City of Cape Town deaf to plight of owners of Muslim cemetery
By Mthuthuzeli Ntseku
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Cape Town - Despite the public outcry in January regarding the derelict City-owned land adjacent to the Johnston Road Cemetery, the cemetery board said the City has done nothing to secure the area or remove the illegal dwellers.
The group of vagrants are allegedly using the planks supporting graves as firewood, and had been defecating and sleeping inside the cemetery.
The board said it now has to contend with the expensive and expansive responsibility of acquiring land, while still faced with great levels of vandalism and criminality – without support from the authorities.