PLETTENBERG BAY NEWS - Bitou's youth seem to be set on making a positive change in their community as youngsters banded together to clean a local cemetery which had become neglected.

Bitou Mayor Dave Swart said on 13 March he received an email from Henrique Strydom, a Grade 11 learner from Wittedrift High School, expressing his concerns about the state of the Park Lane cemetery. 

He said Strydom's e-mail was not just a complaint, but that he wanted to pursue it as a clean-up project as part of the community service commitment that he has to do for the Mr and Miss Wittedrift High School pageant competition.

"In essence, he saw himself as part of the solution and offered an idea that we could take forward using the Bitou motto 'To be the best together'," Swart said. 

"Following the email, the date for the clean-up was chosen - Human Rights Day on 21 March". The project was followed by a further clean-up by the Bitou Municipal Parks Department on Wednesday 22 March.

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