Stepping in to save the graves
Volunteers join parks workers in restoring historical cemeteries in Pretoria and Joburg, the ‘history books’ of South Africa
21 November 2024 - 05:00
Cemeteries in Joburg and Pretoria — some of them vandalised and robbed — have been given new life in a collaboration between volunteers and local officialdom.
Desecration and neglect led to these burial grounds falling into decay, especially at Joburg’s Braamfontein cemetery, the city’s oldest, where jewellery and other valuables were stolen from caskets and from behind plaques...
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