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Greening of the Red Location Museum Precinct

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The Red Location Museum in partnership with Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism, is planning to celebrate this year’s Spring day and Arbor Week in GREEN style, by planting 20 indigenous trees in and around the Red Location Cultural Precinct on Olof Palme Street.

Organiser, Annette Du Plessis, envisages that this activity will add a GREEN environmental sparkle to both sides of the entrance to the Red Location Museum on Olof Palme Street, bordering the Red Location Backpackers Lodge (where 8 trees will be planted) and the Big Screen Grassed Field (where 10 trees will be planted).

The 2011 current indigenous trees recommended for planting by the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry are: Pappea capensis – Jacket-plum, Doppruim; Genus Pavetta – Bride’s Bushes, Bruidsbome and Nuxia congesta –  Common Wild Elder, Gewone wildevlier

The Youth of of the Ward 15 Community, with the assistance of Ward Councillor Noncedo Ngqondi, have been invited to participate in the activity over a two day period:

  • Wednesday, 31 August 2011 – Digging of 20 holes for the trees
  • Thursday, 1 September 2011 – Planting and watering of the trees from 10:00 am

For further queries and pledges of support, contact the Red Location Museum receptionist, Nosikumbuzo Hoza.

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Passionate about Port Elizabeth and definitely NOT packing for Perth. Alan's ethos is epitomised in the words of Nelson Mandela; "I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the idea of a democratic and free society. If need be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." See more articles by Alan.