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Although the battle is over ownership of land, it is also over contrasting beliefs on whether it should be used as a holiday and leisure venue or as a shrine where community members have performed sacred spiritual rites for many years.
Scores of people have flocked to the Bushbuckridge Nature Reserve to perform rituals as part of African culture and beliefs that regard certain rivers and mountains as sacred places of the spirits.
The battle for the preservation of sacred sites has seen the United Nations Education and Scientific Council (Unesco) intervene through various programmes throughout the world.
Unesco’s Man and the Biosphere Programme notes that sacred sites “are indeed the oldest protected areas of the planet and have a vital importance for safeguarding cultural and biological diversity for present and future generations.”
THE Red Berets in Thulamahashe near Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga, have opened criminal charges against an ANC ward councillor and municipality regional manager over grave violation at a local cemetery.
FAMILY S GRAVE SHOCK
Comments Two skulls found in the two new graves by family members whilst digging. Photo by Oris Mnisi.
A SHOCKING surprise awaited two grieving families at Thulamahashe cemetery in Mpumalanga on Saturday, 20 February.
And nothing could have prepared them for what they saw.
The families found human remains when they dug their loved ones’ graves.
One of the grave diggers, Sabelo Mathebula (30), said they were digging a grave for their cousin Vusi “Bob Marley” Mathebula.
He said the grave was allocated by the Bushbuckridge Municipality’s Thulamahashe regional office.
“We were greeted by bones as we dug deeper, but we thought they were roots.