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Graveyard
Viljoensdrif, Free State

Date:n.d.
Type:Graveyard
Status:Extant

 


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Coordinates:
26°43'56.50" S 27°55'27.23" E

Graveyard of relocated graves from surrounding farms being strip-mined for coal.

The Heritage Impact Assessments of Environmental Impact Assessments generally call for graves to be exhumed under expert supervision and remains are reinterred in consolidated graveyards as in this case in the remote locality of Viljoensdrif.

All truncated references not fully cited below are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon.