The Pietersburg [now named Polokwani] Gedenktuin has a formal red-brick front complete with a huge War Graves Commission emblem and a magnificent pair of gates. Unusually, the recently provided explanatory notices also feature in English, including stating that the original memorial was unveiled in 1903. The ‘restored’ graves are partly quite spread out, partly in orderly rows. This is a large cemetery behind the formal entrance, and within it there is a small Gedenktuin area with a brick structure, memorials, and ‘the names of the dead’. This also incorporates casts of ox-wagon wheel marks, signifying the Great Trek reenactment and the wagons which visited the cemetery. An earlier memorial in the shape of an obelisk has in front of it a figurative memorial of a seated child.
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