What remains here is a small highly symbolic Gedenktuin, positioned at the edge of what used to be the old showgrounds. Port Elizabeth was a small camp, and remaining photographs show its cemetery was quite ordinary. By the 1960s, a symbolic high modernist memorial was placed at the edge. It was replaced by the present Gedenktuin. This takes the symbolic shape of a barbed wire surrounded circle, with a bricked floor. In the floor is a metalwork plaque dated 1983, saying the work had been carried out by Rapportyers, a nationalist organisation for young people akin to the Scouts. There is no representation of ‘the names of the dead’, perhaps because so few in number.
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