Welkom Cemetery
Welkom Cemetery is a cemetery in Matjhabeng Local Municipality, Lejweleputswa District Municipality, Free State.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Welkom and Odendaalsrus.
Welkom
Photo: Caracal Rooikat, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Welkom is the second-largest city in the Free State province. Welkom is known as "Circle City", "City within a Garden", "Mvela" and "Matjhabeng". The city's Sotho name, Matjhabeng, means 'where nations meet', derived from the migrant labour system, where people of various countries such as Lesotho, Malawi and Mozambique met to work in the mines of the gold fields.
Odendaalsrus
Town
Photo: Meyer Etienne de Kock, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Odendaalsrus is the oldest gold mining town in the Lejweleputswa District Municipality in the goldfields of the Free State province in South Africa. Odendaalsrus is situated 9 km north of Welkom Cemetery.
Welkom Cemetery
- Type: Cemetery
- Category: burial
- Location: Matjhabeng Local Municipality, Lejweleputswa District Municipality, Free State, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-27.95734° or 27° 57′ 26″ southLongitude
26.68817° or 26° 41′ 17″ eastOpen location code
5G482MVQ+37OpenStreetMap ID
node 2270723767OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemetery
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