To celebrate National Arbor Week and Heritage Month Celebration, the City of Cape Town has lined up a special event on Friday, 30 August 2024 and Alderman Edward Andrews, Deputy Mayor and Executive Committee Member for Spatial Planning and Environment, reveals all on the Arts Round Up.
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Ald. Edward Andrews
The event starting on the Grand Parade and moving to the Cape Town City Hall and the Nelson Mandela in Cape Town Legacy Exhibition, has been planned in a very special setting.
Ald. Andrews is pleased that he will be replanting a tree originally planted by the late Nelson Mandela on the Grand Parade on 11 February 1990. This is taking place during Heritage Month when it appropriate to discover and experience diversity, which is also the theme for this year. We need raise awareness of our journey as a democracy, and our environment. How do we individually examine our relationship and how to contribute to our nation’s diversity and shared future?
The end of August is a good time to do the tree replacement, unveil the mosaic bench and a plaque commemorating Madiba. This is why it’s such a momentous occasion, and to use this opportunity to raise awareness of heritage diversity and examine our relationship with the environment.
The event will include the opening of the new Grand Parade exhibition, and the City Hall and Precinct guide booklet launch in celebration of both National Arbor Week from 29 August – 4 September, which calls on South Africans to plant indigenous trees as a practical and symbolic gesture of sustainable environmental management, and the joint Heritage and Tourism Month of 1 – 30 September, with recognition of this year’s theme to ‘Discover and Experience Diversity’.
And all this happening on the Grand Parade, opposite the Cape Town City Hall, Home to the Nelson Mandela in Cape Town Legacy Exhibition, in close proximity to the Caste of Good Hope and the Desmond and Leah Tutu Centre. That’s the reason for the occasion launching of the City Hall and Precinct guide booklet.
An important event that will highlight and add to this special part of the Mother City.
WHAT: National Arbor Week and Heritage Month Celebration – Ald Eddie Andrews, Deputy Mayor and Executive Committee Member for Spatial Planning and Environment
WHERE: Grand Parade, Cape Town City Hall, Nelson Mandela in Cape Town – Legacy Exhibition
INFO: E Mandela.Legacy@capetown.gov.za | VISIT | See also Cape Town Green Map
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