Heroes’ Acre Church Street Cemetery
The Heroes’ Acre is a section of Church Street Cemetery.
The Heroes’ Acre was established in 1867, and contains the graves of renowned citizens and public figures.
Graves that can be found at the Heroes Acre:
- Paul Kruger
- General Louis Botha the 1st Prime Minister of South Africa
- Hendrik Verwoerd, South Africa’s notorious 7th Prime Minister
- Andries Pretorius. General Andries Pretorius was reburied in the cemetery in 1891 and was known as the ‘eerste held wat in die akker begrawe is’.
The Church Street Cemetery is located on the corner of Stanza Bopape and DF Malan Drive in Pretoria. The cemetery is a vast green field filled with tombstones of diverse shapes and styles which are organized in rows. As this is a Christian cemetery, the graves are oriented facing east. Trees and shrubbery give the cemetery a calm feel. The silver crosses in The Heroes’ Acre are significant and distinctive of the cemetery.
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