Local businesses initiate a ‘Great’ Clean-up project

Shabalala concluded, "Please, please, please... Just do your part to make Vryheid great again. "Not everything is about money; most things in life are about common sense."

November 21, 2019

Carlien Grobler 1 minute read

Tea and cake were part of the festivities.

Lailah Gifty Akita uttered the words: “Clean communities, healthy citizens.”
Great Bingo lived up to this saying when it teamed up with Thokozani Thwala of Mlungu, to clean up the streets of Vryheid.
Percy Shabalala (Chairman of Great Bingo) told the Vryheid Herald the town had ‘a few immediate problems’ and needed urgent collective efforts to ‘reverse its misfortunes’.
Shabalala said top of the list was the look and feel of the town, which inspired the clean-up action.
He pleaded with communities to understand littering was no longer an option, since a cleaner business centre promoted confidence and order needed to be brought back to the town’s ‘business hub’.
Manager of Great Bingo, Simon Jele added cleanliness would help promote tourism.
He also urged the community to take ownership of its town and participate, in order to live in a cleaner and healthier environment.
Great Bingo and Mlungu used their own resources, together with more than 50 people who joined to clean up parts of the Taxi Rank, Kerk Street and President Street.
Jele proudly said certain areas were still in ‘mint condition’. Great Bingo and Mlungu are planning to have another two clean-up operations before the end of the year and Jele asked businesses to join hands with them.
Shabalala concluded, “Please, please, please… Just do your part to make Vryheid great again.
“Not everything is about money; most things in life are about common sense.”