RE-INAUGURATION OF GREAT TREK MONUMENT DAMAGED BY MAYOR
This coming Saturday, 29 May, AfriForum, the Standerton council member Rosier de Ville and the Action Committee Standerton will re-inaugurate Standerton's Great Trek memorial stone, which was damaged by the town's previous mayor, Ms Queen Radebe-Khumalo. Flip Buys, general secretary of Solidarity, will be the main speaker at the event.
In 2008 AfriForum and the community of Standerton succeeded in obtaining a court order to repair and re-inaugurate the memorial stone.
The details are as follows:
Date: Saturday, 29 May 2010
Time:10:30
Place: In front of the Standerton Town Hall
The Great Trek memorial stone, which was erected at the Standerton Town Hall in 1988 as part of the 150-year commemoration of the Great Trek, was dug up with a trench excavator on 12 April 2007 at the instruction of Radebe-Khumalo. The stone was seriously damaged and tossed onto a rubbish heap. According to council documents, the municipality planned on doing the same with the concentration camp memorial stone.