The 73 dead Commonwealth troops were buried on Gun Hill but later reinterred in Primrose Cemetery, Corner of Cemetery road and Beaconsfield road, Germiston in the 1960s.
They settled in Germiston where in 1932 he worked supervising a stone-crushing machine at a Witwatersrand Gold Mine.
The underground railway from Germiston was used to transport coke to nearby Provan Gas Works for the manufacture of gas.
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Germiston has recently become famous as being the residence of Craig Gordon.
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The area forms part of the suburb of Springburn for political purposes, but is more commonly referred to as part of the Royston corridor,its location midway between Blackhill & Garngad earns it a position as the 'wee sister' of both of those larger neighbourhoods.
100 m: 10.29 (Germiston 2012)
200 m: 20.83 (Germiston 2011)
Transnet operates the Metrorail train commuter service, that connects Ga-Rankuwa to the Pretoria railway station and on to Germiston and Johannesburg Park Station, as well as to the East Rand, Soweto and Vereeniging.
Ken Gampu (born 28 August 1929 in Germiston, South Africa; died 4 November 2003 in Vosloorus, South Africa) was a South African actor.