Overview
    Identifiers
    Inventory Number
    2627CA45
    Site Name
    Ikageng Old cemetery, Potchindustria, Potchefstroom
    Site Category
    Record Administration
    Author
    sahrisprojectmanager
    Last modified
    Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 21:26
    Monuments & Memorials Recordings
    Identifiers
    Inventory Reference
    Primary?
    Off
    Site Recording Admin Comments
    907 Natives were relocated from Makweteng to Old Potchefstroom grave yard without any indication of date of re- burial, and with a specification of 7 integral heroes only. The architecture and builder are not on records.Purpose:Date Unveiled: Sayed Moinuddin Shahabuddin date of unveiled: 1936 October 04
    907 Natives unveiled date: not on records.Designer: Not on records.Builder: Not on records.Person/Institution Commemorated: 1. Sayed Moinuddin Shahabuddin.
    2. Rachel Legodi
    3. Johanna Harwood
    4. Lusibetta Molope
    5. Naomi Molope
    6. Petrus Moepi
    7. Jane Makouse and 901 natives buried.Recorder Name: Sidwell Thibile, North West (Dr Kenneth Kaunda)
    Classifications
    Monument Type
    Description

    Commemoration and remembrance of Tlokwe heroes.

    Original Position
    907 natives were relocated from Makweteng to Old Potchefstroom grave yard.
    Contains Animal figures?
    No
    Contains Human figures?
    No
    Construction Date Comment
    Not on records.
    Construction Materials
    A needled charcoal stones, concrete and cement.
    Pedestal Material
    Concrete and cement.
    Event Commemorated
    Commemoration and remembrance of the Old Potchefstroom Heroes.
    Unveiled Comment
    Sayed Moinuddin Shahabuddin inveiled by Shahabuddin's family.

    907 natives unveiled by the Town Council of Potchefstroom.
    Inscriptions
    Sayed Moinuddin Shahabuddin born on the 12th September 1922, Heroically offered his life on the 4th October 1936, in saving the life of his friend who was drowned near the Yokeskei river.
    In memory of 907 natives re-buried here from the old native cemetery, old Potchefstroom.
      Location
      Location
      Mapping
      -26.723524, 27.066759
      North West
      • Dr Kenneth Kaunda
      • JB Marks
      Directions to Site
      It's on the corner of General and de Villiers streets right next to barberton police station.
      Access details
      Open for public
      Media
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