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Post date: 14/04/2015
The site consists of a formal cemetery (30x70 meters) containing approximately 300 formal graves. Most of the graves are demarcated by pack heaps of stone with small uninscribed headstones. The graves have east-west orientation with the headstones on the western side. According to Nkosi Aron the first burial that took place in the cemetery were during the 1950's. However. most of the current graves in the cemetery were interred as a result of the coal mine that commenced operation in 1967/8. Apparently a large number of graves were in the way of the coal mine and were therefore, exhumed and reburied in this formal cemetery. This seems to been an active cemetery with the most recent burials in 2000. Furthermore, and active offerings and snuff,glass bottles and oral history). This fact makes the graves very significant.