This cemetery has been closed for new graves, except for some reserved graves. Hours: 8am to 4pm daily. Maintenance programme is every 28 days.

Weltevreden Park Cemetery is closed to new graves. Visiting hours: 8am to 4pm daily Maintenance programme is every 60 days.

Waterval Cemetery is the first cemetery to be built since Avalon in Soweto in 1972. The new cemetery located on a hillside looking out over Midrand and Fourways. Providing an additional 200 hectares of burial grounds, it will service Midrand and Alexandra. There is room for 720 000 new burial sites. getiimage. jpg As with other Johannesburg City Parks' new cemeteries, the design of Waterval Cemetery incorporates the natural landscape and indigenous flora and fauna. The concept of Waterval is to create a natural-environment approach, low maintenance with water-wise plants and only low headstones or base stones allowed. Building of the cemetery included a comprehensive road network; storm water, sewer and irrigation systems; lighting landscaping and demarcation of grave sites; ablution facilities; fencing; signage and security and construction of an administrative block. Maintenance Programme is every 14 days.

The cemetery no longer offers new graves. Visiting hours: Monday to Friday from 8am to 4pm. Saturday and Sunday from 9am to 4pm Maintenance programme is every 60 days.

This cemetery is in Panorama agricultural holdings and now falls under Westpark. Panorama Cemetery still has ample space. There are no distinct religious sections. The cemetery will dig the grave, as well as cover it up after the burial. The cemetery has prepared graves, which may be used by people who need to arrange burials on the same day. A grave opening must be arranged 48 hours before the burial when it involves opening an existing grave. If people are not able to give this much notice, 24 hours will do. Maintenance programme is every 28 days.

The cemetery is laid out in neat straight roads with designated religious sections, including Dutch Reformed, Church of England, Roman Catholic, Hindu, Muslim and Jewish. The Jewish and Muslim sections each have their own entrances and, in the corner of the cemetery, is a crematorium established in 1932. This is the burial place of award-winning musician Enoch Sontonga, the composer of Nkosi SikeleliAfrica. Against the fence Bremfontein lies a section of Pauper's graves, which are unmarked. These were recently discovered to be those of the miners from the 1922 Miner's Strike. Not far from here are the graves of the once-infamous Foster Gang, who gripped the public's imagination with a wild chase and shoot-out with the police in 1914.

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To the north of Dobsonville, sandwiched between Soweto and Durban Roodepoort Deep, lies the New Roodepoort Cemetery. It is a pleasant, small, cemetery with a few large trees and a section for military graves in its centre. Soldiers who served in the Anglo Boer War are buried here with many graves dating back to the early 1920s. This cemetery services the area of northern Soweto and its surrounding suburbs.

The cemetery no longer offers new graves, except for some reserved ones. Hours: Burials are 8am to 4pm daily. Visiting hours are from 8am to 6pm daily.

The cemetery no longer offers new graves, although some reserved graves are empty. Maintenance programme is every 28 days.

Located to the west of Johannesburg, in the suburb of Bosmont, Newclare Cemetery was built in 1934. Servicing the suburbs of Westbury, Newlands and Riverlea, Newclare is a quiet location, ringed by gold-mine getimage_copy. jpgdumps. The cemetery is split by Maraisburg Road one side holding older graves, the other the Walter Sisulu Memorial Garden, Chinese and Muslim section. Most famous of its graves is that of Walter Sisulu, the former activist leader and ANC stalwart who served 26 years on Robben Island as a prisoner of the apartheid state. Though the cemetery is full, there is still room for family second burials and other non-burial options.

The cemetery no longer offers new graves, except for some reserved ones. Maintenance Programme is every 60 days.