Listen to the radio interview here:
(Interview recorded in February 2025, published with Primedia+ in April 2025)
By Tasleem Gierdien, 3 April 202
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🗓️ February 4th, 8pm
📍Sea Point Pavillion
✊🏽 In keeping with our roots and new commitment to walk with intention, next Tuesday we will walk in solidarity with woman leaders of Reclaim the City's Ahmed Kathrada House (AKH) occupation.
🧩 We will walk Sea Point to build our understanding of how race, class and more affects women's experience of our streets.
🏗️ This walk includes a special stop at the Tafelberg site, an unused prime piece of public land in Sea Point that woman domestic workers in the area have been fighting to access since the 1980s.
🏛️ The fight for affordable housing on Tafelberg goes to the Constitutional Court on 11 February - join the walk to learn more!
👥 Anyone who identifies as a woman or as non-binary is welcome.
As we welcome in 2025, here's a reminder of the great energy from our last walk of 2024.
This was our first walk after a long winter hibernation... and it was a special one. In keeping with our movement's roots and new commitment to walk with intention, we walked in solidarity with Capetonian sex workers, many of whom have been violently attacked in this area. It was held in collaboration with our friends from SWEAT - the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce. They helped us identify a route through Belville where sex workers are often the target of police harassment and violence.
While Women Walk at Midnight reclaims the right to joy in walking at night, we also recognise that this is something many do for work and survival. It was good to walk together in solidarity for the right to safe public space for all of us who use the streets at night.
Thank you Belville, and thank you to SWEAT, for the opportunity to walk and learn in community.
Photos reflect some of the experiences on the night, with two bonus images of organisers enjoying a pre-walk Ethiopian feast at the highly recommended Yetembe restaurant!
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