The 8th annual pickled fish run by the Ottery Boys MCC Bikers Club will be done a bit differently this year due to the current nationwide lockdown to fight the Coronavirus.
Every year on Good Friday, over 120 bikers dig deep into their pockets to provide hot cross buns, cool drinks, Easter eggs and a lekker400-litre pot of pickled fish to residents of informal settlements and old aged homes across the Cape Flats.
However, this year, due to the lockdown prohibiting citizens from going out of their homes unless it’s for essential matters, they will be donating the goods to a Lotus River Bishop who will in turn be distributing the goods to selected communities.
Community activist Keith Blake, who is the father of the founder of the bike club, says he will stay true to his word.
“Years ago I made a promise. I promised that neither my family nor I will eat pickled fish until the poor have eaten from my hands at Easter.
“I will be staying true to my word. I cannot just leave it.
“I currently have a barrel of pickled fish my wife and I made that can feed about 400 people which will be donated to Bishop Paul Phillips from Lotus River, who will be donating it to an old age home and many other people,” Blake explains.
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“We have to adhere to the President’s order for lockdown and social distancing.
“My family and I will be waiting to get that WhatsApp message from Bishop Phillips to say all the pickled fish have been given to those in need before we eat anything.
Daily Voice could not reach the Bishop on Wednesday.
robin,francke@inl.co.za