The desecration of Braamfontein Cemetery has been described as the biggest case of vandalism in the history of Johannesburg’s cemeteries.
JOHANNESBURG - The crackling of dried leaves rustling underfoot echoes among the dead silence that falls over one of the first and oldest cemeteries in Johannesburg, Braamfontein Cemetery.
Ashes strewn on the ground at Braamfontein Cemetery in Johannesburg. Picture: Jacques Nelles/Eyewitness News Alan Buff, who was previously employed by the city and worked with cemeteries in and around Johannesburg, said in his five decades of working in cemeteries, he had never come across desecration of such magnitude.
Dazed and confused, 72-year-old Heather Dosreis scours the cemetery grounds looking for the ash walls of her mother and grandmother. A box that once contained the ashes of one of the thousands of victims of vandalism at Braamfontein Cemetery. Picture: Jacques Nelles/Eyewitness News Another employee said he had on several occasions seen a man covered in red polish on cemetery grounds.
She said the latest theory, of an unscrupulous builder trying to secure the tender to fix the ash walls, is more plausible.
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