The Sussexes have now departed Nyanga township and are headed to their next engagement in District Six, a former inner-city mixed-race neighbourhood where freed slaves, migrants, workers and merchants lived alongside each other for decades.
In 1966, the government declared it a whites-only area and more than 60,000 residents were forcibly removed and relocated to the Cape Flats township. Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex has hailed the “incredible work” done by a South African community group to combat gender-based violence.
You are incredible and what you are doing is so powerful because you are so powerful,” she told workers and volunteers at the Justice Desk in Cape Town’s Nyanga township. “The work that is being done here to keep women and children safer is needed more than ever.
Meghan said she and Prince Harry had been following South Africa’s gender violence crisis as much as they could from afar, but that they were keen to learn more now that they were in the country.
“We are eager to learn and see first hand the vital work that you’re doing … on the ground to make the change, not just that you need but also deserve.
In other news – Investigation launched after US officer arrests 6-year-old girl
Meralyn Kirkland couldn’t believe what she was being told. The caller on Thursday had a message about her granddaughter, Kaia Rolle. The 6-year-old had been arrested at her Orlando charter school and was going to be taken to a juvenile facility.
I say, ‘What do you mean she was arrested?’” Kirkland told WKMG on Friday. There was “an incident,” Kirkland recalled the caller saying – Kaia “kicked somebody and she’s being charged. Read more
