Zille raises awareness for affected HIV children

By Nomava Nobumba
01 May 2010

The Premier of the Western Cape and the Leader of the Democratic Alliance Helen Zille will tomorrow morning be cycling the last two kilometres of the Kidzpositive Cycle Tour from Mowbray to the Grooter Schurr Hospital.

The party’s Ross Van der Linder says Zille’s initiative is to raise awareness for children affected by HIV and AIDS.

The campaign started last month in the Eastern Cape.

Van der Linder says Zille will be welcoming the cyclists to Cape Town and will join them on the last leg of a thousand kilometre bicycle tour that started on April 26th in Hamburg, in the Eastern Cape, and ends at the Groote Schuur Hospital.

“The tour is an initiative of the Keiskamma AIDS Treatment Programme and the Kidzpositive Family Fund,” Van der Linde said.

Zille will ride down from 14 Bridge Street, Mowbray, turn left and ride along Liesbeeck Parkway, cross below the N2 bridge and turn left up Station Road and head up to Groote Schuur Hospital.