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4 unusual facts about Braamfontein


Grytviken

The writer Angie Butler discovered the ashes in the vault of Braamfontein Cemetery, Johannesburg, while researching her book The Quest For Frank Wild.

Sean Slemon

In 2005, he filled the internal space of the Premises Gallery at the Civic Theatre in Braamfontein with two-and-a-half tons of carpet layers, a work called "Uplift:The Mountain Premises." "By entirely occupying a space with an artwork, an act that must have caused a certain degree of inaccessibility and inconvenience, Slemon sought to probe the manner in which we attempt to control the personal and public spaces that we occupy." -Jackie McInnes, SA Art Times, Issue 8, August 2006

Top 40 Music Magazine

Published by Joe Theron, Top 40s offices were originally situated in Yeoville, moving to Braamfontein in 1985.

Westpark Cemetery

The cemetery's main Military Plot contains the Johannesburg Cremation Memorial to 69 Commonwealth service personnel cremated at Johannesburg's Braamfontein Crematorium during the same war.


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Frank Wild

He was cremated on 23 August 1939 at the Braamfontein Cemetery in Johannesburg.

Johannesburg CBD

Many businesses and people fled the Central Business District and surrounding areas such as Braamfontein, Hillbrow, and Yeoville for more secured houses or offices in the Northern Suburbs.

Rea Vaya

T1: Thokoza Park to Ellis Park East via Civic Centre (Braamfontein)

Sonja Schlesin

Schlesin died in Johannesburg in 1956 and her ashes were placed in a wall of remembrance at Braamfontein Cemetery in Johannesburg.

South African Class 16B 4-6-2

Of the Class 16B locomotives, number 805 has some claim to fame, since long time South African Minister of Transport Ben Schoeman started his Railway career at Braamfontein as a stoker on this locomotive during the 1930s.


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