Various entities combined efforts to clean a park in Athol Oaklands on the weekend of 25 July.
According to the chairperson of the James and Ethel Gray Park Foundation Sunil Geness, the joint team comprised of the foundation members, City Parks and Zoo, Johannesburg Metro Police Department, Pikitup, CAP Green Team and community volunteers.
“The joint team undertook a massive clean-up of the park near the Sandspruit River commencing at the Athol Oaklands entrance of the park. We were appalled by what we found including animal carcasses (goat and poultry), various forms of waste, including plastics, clothing, knives, stick weapons, a constructed dug-out, which was easily concealed in the river bank and served as a utility function for all sorts of unthinkable activities,” he said.
Geness added, however, that a lot more remained to be done in the area.
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