Situated at the side of a Dutch Reformed Church, this has been made into a Gedenktuin rather than an ordinary cemetery, but a low-key one. There is a formal entrance with gates and symbolic perimeter fencing. Long raised stone-covered enclosures, presumably holding the remains of the dead, are situated in an otherwise flat gravel expanse. A rough-hewn stone memorial provides a dedicatory text and has a 1918 date. ‘The names of the dead’, a very large number of them for this was a camp which suffered a number of epidemics, are etched onto granite slabs placed on the sides of an elevated shape on a plinth.
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