On Saturday, protesters took to the streets in the Mother City to display outrage and demand action in the wake of frequent gender-based violence incidents in SA.
One of the students who was arrested, David Shields, told TimesLIVE after his court appearance that he
“It was more of a remembrance and to be there to march in solidarity with the young females, the old females, and just a space for people to be heard. But in Cape Town, Swallows said they felt that their protest needed to address the various forms of violence and the state's inability to protect its citizens. Therefore they rode under the banner “South Africans against racism and crime”.
Biking fraternities in the Western Cape have ridden in protest against gender-based violence in the past, specifically during the funeral of Hannah Cornelius, a student who was raped and murdered in 2017, and after fellow biker Zelda van Niekerk was murdered in 2018.
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