Big thank you to Steven van der Merve (Hyundai Grahamstown) and Peter Heynes (PK Welding) for supplying and installing the new bins at Oatlands Park. Free advertising for Total until one or more volunteers in the Creative City mould can decorate them in the New Year.
Also thanks to Ross Marriner (PSG Wealth) for his support from the outset and generous financial contribution to the costs of the Oatlands Park clean-up.
Welcome to new team member Patrick Hale (introduced to me by Ross) who is cleaning the park of litter and surrounding streets through the Christmas period. Patrick is there Tuesdays and Thursdays so if you encounter stray litter on other days please take a moment to deposit it in the new bins – or better still remove it directly.
Happy holidays to all – including Oatlands Park donkeys and cattle.
GRAEME HOLMES
Before moving back to Grahamstown in Oct 2017, Graeme was a bank executive based in the big smoke and craziness of Joburg. He has 20 years’ experience in the Payments Industry. He is a Chartered Accountant, has a Masters in Management by Research (MMR) from Wits Business School, and attended an Advanced Management Programme (AMP) offered by INSEAD (The Business School for the World!) in France.
Graeme is the founder of The Grahamstown Project. It’s simple. He says, “Grahamstown is a microcosm of South Africa. If we can’t get this place to function properly then the whole country is stuffed. Many of the troubles we experience as a country today have their roots here in Grahamstown. it is here where black and white people first engaged in conflict on the African continent. It is here where 9 wars of dispossession over 100 years took place and virtually destroyed the amaXhosa nation. But we are where we are. I don’t have a British passport and the boat-trip back to where my ancestors came from is exorbitantly expensive. Furthermore, this is my home. I am a son of Africa. We must work together to redress the injustices of the past and move as one into a brighter future.”
Graeme is an avid historian, writer, vlogger and public speaker. Like and follow the Facebook page. Join him on a tour. Contact him. He would love that.