A WALK AROUND AFRICA TO END ABUSE

MBABANE – A man is on a mission to walk around Africa in a quest to end women abuse.

Thato Molosankwe (40) is a humanitarian activist who arrived in Eswatini yesterday, to engage emaSwati men to change their mindsets towards women and inspire responsibility to protect them. Molosankwe has done this through the Rounding Africa Walk.

He aims to embark on a solo walk around 49 African countries. He said so far, he has been to Lesotho, South Africa and currently he is in the kingdom. He has covered 42 177 kilometres in the three countries he has been to.

reminding

Molosankwe said his aim was to address women abuse and social ills, by reminding people about their moral ground. He said he planned to visit Mozambique after his campaign in the Eswatini. The humanitarian travels within Africa using his own resources. He has done this by opening a platform for dialogue within African countries. The South Africa-based humanitarian is the founding member of Thato Molosankwe Charity Organisation, which aims to restore morality and humanity to address the social ills, by reminding people about their moral grounds.

Molosankwe said his organisation raised awareness through walks because this was a different approach than the normal campaigns that had been used to address people for a stipulated time frame. This, he said, was not efficient as there were still statistics of increasing numbers of atrocities in Africa.

dream

He said he had three children, two girls and one boy. The former fitness instructor said he had a dream to raise his children in a positive environment where both sexes respected and treated each other equally. Currently, the humanitarian is organising a dialogue which will take place in Mbabane through churches, tribal authorities and the police service.

So far, he said he was grateful for the warmth and support from emaSwati, who welcomed him with open arms at the Mahamba Border Post.
“The police received me very well and prepared a place for me to sleep,” said Molosankwe. 

He said his aim was to organise a dialogue with emaSwati men, where he could engage them in identifying the issues encountered by the communities. Moreover, he mentioned that he hoped to find solutions to address the issues, to restore the impediments that cause men to perpetrate abuse.

morality

“The cause for the social ills is lack of morality and humanity, and as an organisation, we find ways to restore it,” he said.
Molosankwe mentioned that he walks 30 to 40 kilometres a day. He said oftentimes, he slept at police stations. He carries all his basic stuff like toiletries and food for the road. At times, the humanitarian would pitch his tent and camp overnight. He would sleep two nights near the road.

Molosankwe said women have admired and shown great appreciation for his course because they were mostly the victims. However, he said men also fell prey to abuse and that was why he involved them.

He reiterated that men were participating in the project and over 1 000 had joined in the previous walks. He said he wished to target more men in his #Uniting African Men Against Women Abuse walk.
 

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