Safe space bench unveiled on Table Mountain

"I FEEL like a celebrity," said Tharwah Thomas from Manenberg who helped design and create a mosaic 'safe space' bench which was unveiled on Monday outside Table Mountain Ariel Cableway's lower station.

- TAMLYNNE THOMPSON

The bench, a project by NGO Brave Rock Girl and funded by the Table Mountain Fund, the Rockefeller Foundation and one of Brave Rock Girl's founding board members, India Baird, was unveiled in celebration of International Women's Month.

The colourful mosaic bench, which features red disas found on Table Mountain in summer, along with a leopard to highlight the importance of conservation, was designed and created by women as part of a project by BRAVE Rock Girl calling Daring Disas.

The project introduces young women to the beauty and wonder of the Cape's flora, and trains them to be conservationists and environmentalists. The message on the bench reads "Building strength and resilience through nature".