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BROADACRES DRIVE ASSOCIATION

GREENING

FOURWAYS

3000 TREES,

COUNTLESS HANDS,

1 SHARED VISION

B Y NIC OLA KILL OPS

t’s hard to describe the sight without a municipal campaign. It was a genuine Neville Willemse, representing the
smiling. Along the stretch of Winnie collaboration — the kind that shows what Broadacres Drive Association, summed it up
Mandela Drive — from Uranium Street can happen when residents, businesses and perfectly:
Ito the N14 — a crowd of familiar faces city departments pull together with shared
gathered early one grey Johannesburg purpose. “When local residents, estates and
morning, sleeves rolled up, spades in hand, businesses work alongside the city, we’re
ready to plant 3 000 trees. The initiative was led by the Fourways not just cleaning or planting — we’re shaping
Improvement District in partnership with the environment our children will inherit.
Within an hour, the roadside was dotted Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo, the That’s legacy work.”
with saplings. The rain fell in sheets, but Dainfern Homeowners Association and the
no one seemed to mind. In fact, it became Broadacres Drive Association, supported by The BDA and FID teams worked hand in
part of the story — one of those mornings local estates, sponsors and residents who hand with City Parks to prepare the site — a
that remind you why community still turned up in numbers. major clean-up that paved the way for this
matters. landmark tree-planting as part of a broader
“When neighbours and the city come city initiative to restore indigenous greenery
This wasn’t a quick photo opportunity or together, we build legacy” across Joburg.

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