WATCH: Beast gets down to knitting knockers
Beast has purchased R5 000 worth of Knitted Knockers kits to hand out to his team mates and celebrities who he hopes will get involved.
WHEN one thinks of Tendai ‘Beast’ Mtawarira, one thinks of a powerful rugby player who strikes fear into the hearts of his opponents.
However, Beast is now showing his softer side, by picking up knitting needles and learning to knit for a good cause, and is challenging his team mates to join him.
Beast heard about CANSA’s Knitted Knockers campaign through his wife, Kuziva, who has been a CANSA volunteer for the past two years.
Knitters buy a kit for R60 where they create hand knitted breast prostheses for women who have undergone mastectomies or similar breast procedures.
“This is especially important to highlight in October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month.”
“My wife runs a foundation called My Sister’s Keepers which helps women and school girls in different ways, and I decided to look and see where I could help women as well. The Knitted Knockers campaign is such a good cause and I am happy to endorse it,” he said.
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Beast said it was good to make people aware of the project and that it was important for men to get behind the campaign.
“We need our women and I think it is important to create awareness of what women go through when they lose their breasts. I am getting ready to knit some knockers and am challenging some of my team mates as well as Sky Tshabalala and Darren Maule from East Coast Radio!” he said.
Beast has purchased R5 000 worth of Knitted Knockers kits to hand out to his team mates and celebrities who he hopes will get involved.
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Cara Noble, National Relationships Manager for Service Delivery at CANSA, said: “Beast has been a friend of CANSA for a long time so we are grateful to have a celebrity on board who cares,” she said.
Women can book appointments for free pap smears and breast exams at CANSA Durban offices in Umbilo Road on 1, 2 and 3 November. Contact 031 205 9525.
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