Joburg’s newly dead to lie with Gold Rush ghosts
As grave space runs out, city reopens cemetery established in 1888
08 June 2025 - 00:00
The Hamberg cemetery, a forgotten graveyard in Roodepoort that dates from just after the birth of Johannesburg, is to be reopened for burials from this Thursday. ..
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