AfriForum undertakes cemetery clean-up
As part of the organisation’s 10 Dae van Selfstandigheid (10 days of self-sufficiency), a team from the Newcastle branch cleaned and neatened up the cemetery.
The Hardwick Street cemetery has received critical attention from AfriForum.
As part of the organisation’s 10 Dae van Selfstandigheid (10 days of self-sufficiency), a team from the Newcastle branch cleaned and neatened up the cemetery.
Now the onus falls to Newcastle Municipality to maintain the status quo.
“It is important to us that our loved ones have a clean and safe kerkhof. Seven of us, plus the contractor, spruced up the grounds,” explained David Cloete, committee member of AfriForum Newcastle.
He added the project cost R12 500, paid for by the community.
On a national level, 10 Dae van Selfstandigheid will see numerous other initiatives take place, over 10 days, including repairs to potholes and street lights, cleaning of dump sites, cemeteries and streets, and rehabilitation of polluted rivers.
This follows a mass indaba between 52 AfriForum neighbourhood watches, 29 autonomous groups, 29 community policing forums, six community organisations and 11 safety companies last weekend.
Assistant coordinator for AfriForum in KwaZulu-Natal, Lambert de Klerk said action was necessary, in light of a failure of governance to honour responsibilities.
Initiatives all lead up to October 10.
On this date, the Solidarity Movement hosts its Toekomsberaad (Future Convention) in Pretoria, where various plans will be revealed, in light of resolutions taken by organisations country-wide.
These, it was said, will help insure Afrikaners live in a future of safety, freedom and prosperity.
