The Friends have completed their restoration of the ash walls at Braamfontein cemetery. After a gruelling 19 months of hard work by all of you and our builders, we hand the area back to City Parks. This was celebrated yesterday at an onsite event arranged by Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo, to show members of the media what has been accomplished and to acknowledge the role played by the Friends and City Parks.
My heartfelt thanks go to all of you as you supported us with donations and encouragement; the Friends as they worked tirelessly to make it all happen; the builders July, Abram and Daniel who did a superb job of repairing and restoring the walls and to Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo for their supply of materials needed to repair the walls plus their installation of solar lights to make the area around the crematorium less attractive at night to vandals. To all of you, thank you. We couldn't have done this without you; and we ask you to continue following us as we move on to other projects. Especial thanks go to Liz Haines, Antoinette Morgan and Nici Noble who stuck by me til the end, checking walls, conducting tours of the walls and preparing a speech for the event and giving me their support, advice and suggestions. Without you, I wouldn't have got through. I salute you.
Now I can go back to my first love - researching and writing sketches on the people buried in our cemeteries! Watch this space..
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