Heroes' Acre Church Street Cemetery

Afrikaner Heroes Acre & War Graves

As other reviewers have noted, the cemetery remains a little rough around the edges, but it is not wildly overgrown or difficult to navigate. There are several military sections and monuments, and som...

Breaker Morant

This cemetery is run down, vandalised and in a dodgie part of town. The whole place appeared to be locked up even though the signage and other info says it’s open 8am to 5pm each day. I took a risk an...

Visit to Heroes Acre Cemetery, pretoria

Cemetery appears all locked up, only by chance did I manage to push open a padlocked gate. Some graves have obviously been vandalised - the whole place is very, very overgrown with shoe-piercing pric...

"A man's foes shall be those of his own household." Henry "Breaker" Morant

Visiting the gravesite of Lt Morant and Handcock was on my husband's bucket list. En route to a destination 4 hours northwest of Johannesburg, we prearranged with our driver to stop in Pretoria at Her...

The grave of Breaker Morant & Peter Handcock

I walked to the cemetery from Kruger House Museum which is only about 500 metres away. It was daylight and I felt safe getting to the cemetery and walking around inside – no need for a guide. Befor...