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Juliwe Cemetery

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Juliwe Cemetery, corner van Santen Drive and Brian Street, Horizon View
25 September 2017

Inscription

JULIWE CEMETERY In this cemetery lie the remains of residents of Juliwe Location, established in the early 1900s. By 1959, the cemetery contained the graves of some 3 000 adults and 2 635 infants. African residents of Roodepoort West were removed to Dobsonville, and their location destroyed from 1956-1967, but they resisted the removal of the cemetery, which they insisted should remain as a sacred memorial.

Photo courtesy: Kabelo Mokoena (Sunday Times)

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