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Oct-Nov 2025

• What is Blocktober?
• What is Saartjie Baartman Centre?
• Who was Saartjie Baartman?
• What is Steps for Saartjie (s4s)? Start here
• Information about our daily walks in October
• Please donate
• Fundraising barometer
• Join us on Strava

Blogs

• January 2026: Looking with new eyes – You can manage tough times – Bridget Pitt
• 20 November: Reflections of gratitude – The Richness of Rhythm – Review of Blocktober 2025
• 12 November 2025: Daily Maverick Shared Humanity Op-Ed — Blocktober: Walking the talk on Devil’s Peak —  By Rosalie Kingwill
• 31 October 2025: For the road ahead – It’s not over – Lala Steyn
• 30 October 2025: Why every day? Walking with purpose – Rosalie Kingwill
• 29 October 2025: From empire to empathy – Walking the path of healing – Marthe Muller
• 28 October 2025: Not much longer – Hiking and the journey of life – First time hiker and survivor of GBV, from the Saartjie Baartman Centre 
• 27 October 2025: Who was Saartjie Baartman? The violence is in the viewing – Jo-Anne Duggan
• 26 October 2025: Today belongs to the children – Lala Steyn
• 25 October 2025: Have you been active this October? Not just steps: 12 000 kms of walks, runs, rides and swims, taking 1 600 hours – Dawie Bosch
• 24 October 2025: Vredehoek Quarry: Walking without fear – Janet Purcell
• 23 October 2025: Sometimes, you just can't ... It's Out of Your Control – Nancy Richards
• 22 October 2025: Rage walking – Walking for wellness – Sedica Davids
• 21 October 2025: 307 walking ascents video – Over 2 300 km walked with 307 walking ascents to Blockhouse – Lala Steyn
• 20 October 2025: With Women Worldwide – How little do we know about our fellow passengers in life – Nancy Richards
• 19 October 2025: Meaningful conversations – and the need to step-up on donations – Lala Steyn
• 18 October 2025: Fun and fitness for Saartjie Baartman with CHIPs (incl breast cancer awareness) – Lala Steyn
• 17 October 2025: Fresh start entrepreneurs – Lala Steyn

• 16 October 2025: Fynbos path to the Blockhouse – Janet Purcell
• 15 October 2025: Kindness begets kindness: Blocktober champion Dixon Windross – Rosalie Kingwill
• 14 October 2025: It's personal – Lala Steyn
• 13 October 2025: Together we walk, Together we fight: Join us for the breast cancer and GBV solidarity hike on 18th October – Ruben Coetzee, Sports Science Institute, CHIPS Coordinator
• 12 October 2025: Your Body. Your Story. Your Power – Kim Simpson, Marie Stopes South Africa
• 11 October 2025: One donation, one step, one share. Let’s make October count – Dawie Bosch
• 10 October 2025: Small Actions, Big Connections – Janet Purcell
• 09 October 2025: Think globally and act locally against GBV – Micheline Tusenius
• 08 October 2025: A Kenyan cyclist’s journey with Blocktober – Sam Nagiri
• 07 October 2025: We need to Act: Cape Talk interviews – Lala Steyn
• 06 October 2025: Changing minds on the mountain: Trees, fynbos and the King’s Blockhouse – Dawie Bosch
• 05 October 2025: Sunday solidarity walk with Saartjie Baartman – Lala Steyn
• 04 October 2025: Why the Blockhouse? From our colonial past to solidarity with survivors of GBV – Lala Steyn
• 03 October 2025: The miracle of another door opening – Jean du Plessis
• 02 October 2025: Conscious living – Lala Steyn
• 01 October 2025: Building solidarity – Global Action against Gender-Based Violence – Ros Thomas
• 30 September 2025: Shout out to Jordan Smit, Bella Italia Vredehoek for sponsoring pizzas and coffee for Blocktober walkers – Lala Steyn
• 30 September 2025: Preparing for my first steps – Walk the Talk in solidarity with survivors of gender based violence (GBV) – Lala Steyn

Early articles

• 1 Nov 2020: Mental Block – How Blocktober went from a pun to a push to end GBV – Jonathan Ancer