Drive to spruce up graves

RESIDENTS: TAKE UP INITIATIVE >>> Clean-up project after footage of sorry state of Pretoria cemetery.

- Marizka Coetzer

Graveyards in Pretoria East resemble forgotten sites replete with scattered litter, long grass and broken tombstones.

Now residents are starting a community cemetery cleanup project after shocking footage of the sad state of the graveyard on Matt Street was in the spotlight again earlier this year.

Pretoria East resident Dana Ashoori, one of the organisers of the cleanup, said she had friends and loved ones buried in the cemetery and that was what motivated the initiative.

Ashoori said each time she visited the cemetery she noticed the overgrown grass, weeds, litter and serious safety concerns.