but several packages, each enough to keep a girl in school for a year.
They say that it's raining on your parade, it's a sign that the ancestors approve; if so, the heavy rain that started as soon as La Grange approached the mike to greet the runners and stopped when the last rider left Darling Street, has sealed the event of the day in clear terms. Mayor Patricia de Lille sent them on their way with an invitation to make it an annual event of Bikers for Mandela and, in typical Capetonian fashion, from the beginning, the sun rose. The descent to Drakenstein Prison was remarkable only for the steam coming out of the riders' clothes as they dried up, and the pile of sanitary napkins around the base of the statue of Mandela at the Drakenstein Prison that commemorated the Where he took the last few triumphant steps of his long march to freedom in 1990.
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