Pretoria advocate runs Comrades while reading a book
A Pretoria advocate has found a cause close to his heart and is running with it – literally.
Advocate Marukgwane Moremogolo caught people’s attention when he was spotted reading while running the 2019 Comrades Marathon up run at the weekend.
His reason: promoting literacy among South Africans.
The 39-year-old says he decided to run for a cause in 2016 after coming across a shocking report. “I had read a weekend newspaper [article] that highlighted the dropping levels of literacy in South Africa,” he tells YOU.
So, when he heard about people running the marathon for a cause, collecting books as his cause made sense to him. “I’ve always been an activist at heart.
“I read for fun and I enjoy books, so I thought as a response to the dropping levels of literacy in our country, I’d run for books,” he continues.
He says he capitalised on the fact that people who do funny things while running the marathon tend to get the right attention.
“I thought that if I run with a book it will be funny enough for me to put the message across.”
His approach worked.
The FunDza Literacy Trust in Cape Town donated a book for every kilometre he’d run and delivered all 88 of them before he even participated in the marathon, he tells us.
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