Their project has now extended to creating a firebreak in the woodlands & removing alien species, under guidance of the local fire chief Ian Bezuidenhout & Nana Joubert of Pledge Nature Reserve. Given the ever-present risk of wildfires, the advantages are obvious & the clearances are now making the area less attractive to homeless people.

Using the local neighbourhood watch group as a means of communication, Tracy rallies her ‘troops’ every Monday morning & organises the weeks’ activities. In addition to keeping the streets clean & tidy, many volunteers have undertaken new planting around their own homes & have tackled the overgrown & unsightly banana tree at the front of Telkom’s Queen Street premises. They were delighted when Telkom itself stepped in to help.