DA berated for grave dig

11 February 2016 - 02:58
By Sipho Masombuka

The City of Tshwane has berated the DA's Lex Middelberg for "callously" stirring up emotions to "score cheap political points" by claiming the municipality has desecrated 600 graves in Pretoria East Cemetery. Middelberg said yesterday workers had obliterated graves, damaged a number of tombstones and destroyed or removed some tombstones and shrines, adding that the DA had opened a criminal case.

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