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The staff of the IRBA also attended a memorial lunch during the funeral week, at which each staff member lit a candle in
commemoration while the informal IRBA choir led in song.
The famous poem by WH Auden was also quoted, very appropriately:
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
COntinued
GENERAL NEWS
Clean audit report award
In December 2013 the IRBA was represented by Bernard Agulhas (CEO) and Willemina de Jager (Director: Operations)
at an awards ceremony hosted by the Auditor-General. The IRBA received an award for a clean audit in terms of the Public
Finance and Management Act.