Lovell Friedman, a renowned mosaic artist from Gardens, trained the girls and helped them create the bench. She said she had been working with the young women and training them since 2011, when the first safe space bench was installed at Red River Primary School in Manenberg.

The bench unveiled on Monday was the 66th bench by BRAVE Rock Girl.

Ms Friedman said mosaic art is a labour of love - you have to put all the broken pieces together. It's a lot of hard work and resilience, so it's always rewarding. With this bench, we did two workshops where the women learned to cut and put the pieces of tiles together - putting all these pieces together to create something new.

"We hope this bench will create awareness and beauty and a safe space.

"To create something beautiful always draws people in and this one also creates awareness of environmental issues."

She said about six girls worked on the bench for about two months every day. "It takes a lot of patience - it's community work."

The bench also serves as a sister bench to the other two located on Lion's Head and Signal Hill. The messages on these benches are "You strike a woman, you strike a mountain", and "Your respect is my strength", respectively.

Park manager at Table Mountain National Park, Megan Taplin, said they were happy to receive the bench made by the BRAVE Rock Girl Daring Disas women. This bench is to remind us that nature is a safe space for all of us and where everyone can enjoy our natural and cultural heritage, and also just gives people a place to rest, to look up at the mountain and enjoy the view.

"This is our mountain. People come from all over but we need to experience it and benefit from our national parks so we hope the Daring Disas girls will come do lots of hikes here and feel safe."

She said they love working with projects that assist women. "We are very strong with women in conservation. I've been working in parks for 21 years and when I was younger I was told this is a man's world, but I worked my way up and now I feel like I can make a difference in conservation and in people's lives.

"I want to give them a message of hope that they can be whoever they want to be."

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