Verskeie grafte wat van so lank terug as die 1970\u2019s dateer, is gevandaliseer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die begraafplaas het boonop geen omheining nie, met die gevolg dat huishoudelike rommel hier gestort word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Willem Smith, \u2019n bejaarde inwoner van Bloekomlaan reg oorkant die begraafplaas, het aan Paarl Post<\/em> ges\u00ea dit is \u201conaanvaarbaar\u201d dat hul geliefdes in sulke omstandighede moet rus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMy pa is ook daar begrawe. Die plan was aanvanklik dat ek naby hom begrawe word wanneer ek sterf, maar nou kan ek nie eens meer sy graf identifiseer nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Smith het na gras in die begraafplaas beduie wat bykans twee meter hoog groei. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hy s\u00ea sy pa se graf en vele ander is weens die ho\u00eb gras glad nie meer sigbaar nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEk vermoed die gras groei so hoog en vinnig weens die riool wat nou al baie lank daar lek. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDaar was glo destyds \u2019n openbare toilet, maar die rioolpyp is van daai tyd af nooit behoorlik toegemaak nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Die riool het Maandag uit die begraafplaas tot in die straat geloop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n Volgens Smith is daar veral op warm dae \u2019n stank wat weens die riool in die lug hang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hy s\u00ea die begraafplaas het destyds \u2019n behoorlike omheining gehad, maar dit is intussen ook gevandaliseer en gesteel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paarl Post<\/em> het intussen \u2019n skrywe van een van die plaaslike leiers bekom, waarin sy die stand van die begraafplaas met die munisipaliteit opper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDit is hartseer as ek daar verbystap en nie eens my ouers se grafte kan sien nie. Kan daar asseblief drasties iets gedoen word? <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAan die bokant lyk dit nie erg soos onder nie. My hart raak seer as ek so teen die gras vaskyk,\u201d lui die versoek deur die plaaslike leier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gerald Esau, die uitvoerende direkteur van gemeenskapsdienste by die munisipaliteit, het by navraag aan Paarl Post <\/em>ges\u00ea die betrokke begraafplaas is in Desember opgeknap en die volgende opknapping word vir Maart vanjaar beplan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hy s\u00ea die munisipaliteit het die omheining al twee keer \u201cweens diefstal\u201d vervang. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDie heining word juis opgerig om vandalisering van grafte en onwettige storting te voorkom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDie munisipaliteit sal die behoefte ondersoek om die begraafplaas weer te omhein, maar dit gaan wel samewerking met die polisie, buurtwag en kerke vereis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOns moet hierdie fasiliteite in die belang van die gemeenskap beskerm.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Volgens Esau is die munisipaliteit nie bewus van die gerapporteerde riool- lekkasie nie en s\u00ea spanne sal uitgestuur word om dit te 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