GRAAFF-REINET NEWS - Nuno Morais and Morné Swart of the #ShutSADown movement arrived in Graaff-Reinet on 10 August, as part of their mission to demand a safer South Africa.
A group of supporters waited for them at the NG Church on Church Street. Early July, the two men set out to travel from Johannesburg to Cape Town, where they plan to deliver a list of demands and solutions to Parliament. Morais runs parts of these distances.
"We demand change because we cannot allow another 178 302 people to get murdered during the next ten years. And we can't allow another 567 720 women to be sexually assaulted either," Swart wrote on the #ShutSADown Facebook page.
The Graaff-Reiner Advertiser caught up with them at the Valley of Desolation, where they showed the car in which they are travelling, wrapped with the names of murdered children and women in South Africa.
#ShutSADown was founded in February this year and has over 200 000 members. According to Swart, the group has only one focus: to unify South Africans.
And where to next? "We’ll pick a spot when we get in the car," said Swart.
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