– Revd Gwen Lungisa Mvula. Our spiritual mother.
– Pick n Pay Grahamstown. John Campbell provided food. Wonderful to break bread together in the church.
– Makana Brick SA. Colin Meyer and Lunga. Gloves, black bags and taking away glass bottles.
The community of Grahamstown coming together. Hard work, meaning and fellowship.
– The girls of VG and DSG. Focussed together on plastic bottles and tops! Sarah Hanton and Sue Paton.
– Siya and SAC/DSG for tractor trailer. Loads of rubbish removed to dump.
– Marius Lombard (SkipGo) and an anonymous sponsor.
– Cindy Deutschmann and Makana Revive.
– Given Faxa and his Oatlands Park team. Litter-free surrounds of church freshly cut.
And the many volunteers. All of you Saints. Team “A Better St Philips”. Talented and positive group!
And now the real challenge. Keeping it clean forever. Beautifying it for us, for our children and their children. A spiritual, cultural and historical site that local and international visitors will relish. A place the local community can draw pride and inspiration from. An example to others of what can be achieved by diverse communities coming together for mutual benefit.
Thank you all. Anyone interested in being part of this project – many ways to be involved – please contact me.
Happy Sunday.
Graeme
Victoria Girls’ High School
The Diocesan School for Girls – Senior School
St Andrew’s College
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.