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Gun Free South Africa - Press Alert
July 15, 2002

Stop Guns Becoming This Freely Available In South Africa

"Stop guns becoming this freely available in South Africa" will be the plea of ‘gun’ selling vendors on 18 July 2002.

Burdened with toy guns and standing on selected street corners in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town in rush hour traffic, the vendors will graphically highlight just how freely available real guns are in South Africa.

They also symbolise the many people that are killed each day because guns are so freely available in this country - with more people shot and killed each day than die in car accidents.

The street vendor campaign is being held in support of the South African Police Service destruction scheduled for later that day in which 24 000 small arms will be destroyed.

Says Sheena Duncan, the Chairperson of Gun Free South Africa, - the SAPS destruction scheduled for Thursday, 18 July is a public display of our governments’ commitment to reducing and combating the proliferation of firearms across the globe. It tells the world, that we in South Africa are committed to making guns less available and so reduce the number of people who die."

Details of Street Vendor Demonstrations:

Date: Thursday, 18 July 2002

Johannesburg 7h30 - 9h00am

1. Corner Rifle Range and Columbine Drives, Mondeor

2. Grayston Road off ramp from M1

Pretoria 7h30 - 9h00am

1. Corner Nelson Mandela and Schoemann Drives

Cape Town 13h00 - 14h00

1. Adderley Street, centre town

Released by Claire Taylor, Communications Co-ordinator Gun Free South Africa: 15 July 2002