West Park Cemetery
The West Park Cemetery (also West Park Cemetery ) is a cemetery in Johannesburg in South Africa . West Park Cemetery is a municipal facility and is managed by Johannesburg City Parks . The cemetery is one of the city's “active” cemeteries, so new grave sites can be created there.
Geography and usage
The cemetery is located on Beyers Naudé Drive northwest of Johannesburg city center and thus belongs to Region B, Zone 4 of the Metropolitan Municipality of Johannesburg. To the north, West Park Road borders the cemetery, beyond that is the Montgomery Park district. To the east runs Beyers Naudé Drive (Motorway 5) and to the south is the hilly terrain of Melville Koppies. The district of Sophiatown adjoins it in the southwest . It measures around two kilometers in an east-west direction and one kilometer in a north-south direction. The cemetery is administered by the City Parks authority, which looks after a total of 35 cemeteries. The cemetery is characterized by Jacaranda aliens.
At the West Park Cemetery, members of different religions or ethnic origins are buried in different sectors, including Christians, Muslims, Jews and Chinese. One area is reserved for members of the South African National Defense Force who have died on duty. 617 Commonwealth soldiers who perished in World War II are buried in a cemetery.
Known persons with year of death
- Herman Charles Bosman , writer (1951)
- Alfred Nzo , politician (2000)
- Joe Modise , anti-apartheid fighter and politician (2001)
- Brett Goldin , actor (2006)
- Joe Nhlanhla , anti-apartheid fighter and politician (2008)
- Helen Suzman , politician (2009)
- Arthur Chaskalson , lawyer (2012)
- Mandoza , musician (2016)
- Joe Mafela , actor (2017)
- Ahmed Kathrada , anti-apartheid fighter and politician (2017)
- Keorapetse Kgositsile , poet (2018)
- Hugh Masekela , musician (2018)
- Dorothy Masuka , musician (2019)
- Johnny Clegg , musician (2019)
history
The West Park in 1942 on a part of the farm Waterval founded. In addition to the cemetery, other green spaces were created, including the Botanical Ridge and Mark's Park on the other side of today's Beyers Naudé Drive.
In 1959 a memorial for the victims of the Holocaust was erected in the Jewish part . The 42 children who died in a 1985 bus accident at Westdene Dam were buried in the Westdene Bus Accident Victims Grave .
A sector with tombs of prominent South Africans is called Heroes' Acre . The cemetery is designated as a Heritage Site because of these graves .
Web links
- Description of the cemetery, document page 19 (English)
- Map of the 35 cemeteries in Johannesburg, No. 18 (PDF; 3.9 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ City of Johannesburg: Johannesburg City Parks at www.jhbcityparks.com (English), accessed on April 3, 2017
- ↑ a b c Description of the cemetery, document page 6 (English), accessed on April 4, 2017
- ↑ Description of the burial ground at cwgc.com (English), accessed on April 4, 2017
- ^ Reminder website , accessed April 4, 2017
Coordinates: 26 ° 9 ′ 49 ″ S , 27 ° 59 ′ 23 ″ E