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    Where even the people bloom!

    Aug 26, 2019 5 minutes
    TEXT JOHAN VAN ZYL
    PHOTOS PETER VAN NOORD

    We regularly see, hear and read about the once beautiful pearls of the platteland that are now “going to the dogs”, places where municipal services are collapsing. Sure, in many cases this is no exaggeration, but how often do we consider the opposite side of the coin?

    How is it that some towns manage to remain clean and tidy? Why are visitors to some villages compelled to snap up a derelict house, fix it up and move in? Why do the residents of some towns come together to do something constructive about the challenges they face rather than snapping at one another, or complaining morning, noon and night about the incompetence or laziness of municipal officials?

    DARLING A change of heart

    It was on 27 April 1995 that satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys

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