A vast Gedenktuin dating from 2000, it is filled with inner symbolic forms. These include empty coffins and serried rows of bodiless gravestones, while hidden within are the actual remains of the dead, contained in a coffin structure with a 1981 dedication stone. ‘The names of the dead’ are on plaques on semi-hidden walls within the structure. ‘The symbolism’ is sketched and loudly proclaimed on an explanatory granite stone. The Gedenktuin is beautifully tended, also on two visits inhabited by colonies of bees. There is a black camp cemetery some distance away with ‘restored’ walls, but it is now untended and sadly unkempt within.
View the Aliwal North Gedenktuin gallery here
View the Aliwal North Aliwal Black Cemetery gallery here
