CEMETERIES around the City are due for major restoration as the City intensifies clean-up operations.

However, a resident living in close proximity to Redhill Cemetery remains skeptical about the city’s plans. For years, residents have raised concerns about illegal dumping taking place inside the cemetery’s boundary fence on Ryde Place.

While the City did not say whether Redhill Cemetery would be among those targeted, deputy head for the City’s Parks, Leisure and Cemeteries Unit, Sibusiso Mkhwanazi said the operations formed part of the daily duties of the department.

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He said the unit’s duties include pruning of trees, removing rubble, mending as well as replacing broken fences in cemetery facilities.

“As a caring City we care for residents not only when they are alive, but also in their resting place. Our staff maintain the cemeteries, remove all litter which includes beer bottles that gets thrown by mourners during funerals. We have since intensified such operations because we want to ensure that our cemeteries are in a neat and acceptable state at all times,” said Mkhwanazi.

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