{"id":49612,"date":"2022-01-27T12:06:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T10:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/kougaexpress\/volunteers-municipality-clean-up-local-cemetery-20220126\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T17:05:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T15:05:27","slug":"volunteers-municipality-clean-up-local-cemetery-20220126","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/kougaexpress\/volunteers-municipality-clean-up-local-cemetery-20220126\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers, municipality clean up local cemetery in JBay"},"content":{"rendered":"

With help from the Kouga Local Municipality, the Jeffreys Bay Dorp van Drome organisation, which aims at cleaning and beautifying the town, has yet again embarked on a great project to clean-up BB Keet Street Cemetery in Jeffreys Bay, a neglected cemetery which desperately needed cleaning. <\/p>\n

James Vosloo, who together with his wife, Loulita, joined Dorp van Drome in November last year, said volunteers from the organisation identified the cemetery as a project they wanted to work on.<\/p>\n

They then proceeded to consult with Kouga Waste and environmental management manager, Christa Venter, to share their ideas and confirm their involvement. <\/p>\n

\u201cLoulita and I wanted to involve ourselves in a community project and make ourselves available to make a difference in the town of Jeffreys Bay, a town we grew up in, love and know so well,\u201d said Vosloo.<\/p>\n

He said the BB Keet Street Cemetery was in a neglected state when they first embarked on their clean-up project on December 16, 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe noticed that the cemetery had overgrown trees; the graves were full of weeds and the grass was long, which continued to get worse over the years. We therefore identified the cemetery as a project we wanted to focus on,\u201d said Vosloo.<\/p>\n

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The Jeffreys Bay Dorp van Drome organisation, together with the Kouga Local Municipality, has been hard at work cleaning up the BB Keet Street Cemetery in Jeffreys Bay.<\/div>\n
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Since both Vosloo and his wife were born and raised in Jeffreys Bay, their parents, family members and friends were buried at the cemetery.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people buried at the cemetery were all inhabitants who contributed in some or other way to the development of the town, from being a fisherman\u2019s village to the town it has become,\u201d said Vosloo.<\/p>\n

As part of the clean-up project, the team removed the rubble and pruned and cleared the overgrowth of weeds from the graves and removed the self-germinated trees on some of the older graves, which had caused considerable damage.<\/p>\n

Vosloo said the municipality assisted greatly with the project by mowing the lawns and supplying the transportation to remove the piles of rubble.<\/p>\n

He said they were currently still working on completing their project, with a team from the organisation cleaning up every Tuesday.<\/p>\n

However, Vosloo said he hoped to get involved in projects to clean up other cemeteries in Jeffreys Bay, once they were done at BB Keet Street Cemetery. <\/p>\n

He said that now that most of the rubble had been removed, they were looking at the possibility of creating a new garden with new plants of trees and shrubs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are planning on beautifying the area in and around the cemetery and placing benches at various locations,\u201d said Vosloo.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe urge other community members to join in various projects within the bigger Kouga area. <\/p>\n

\u201cOnly by taking ownership and joining hands will we be able to progress and make a difference.\u201d <\/p>\n

Venter said cemeteries were a focal point for the Kouga Municipality this year and they plan to have a gardening team at the BB Keet Street Cemetery once a week to maintain the area.<\/p>\n

In addition, she said the municipality planned to upgrade the ablution facility at the cemetery and they planned to plant more suitable trees, as well as update all registers.<\/p>\n

She said that vandalism at cemeteries was, unfortunately, one of the problems the municipality was faced with.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople don\u2019t respect the importance of cemeteries for loved ones coming to visit and it is an ongoing problem, not only at cemeteries, but all council properties,\u201d said Venter.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe municipality plans to clean cemeteries throughout the Kouga region, namely, Humansdorp, Patensie, Hankey and the closed sites in Pellsrus.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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