Tokai commemorative walk

HONOUR FRANZISKA’S LIFE - WHY SAFE PUBLIC SPACES MATTER

- NAMHLA MONAKALI

Residents gathered in Lower Tokai on Saturday 7 March to mark 10 years since the murder of 16-year-old Franziska Blöchliger, who was found raped and killed in the fynbos near the edge of the plantation in 2016.

The commemorative walk began at 09:00 at the Ribbon Gate, where participants received ribbons before walking to the murder site.

The group then walked the perimeter of Lower Tokai before returning through the forest.

The event was organised by Parkscape, a voluntary advocacy nonprofit organisation (NPO), ensuring safety, and protecting the urban forest, cultural landscapes and biodiversity in the buffer zones and wildland-urban interfaces and supported by community partners.