Expect the streets to be packed as residents and visitors come together for another Boeka in the Bo-Kaap.
The Bo-Kaap Collective will host another boeka evening in Wale and Rose streets on Friday April 5 which coincides with Al-Quds day.
Close to 2000 people attended the last Iftar dinner on Saturday March 23.
Shafwaan Laubscher, a member of the Bo-Kaap Collective, said the City assisted with traffic and water services and they are looking forward to another good turnout.
“To put it in perspective, we had six 100-litre pots of chicken akni and that wasnt enough. Each pot could fill 200 punnets so that’s about how many people ate of this food, we also had 180 litres of soup and before the end of the night it was all done,” said Mr Laubscher.
Dr Wagheda Cassiem of the Qibla Movement says they intend to march to parliament on Friday and then join the residents of Bo-Kaap for the boeka evening.
She said the Day of Quds is the international day of solidarity with and in support of the oppressed people throughout the world.
“This year the answer to the call for solidarity must and is intensified because of the genocidal, most brutal and calculated murdering of the Palestinian people, their unborn, babies, children, women, elderly and their sick, the destruction of their schools, hospitals, churches, mosques, homes, vital infrastructure, and so forth. As South Africans, as Africans, we must commit to uprooting injustice and oppression where ever it has taken root,” she said.
The road closures for the boeka event, from 5pm, will be at Wale Street (between Buitengracht and Pentz/Yusuf Drive) and Rose Street (to Helliger Lane), according to the City.