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Military grave vandalised
KwaZulu-Natal's provincial heritage association, Amafa, recently issued a warning that military graves and battlefields in the province do not contain any valuable relics. This was following yet another incident of vandalism on a military grave, in which vandals smashed the Gloucestershire Memorial at Rietfontein near Ladysmith, digging up the grave of the regiment’s commanding officer, Colonel E.P. Wilford, who was killed during the Anglo-Boer War. It will cost Amafa around R8 000 to repair a marble obelisk bearing the regiment’s insignia and an inscription marking Colonel Wilford’s grave.