Terwyl veiligheidsgroepe soos AfriForum en VR Security \u2019n ogie gehou het oor die veiligheid van die groep betrokkenes, kon mense Saterdag (15\/04) grafte van hul geliefdes in die Memorium-begraafplaas skoon en netjies maak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Een van die mense wat sy ouers se grafte kom skoonmaak het, is Jimmy van der Westhuizen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy s\u00ea hy kom maak so af en toe die grafte skoon, maar dit is baie lekker dat daar \u2019n groep was wat die algemene netheid van die begraafplaas kom verbeter het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die projek, onder leiding van DA-wyksraadslid Dirk Kotz\u00e9, in wie se wyk di\u00e9 groot begraafplaas val, is al sedert Februarie beplan en is deur verskeie woonbuurt\u00adverenigings en ander organisasies ondersteun. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mense het van 08:00 af met hul randjiesnyers, harke en grawe ingevaar en die gedeelte van die Memorium-begraafplaas om die krematorium, en dieper in na die ouer grafte, opgeruim. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Schalk van Vuuren van die Universitas-woonbuurtvereniging het met \u2019n John Deere-grassnyer werk verrig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hope vullis is in swartsakke gegooi om weggery te word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vrywilligers het ook iemand se beursie met bankkaarte tydens die opruiming in die begraafplaas opgetel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lede van onder meer die Gardeniapark-Wilgehof-, Universitas- woonbuurtvereniging; lede van die Ou Presidensie- Historiese Vereniging; asook DA-raadslede en talle individue het hul Saterdag-oggend opgeoffer om aan die projek deel te neem en die begraafplaas sodoende toegankliker te maak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tinkie en Johan Benson, inwoners van Genl. de Wet, het ook harke gebring en kom help met die harde werk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit maak ons ongemaklik dat di\u00e9 begraafplaas so oorgroei is,\u201d het Johan ges\u00ea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit was vir ons \u2019n lekker geleentheid om te kom deelneem aan die projek.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kotz\u00e9 s\u00ea hy hoop Saterdag se opruiming was die begin van \u2019n lang proses om di\u00e9 begraafplaas weer netjies te kry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy vertel hoe die burgemeester van Mosselbaai begin het met \u2019n projek om die plaaslike begraafplaas netjies te maak, en hoe dit die betrokkenes sewe jaar geneem het om die begraafplaas weer op peil te kry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOm Bloemfontein se begraaf\u00adplase netjies te maak gaan \u2019n lang proses wees,\u201d s\u00ea Kotz\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Christo Groenewald, gemeenskapsko\u00f6rdineerder van AfriForum, s\u00ea dit was vir hulle \u2019n plesier om betrokke te wees. Hy en sy gesin het ook familiegrafte skoongemaak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk hoop dit kan \u2019n gereelde projek wees,\u201d meen Groenewald. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit sal goed wees as meer mense betrokke kan raak, en ons so een keer \u2019n maand veiligheid kan verskaf en mense kan help om die begraafplaas en hul geliefdes se grafte skoon te maak.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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