None of us wish to risk a criminal record or have a police convoy deliver a court summons or charge sheet to our door, say pavement veggie growers.
Nicole Jacobs from Cape Town said she started her pavement vegetable garden last year in March.That is the message from pavement gardeners who have elected to come out in support of Joe Nkuna from Theresapark in Tshwane.
Tshwane metro police department spokesperson Isaac Mahamba said they did not “discriminate in this enforcement”. The TMPD said the Facebook post on March 3 by Nkuna stated:"When I grabbed the overgrown street pavement and planted food, my neighbours laughingly thought I had gone palooka. Yes 100 metres of government pavement. Now I feed them at R10 per hand. I smile each time they pay me. They did not see me coming. Their laughter was my fertiliser. Taking the land is easy but working it my fighters, that is very hard.
“Second, our aim was to create awareness or to promote the concept and hopefully encourage others to follow suit,” she said. Local resident, Phil Moagi and his daughter Thato and the veggie garden outside Craighall Primary School.Nicole Jacobs from Athlone in Cape Town said she started her vegetable garden last year in March.
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