City authorises establishment of Heroes Acre cemetery for struggle heroes
Authority was granted to the Head of Parks, Recreation and Culture Unit, Thembinkosi Ngcobo, to establish a Heroes Acre Open Air Museum at Heroes Acre Cemetery for the reburial of identified UDF struggle heroes in partnership with the NPA Missing Persons Task Team.
ETHEKWINI has agreed to fund the reburial of UDF struggle heroes to a Heroes Acre Open Air Museum to be created in the city.
A report which focused on the creation of an Heroes Acre Open Air Museum and the reburial of UDF stalwarts who were hung in Pretoria in the 1960s and those buried at Red Hill, came before council for discussion last week.
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Authority was granted to the Head of Parks, Recreation and Culture Unit, Thembinkosi Ngcobo, to establish a Heroes Acre Open Air Museum at Heroes Acre Cemetery for the reburial of identified UDF struggle heroes in partnership with the NPA Missing Persons Task Team.
Ngcobo will also be tasked with commissioning a study on the feasibility of the Open Air Museum and to initiate the creation of an Open Museum website that will contain information on all stalwarts from other cemeteries within Durban.
He will also commission a mapping study and record all stalwarts from different cemeteries in Durban including family cemeteries.
The report stated that R800 000 would be given towards the reburial of UDF stalwarts, the commissioning of a feasibility study, the creation of the website and the mapping of all heroes buried in Durban cemeteries.
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