House Jakaranda is a postgraduate residence that accomodates mixed (male and female) students travelling from all over the African continent, and indeed the world, to study at the University of Pretoria.
Jacaranda residents, otherwise known as Jakarandians, believe and follow Es'kia Mphahlele thought: "A community is often what we make of it. It realises its status through the alignment of individual and group interests, concerns, anxieties, aspirations and goals into a unified purpose".
- We focussed on preparing the existing framework for a layer of steel primer that would protect the frame for many more years to come.
- primed the whole structure
- started sanding and cleaning post box A, clearing the main opening of rust.