cemeteries in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Air photo of a large cemetery in Soweto, Johannesburg. Notice the little square shapes to the left of the cemetery, typical shacks.

The cemeteries shown here included an abandoned 19th-century Protestant cemetery in Soweto, Johannesburg, three photos of an active Protestant cemetery used by poor Blacks in the wine country of Western Cape (very similar to cemeteries on U.S. Indian reservations), and the leper cemetery on Robben Island, Cape Town.



In northwestern Zimbabwe, dead parents are buried outside but next to family compounds: mothers in the back and fathers in the front, shown respectively below. Each grave is marked and protected by logs.

Air photo: Google Earth.