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No Peace Found at Cemetery Melissa Hart CORONA Preventions: +H[QWCTGOKNFN[UKEMMGGR [QWTUGNHJ[FTCVGFCPFUVC[ CVJQOGCPFTGUV+H[QWCTG EQPEGTPGFCDQWV[QWTU[ORVQOU ECNNVJGJQVNKPGQP Friday, July 17, 2020 Clinics closed SPCA CSA for extended funds at announces periods cause breaking top-flight concern point award NEWS SPORT winners 34 8 COMMUNITY No peace found at cemetery Melissa Hart The situation at the Primrosee Cemetery is going from bad to worse and if it continues therere mamayy not be much left. The GCN recently met Basilsil Kletz, chairperson of the committeemmittee managing the Jewish cemeteryry and assets at the Primrose Cemetery,tery, and Ward 36 Clr Wendy Morganrgan to see what damage had been caused.aused. Apart from the poor state of the cemetery grounds, thieves haveave now started to systematicallyy steal the palisade fence surroundingng the Jewish section of the cemetery.ry. The palisade is cut neatly with an angle grinder and carried awayay by the thieves. During the visit, the GCN also noted that at the bathrooms, halhalff the security gate of the men’ss bathroom had been cut off andnd copper piping had been stolen.n. There was also a tap on thee premises which was running continuously and couldn’t be turned off . The exit gate to the cemetery was stolen in December last year and has still not been replaced, which means anyone can gain access to the cemetery day and night. “There is once again no respect showed for the dead,”” Morgan said. Kletz is extremely upset aboutbout the palisade fence being stolenen around the Jewish section. “My concern above all elsee is the desecration of tombstones, gravesraves and ashes - thus the fi nal restingting place of loved ones. “It doesn’t get any more Basil Kletz, chairperson of the committee managing the Jewish cemetery and assets at the Primrose Cemetery, and Ward 36 Clr Wendy Morgan show disgraceful than that,” he said. one of the areas where the palisade fencing around the Jewish section at the Primrose Cemetery had been stolen. “Those in management at the maybe the cemeteries should be palisade fencing. facilities had been broken into and “The saddest and most municipality who have been privatised and given to a company “The cemetery should be secure damage done. disrespectful thing is the fi re, which given the task of making sure that respects those who have passed and have people maintaining it,” he “Piping and electrical cables was set in the storerooms where all the cemetery is secure, clean and away, those who mourn them and said. were stolen, the server was stolen, the records were kept. peaceful should be moved to other the community at large.” To make matters worse, Morgan equipment from the storerooms was “About 100 years of records and positions if they are incapable of Kletz also wanted to know was alerted to a fi re and break-in at taken, as well as numerous other doing their jobs. if the municipality would take the cemetery recently. items, including the kitchen sink,” “They should be replaced or responsibility and replace the “The storerooms, offi ce and toilet Morgan said. 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Themba Gadebe said: “In a case She discovered that fi ve clinics where a clinic becomes Covid-19 in Ekurhuleni have been closed positive, the community is for extended periods since the notifi ed and diverted to clinics in start of the lockdown. the nearby catchment area. “These clinics had confi rmed “Alternatively, and depending positive cases of Covid-19 and on circumstances, services were closed for deep-cleaning, continue to be rendered from in line with protocols and a mobile clinic until after said procedures. clinic is disinfected. “However, it is worrying “This protocol is to ensure that that many of these clinics were there is continuum of health-care closed for over four days,” said services without compromising Rasilingwane. the health needs of the The Wannenburg Clinic communities in the catchment in Primrose was closed and area of such clinics. reopened four days later. “Mobile clinics are on a Ward 36 Clr Wendy Morgan and Basil Kletz, chairperson of the committee managing the Jewish cemetery and assets Ramokonopi Clinic in Ward daily basis commissioned at the Primrose Cemetery, at another section surrounding the Jewish section at the Primrose Cemetery where the 59, Katlehong, was closed and to serve communities where palisade fencing had been stolen. reopened fi ve days later. clinic services are distant, and Rasilingwane said the therefore aff ected communities community were left with no get informed of changes in the set alternative to seek medical help. schedules.” Vandalism is an ongoing “The metro provided no On the issue of the two mobile clinics or alternatives to clinics that were closed, Gadebe the community while the clinics said: “Wannenburg Clinic were being deep-cleaned. was closed for the purposes of issue at local cemetery “While I understand that decontamination on the same protocols must be followed day. during this pandemic to ensure “Clients were diverted to Continued from page 1 the safety of all, many residents Germiston and Dukathole clinics history went up in fl ames and feel the metro did not put the for the day, which they obliged.” there is no way of retrieving the necessary measures in place to He said the clinic was closed information.” ensure health care could continue on May 1 as it was a public Morgan said that little fi res were in these areas. holiday and on the weekend of also started in the main offi ce where “The aff ected communities May 2 to 3 all clinics were not there are still records in the safe and believe the metro merely wanted opened, with services resuming she hoped that these had now been them to put their health matters on May 4. removed and taken to a safe place for on hold,” said Rasilingwane. “Ramokonopi Clinic is a storage. Rasilingwane said they are provincial clinic and they also Morgan said she has still had no calling on the MMC for Health followed Covid-19 protocols. feedback from the metro as to when and Social Development to The community was notifi ed and the exit gate would be replaced and implement proper support plans clients were diverted to Khumalo said she had also reported the fact that should a clinic need to close due and Goba clinics, including the chain and lock on the entrance gate to Covid-19 issues. Bertha Gxowa Hospital, for had been cut off . This must include a standby secondary health-care services. “A cemetery is meant to be a mobile clinic that can continue “The clinic PHC Unit was place of peace and tranquility where to service the aff ected area and closed from May 18 to 20, members of the community can be ensure residents continue to get resuming services on May 21 and laid to rest and their family members The main offi ce at the Primrose Cemetery was broken into and small fi res the necessary health care they MOU Section closed on May 18 can visit. Thus, a safe environment. were lit. Photo by: Wendy Morgan need. to 24, resuming services on May “The Primrose Cemetery is “It is time for the City of 25,” said Gadebe. defi nitely not such a place,” Morgan the cemetery, the theft of the gate and said. its replacement, the palisade fencing, “It is so sad, the whole cemetery is as well as the recent fi re, but at the CORONA looking so neglected and so much of it time of going to press none had been is getting damaged. There just seems forthcoming. to be no respect for the people in their fi nal resting places. “When is the municipality going to step up and put security and safety measures in place to protect both the Covid-19 living and the dead?” Small fi res were started in the main Hotline: The GCN has requested comment offi ce of the Primrose Cemetery last from the metro regarding the state of Monday. Photo by: Wendy Morgan 0800 029999 M268385GC28 4 COMMUNITY Germiston City News Friday, July 17, 2020 TAKE ME HOME SPCA in need of food and funds To adopt these, or any other animals, from the The Bedfordview and Germiston Germiston SPCA call 011 825 5033 or visit the SPCA is in need of food and funding kennels in Junction Road, Driehoek.
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