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Concentration Camp Cemetery
Standerton, Mpumalanga

Date:c1900
Type:Cemetery
Status:Extant

 


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Coordinates:
26°56'59.73" S 29°15'03.87" E Alt: 1550m

Standerton cemetery has long neat rows of formalised ‘restored’ concentration camp graves each surmounted by a granite or slate slab, giving them the appearance of uniformity. They are in a separate area from the rest of the town graves. Within this and opposite the entrance and its path is a structure that looks like a bandstand but has sacred rather than secular purpose. Within its central area are ‘the names of the dead’. It is also possible that the remains of the dead are within or beneath it. (South African War Memorials & After)