Youth Day Swim, part of the Freedom Swim Series, will be held at Camps Bay in Cape Town, South Africa on June 16th.
The event has 2 distances: 1 or 2 mile races with the funds going to the SEAL Open Water Swimming Development Trust whose trustees include include Ram Barkai, Theodore Yach, Andrew Chin, Annette Cowley and four-time Olympian Ryk Neethling.
Youth Day commemorates the uprising against Bantu Education in the mid-1970s. The Youth Day Swim raises funds for the education of disadvantaged youths.
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