Degrading the dignity of the dead

Residents too afraid to visit trashed Kariega cemetery as vagrants and vandals take over

A wall of remembrance reduced to rubble, tombstones knocked over and concrete and marble grave covers broken apart.

As if paying respects to a departed loved one was not already an emotional affair, the sorry state of the Jubilee Park Cemetery in Kariega is enough to bring you to tears...

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