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The Lighthouse to Lighthouse run is in Lusikisiki in the Transkei on Friday.
Four women long distrance athletes, who have been affected in one way or the other by abuse, are running 42km a day over 42 days, touching 42 lighthouses from Umhlanga Rocks to Paternoster to raise awarness about the abuse of women and children.
Retha Schutte, Lindsay van Aswegen, Machelle Bremmer and the Russian Lena Faber will be in East London next Wednesday and in Port Elizabeth on the 3rd of December.
Herman Schutte, who's wife Retha started the initiative after growing up in an abusive home, says the lighthouse metaphor was chosen because "lighthouses protect ships in the darkness from things that lay below the surface,"
".. and we know abuse generally happens below the surface. So, four ladies got together and they're running from lighthouse to lighthouse, all around South Africa just creating awarness about women and child abuse," he added.
The four women began their epic run in Umhlanga Rocks on the 17th and aim to finish at Paternoster on the Cape West Coast on the 29th of December.
