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Bikers for Mandela Day get thumbs up from Tutu Legacy Foundation

Zelda la Grange
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The Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation is supporting the Bikers for Mandela Day and Nelson Mandela Foundation initiative to supply sanitary pads to three million girls across the country.

The pads will be delivered to girls who miss school because they can’t afford to buy sanitary pads.

Bikers for Mandela was started by Madiba’s former assistant, Zelda la Grange eight years ago.

Various  bike rallies will be taking place in Cape Town and Johannesburg.

2018’s commemoration of Mandela Day celebrates his 67 years of service, but also marks the 100th anniversary of his birth.

The Cape Town rally will assemble on the Grand Parade next Saturday morning and make its way to Paarl, where the ride will conclude outside the Drakenstein Correctional Centre, formerly known as Victor Verster Prison, from which Mandela walked to freedom 28 years ago.

In Johannesburg on Sunday, bikers will gather at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton.

Riders are asked to bring one pack of sanitary pads or as many as they can afford or carry for the ride.

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