Thanks to teachers and pupils of College / DSG who are painting the Bins. Undercoat applied, now excited to see their artistic exploits.
Mr Given Faxa has assumed control of day to day clean up. Park – particularly with welcome rains last week – and surrounding streets looking fab. Local residents and businesses welcome to contact Given (0643026699) for specific work. Either as part of the normal suburb clean-up or bespoke paid-for job. They have vehicle, brush-cutters etc.
Two Park regulars, Crosby & Vuyo, play their part too. Eyes and ears on the ground with occasional litter sweep. Crosby has started a micro-enterprise. The humble beginnings of a plastic bottle recycling operation!
Finally a big thank you again to Makana Revive! for funding this pilot project. If you not already doing so please make financial contribution (every Rand counts) to MR! The sustainability of this project depends on growth in contributions.
Happy Friday to all, wherever in the world you may be. I’m off to the Kingswood / DSG derby-day hockey!
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.