‘Tannie Issie’ cleaning up Karoo town

Jansenville pensioner transforms sprawling trash heap into pristine park

What once looked like a rubbish dump on the outskirts of Jansenville has been slowly transformed into a beautiful park through the efforts of “Tannie Issie”.

For the past 10 months, Isabella Cadle, 70, has tackled one small issue at a time, removing garbage, trimming back thorn trees and slowly allowing the natural vegetation to reclaim a patch of land...

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