The Ottery Boyz MCC held their 7th annual pickled fish run on Good Friday to spread some joy around Cape Town.
Over 120 bikers dug deep into their pockets and donated bread, hot cross buns, cool drinks, Easter eggs and a lekker 400 litre pot of pickled fish to mense in Freedom Park, Kampies and Williston Park informal settlements, as well as an old age home in Lotus River and the Jabulani feeding scheme in Parkwood.
Ottery community activist, Keith Blake, thanked everyone who contributed to the day: “It was overwhelming as bikers from various clubs joined to be part of the convoy. They donated, made and served the goods themselves.”
He says the initiative started seven years ago.
“Youngsters from Freedom Park came knocking at my door for food on that Good Friday. We only had the onions left of the pickled fish and I refused to give them that.
“I vowed to my wife that I will never eat pickled fish again until the poor have first eaten it for as long as I live,” Blake says.
He says they received so many donations that they even had Easter eggs left over.
“Wherever we went young and old got Easter eggs. It is so amazing because every year we’re getting bigger and bigger and more people can be blessed with receiving.”
The leftover Easter eggs were handed out at Wetton Circle on Monday to unemployed mense waiting on the pavement hoping to find work.